Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Savings bleeding out of Japan's graying regions to Tokyo

Regional banks paying high interest rates in hopes of retaining cash

Nomura Asset Management expands AI effort

This PoC is one of the first full-scale efforts made by a Japanese asset manager to analyze and score analyst reports using AI.

Macquarie goes to Rio with joint real estate venture

Macquarie already has a presence in the Americas, in Mexico, via the listed FIBRA Macquarie real estate investment trust and last year became a big player locally and in China.

PE Panorama: CalPERS to pull out of PE?

CalPERS has an allocation of just under US$26 billion to PE, representing just over 8% of its total portfolio.

Link in major UK acquisition

The balance of the Acquisition would be funded through a combination of existing cash and available debt facilities.

Harvest Global Investments first to qualify for Swiss-HK Mutual Recognition of Funds Scheme

The MRF scheme allows Swiss investors to allocate funds to Harvest’s China Equity and Asia Frontier strategies.

ING to expand deeper into China

Having spun off its insurance and asset management businesses, the bank now has free rein to engage such financial players in fund-raising and cash management.

QIC and Eagle Investment join forces

The new performance solution also includes a number of customised configurations to meet complex requirements and methodologies for reporting on international investments

UBS launches Asia ex-Japan ETF in London

The ETF is synthetically replicated, trades in British pounds and has a total expense ratio of 0.37%.

BNP Paribas appointed for first access to Swiss-HK fund connection

Deal will enable China-focused fund manager to access HK-Swiss scheme.

MSCI inclusion may only represent a small start but great things could lie ahead

There are still other problems or potential problems.

Yuan the key to expansion of Sino-Russian economic ties

An inadvertent beneficiary of US/EU sanctions against Russia, China stands to gain more by working to deepen commercial ties with its neighbor

China sinks $15bn into Ghana’s economy

The funding partnership with China, Dr. Bawumia explained, is not based on the traditional model of borrowing and aid.

MetLife Hong Kong Surges Ahead with Triple-digit Business Growth in the First Quarter of 2017

Our ability to innovate and stay ahead of the curve has been instrumental to our success.

Family offices partner for major US acquisition

The multifamily class of assets is unique to the US which accounted for the significant interest from Australians in the raising.

Bravura Holdings says FY revenue of $6.8 mln

FY loss $1.7 million versus profit of $3.6 million for 8 months ended March 31, 2016

KIC to open Singapore office to boost Asian alternative investment

“The Singapore office will serve as an outpost for our alternative investment in Asia,” an KIC source told the newspaper.

ICICI PruLife renews focus on health insurance space

As part of this proposition, the insurer has launched ICICI Pru Heart/Cancer Protect that pays part of the insurance cover amount to the customer on diagnosis of a heart ailment or cancer.

What Chinese investors think MSCI’s decision means for the A-share market

Although the initial weighting is small, leading most Chinese analysts to predict only modest short-term effects, it is still a landmark step in the opening of China’s markets after three failed attempts to join the index.

Citibank favours Asian equity markets in H2

Economic growth in emerging Asia is expected to be relatively high and interest rates remain low, which will support equity markets.

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