Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

ICICI Bank ties up with Alibaba to provide easy finance to SMEs

Indian entrepreneurs who are members of Alibaba.com will get quick access to business services from ICICI Bank

Temasek to invest $51m in India’s Oberoi Realty through preferential share issue

The investment was routed though Tamesek subsidiary Aranda Investments.

Private equity players TPG, Carlyle explore options for $1.8b Healthscope stake

Healthscope chief executive Robert Cooke is believed to have met with several possible South East Asian strategic buyers of the large stake owned by private equity giants TPG Capital and The Carlyle Group.

The secret to investing in China: advice from the world’s biggest hedge fund

Investors should avoid chasing the latest trends and be humble

New Rules for Hedge Fund Firms Could Transform Australian Ssctor - AIMA

Australia has taken a decisive step towards its advancement as a global investment market

John Abernethy says market manipulation 'just going to get worse'

Abernethy was commenting on the weird movements in a range of small and large cap stocks on Friday afternoon just before the market close

Hong Kong Firm Seeks $350M in Messy Plaza Snafu

More exciting finance drama at the always dramatic Plaza: a Hong Kong-based investment firm, JTS Trading Ltd., has accused three companies of squeezing it out of a deal to buy a majority stake in the Plaza,

The Green Issue

Demand for GBs is mostly from institutional investors

BlackRock tips RBA rate cuts Australian dollar below US70¢

Australia's dollar is likely to drop below US70¢ next year as a struggling economy forces the central bank to reduce interest rates by as much as half a percentage point, according to BlackRock.

IndAsia Fund, Iran’s Middle East Bank form joint venture to tap investment

Iran has $8.8 billion of interest-free funds lying idle in India because of the sanctions.

Online Banking News: Ant Financial Gets Funding As It Opens Its Services in China

Ant Financial will be able to service thousands of shoppers online by providing an easy way to pay their purchases online.

Asian Crowdfunder launches in Malaysia, looking to enter Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand

Equity-based crowdfunding platform Asian Crowdfunder has launched its operations in Malaysia this month

Asian B-schools to form a consortium

To launch programmes in ease of doing business in their respective regions

Global property giant to launch Asian expansion from Singapore

A global giant in real estate management aims to use Singapore as a launching pad to dramatically increase its assets under management across Asia.

Mitsubishi UFJ to Acquire UBS Fund Unit

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will buy a UBS Group AG unit that provides services to alternative investment funds for as much as 30 billion yen ($244 million) to expand its administration business.

Activist investor Elliott set sights on Asia's family-run firms

U.S. billionaire Paul Singer appears to have paved the way for activist investors to fight for shareholders' rights where few hedge funds have ventured: Asia's biggest family-run firms.

ACE Life bumps up wealth management business in Hong Kong

The centre is intended to support the wealth management business in Asia with the offering of personalised consultation services for high-net-worth individuals and families, a statement from the firm explained.

Africa’s richest, Aliko Dangote, expanding his cement empire into Asia

Nigerian Aliko Dangote is a different kind of African role model

ACE Life targets HNW investors with HK wealth centre

The life insurer has opened a wealth management centre for Hong Kong high-net-worth investors

Savills IM teams up with Chinese institution for European fund launch

Savills Investment Management has partnered with China Minsheng Investment Capital to launch a European residential property fund

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