11/04/2022
Rest revamps equities team
Rest's whole-of-fund approach is a total portfolio approach.
Alternative Investments
11/01/2022
Apex Group launches Global Compliance Solutions in Australia
The expansion of Compliance Solutions in the Australian market will help to address clients’ risks and concerns around ESG, AML and financial crime for financial services entities
11/01/2022
Singlife with Aviva’s Navigator Launches Adviser Insight and Resource Ecosystem
ELEVATEis launched 31 October 2022 in conjunction with the annual Singapore Fintech Festival’s Innovation Lab Crawl.
11/01/2022
MyNorth Lifetime solution wins two Plan For Life awards
Super and retirement
10/31/2022
Jones progresses green finance standards
"... There are lots of ways we can achieve the same objective, but what we are absolutely committed to doing is ensuring that we have a national, industry-driven taxonomy so that you can all get on with the job with sensible analytics and capital dep
10/31/2022
Investing into private markets would improve portfolio quality and returns
Doing so will offer investors an opportunity to improve their risk-adjusted returns and diversify away from public markets, says iCapital’s Marco Bizzozero
10/31/2022
Insignia breaks down its adviser movements
“Offsetting the departures during the quarter, we did also see some recruitment into the self-employed channel, with three new businesses joining Insignia Financial licensees.”
10/31/2022
Alvarez & Marsal steps up its ambitions in Australian market
“Australia is a key Asia Pacific market for our clients around the globe and represents an exciting growth chapter for the firm,”
10/28/2022
Philippine pension fund SSS to extend coverage to cooperative members
The SSS provides social security coverage and manages the retirement savings of private sector employees, the self-employed and overseas Filipino workers.
10/28/2022
Bahrain, Hong Kong alternatives firms form US$500 million Greater Bay Area fund
The Greater Bay Area comprises Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in China’s southern Guangdong province, with a total population of over 70 million holding roughly 3 trillion RMB ($440 billion) of investable assets.
10/28/2022
BOCHK Asset Management launches BOCHK All Weather China New Dynamic Equity Fund
The Fund is offered with Hong Kong dollar, US dollar and Renminbi (hedged) share classes, with minimum subscription amounts of HKD10,000, USD1,000 and RMB10,000 respectively.
10/26/2022
Mirae Asset Mutual Fund launches two new Target Maturity Index Funds
The minimum initial investment in the funds will be Rs. 5,000/- and multiples of Re. 1/- thereafter.
10/25/2022
Asante Capital Group Strengthens Strategic Focus In Asia
Strong Talent and Continued Investment in Hong Kong Office Enhance Asian GPs’ Connections with Global Capital
10/24/2022
Mubadala, KKR enter into a strategic partnership to invest in private credit in Asia Pacific
The Partnership represents a key milestone for both organizations, as it strengthens Mubadala’s exposure in the rapidly growing APAC credit market, while enabling KKR to significantly scale its APAC credit platform.
10/21/2022
Apollo targets Asia’s rich from Singapore in retail ramp up
“They don’t have alternatives to public markets that are much less volatile but give nice stable returns,”
10/20/2022
Colonial First State introduces new platform
"Over the past decade, we have seen a significant reduction in the number of registered financial advisers and a fall in the overall number of Australians who are able to access financial advice."
10/19/2022
Greensill Investors Look to Australia Case for Direction
Among insurers, Japan's Tokio Marine is playing a key role, with the main insurer of the Greensill funds not expecting to have to pay out anything.
10/19/2022
Singapore-based insurtech bolttech secures Series B investment to continue the company’s rapid global growth
bolttech has achieved rapid growth since its inception in 2020.
10/19/2022
Korea Post hires Brookfield, Macquarie for US$200 million infrastructure mandate
The government postal agency chose the Canadian firm and US alternatives investment manager Ares Management Corporation for a $200 million global infrastructure debt mandate in May.
10/19/2022
Malaysia pension fund KWAP eyes impact investments to raise private market exposure
KWAP, which manages the retirement savings of civil servants, had 159 billion ringgit (US$33.74 billion) of total assets under management as of end-2021.