Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

A simpler, clearer Iress

19 years on, Iress has changed a lot.

Imran Khan isn’t alone. There are 10 billionaires in Pakistan’s parliament

Pakistan’s Election Commission list includes Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari, but jewellery and cars are not popular investments.

Duterte's Philippines Among The Best Places To Live And Work, Ahead Of China

One of them is that the Philippines has a reputation for sending its own people overseas in droves rather than attracting foreigners who want to live and work there.

Bracing for consolidation in Asia–Pacific banking: The quest for scale

To emerge from a period of potential consolidation, Asia’s banks must reinvent themselves or risk disappearing.

Goodbye golf days: How tech-savvy millennials are killing investment managers

This is the same demographic group that has the highest percentage of smartphone ownership and interacts with their smartphone more than anything or anyone else.

China Focus: China's globalization push gathers more consensus

China has delivered the message of globalization in WEF for years.

Singapore's GIC Has a Headache: a Spare $33 Billion

Expanding investments in public assets, where GIC already seeks to deploy the bulk of its capital, will be less of a challenge than doing so in private markets.

The Future of Impact Funds and Sustainable Investment in Asia

Over the past three and a half years since the completion of the Paris Agreement there has been a staggering rise in the number of new policies, targets and initiatives around the world addressing a number of environmental and social issues.

Demographic Trends Shaping Luxury in China

In the hands of lazy marketers, it can promote stereotyping and overgeneralization, while for the rest, it’s a welcomed tool.

Where will growth be fastest in the next decade?

See who is in – and who is out of – the 7 per cent Club

Asia’s Banks Must Brace for Worsening Storm, McKinsey Says

Slowing growth, fintech competition cloud outlook for lenders

Real estate funds deliver highest returns among 11 types of funds in Korea

Funds investing in local properties yielded 5.7 percent of return for one year, 38.6 percent for two years and 94.9 percent for five years.

Advice affordability a growing concern

Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said advisers were aiming to expand their pool of clients as a means of dealing with the structural challenges facing the sector.

Indian Companies Most Optimistic About Their Growth, Says HSBC

The survey showed that Indian businesses have the greatest investment appetite across the 14 markets and none mentioned any plans to decrease their level of investment.

Japan’s Banks Pinched by Zero-Yield Experiment

Market demand for the 10-year bonds has pushed yields well below the zero target; ‘like squeezing water from a dry rag’

Singapore's Wealth Landscape 2018-2022: Wealth Held by HNW Investors Will Grow Strongly Over the Review Period

The report also provides analysis of the factors driving liquid asset growth, including a breakdown and forecast of total retail savings and investments split by asset classes including deposits, mutual funds, equities, and bonds.

State Street Global Advisors Release Mid-Year Global Market Outlook: Look Beyond the Noise as Cycle Extends

Macro factors should, therefore, continue to support earnings growth but investors need to be cautious as volatility could easily spike given the significant geopolitical and growth risks facing the global economy.

China's Increasing Wealth Is Changing the Way People Die

As China grapples with more complex and long-running diseases that are expensive to treat, the shift is increasingly likely to drive up its health-care costs.

More gains ahead for equities, says State Street Global Advisors

We're getting closer to the time at which you do call hold on your exposure or your significant exposure to equities. We're being more cautious."

The Future is Asian: Can Asia rise to global dominance?

China is unlikely to impose either its traditional hierarchy-based Middle Kingdom or unipolarity in Asia or beyond, as other powers in Asia are also rising and can checkmate China.

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