07/13/2018
Coursera to offer transformative learning to Bank of Singapore employees
Coursera, the global leader in online education today announced its partnership with Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC Bank.
Comment, Analysis & Research
07/12/2018
Active fund management works well for debt funds
Active fund management offers many benefits for investors that go well beyond just security selection and beating an index.
07/11/2018
Singapore Banks Face Softer Loan Growth
Growth in home equity loans and a hot property market at home is a key driver of profits for DBS, UOB, and OCBC
07/11/2018
Follow the flows: Investing according to fund flow data
The data Commerzbank uses is based on 15 years of history and today comprises more than $30 trillion of assets, which are growing fast.
07/10/2018
Investors Have Never Been So Bearish On Asia Bonds, Survey Shows
Asia’s dollar bond market has been in turmoil since the beginning of the year as oversupply caused indigestion amid rising yields
07/10/2018
Building the Digital Silk Road
With the UAE’s strategic geographical position between east and west, companies in the country stand to be among the top beneficiaries of the BRI.
07/10/2018
Chinese HNW move toward wealth preservation
Most of China’s wealthy don’t even know that trust structures exist
07/09/2018
Lee Wong: «We're Challenging the Ways of Managing Wealth»
Many firms in Asia and beyond have failed to survive beyond the third generation
07/09/2018
Asset management in china expect growth
If China gets to 10% by 2030 it will be at a place “roughly comparable to where the US stood in 1990.”
07/08/2018
Number of high net worth individuals considering emigration down
From the survey, we can see that visas and overseas property purchases have become the new guarantee of economic security for Chinese HNWIs.
07/08/2018
Asia’s billionaire club balloons on the back of mega IPOs
Deloitte has forecast that Hong Kong and mainland IPO markets will raise as much as $54 billion for about 340 companies by the end of this year
07/08/2018
The long march of the bezzle by Tim Price
Easy money has a tendency to trigger what will, after the fall, become known as malinvestments.
07/08/2018
Private bank Europe boss defends bank’s culture after spate of resignations
She said the company does not have a ‘toxic’ work environment.
07/06/2018
The ties that bind: who owns what in China’s asset management industry
It is against this backdrop that The Asset is launching an interactive online database on China’s asset management industry – The Asset Anagram.
07/06/2018
6 major wealth funds agree to encourage greener economy
The document is to be formally presented during a meeting in Paris of the heads of the funds with French President Emmanuel Macron and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
07/06/2018
Central bankers determined not to repeat the financial crisis
Investors in banks will be familiar with most of these measures because they have impacted returns.
07/06/2018
Number of 'offshore funds' top 1,000 mark
Such offshore funds numbered a mere 92 in June 2011, but the figure has continued to rise, reaching 732 at the end of 2016.
07/05/2018
Knight Frank Prime Residential Review shows strong growth in Australia’s top end despite a softening market
Sydney saw 1809 sales above $3 million in 2017, up 7.6 per cent on 2016. Melbourne saw 871 sales in 2017, which was 10.9 per cent lower.
07/04/2018
The Case For An Innovation Hub To Facilitate MEASA Financial Inclusion
While many existing efforts are underway across MEASA, these are often heavily fragmented and make a large-scale advancement challenging.
07/03/2018
The Banker's Latest Rankings Show Chinese Banks Dominate, While Western Europe Catches Up
Western Europe's banks increased their share of global banking profits from 13% to 20% helped by strong performances in France, Germany and the UK and a turnaround in Italy.