Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Asset and wealth management CEOs optimistic about growth but aware of looming disruption – PwC survey

However just 38% of the interviewed CEOs believe that robotics and alternative intelligence (AI) can improve the consumer experience.

Australia Islamic finance blooms under the radar

The country in fact has a substantial number of Islamic finance service providers which offer a broad scope of Shariah-compliant finance products ranging from house financing, Islamic pensions, wealth management to halal superannuation funds and takaful.

PE Panorama: Where expectations and outcomes move in opposite directions

It’s also a powerful incentive for putting off the evil day when you finally have to come clean with pensioners.

Philippine Bank Supervisor Takes Aim at Male-Dominated Boards

The career central banker joins a growing global momentum to break down barriers to gender equality in senior corporate and government roles. In the Philippines, men hold 82 percent of the 265 board seats at the nation’s biggest lenders and some ban

Chinese banks sixth-largest global creditor group: BIS

This refers to a situation in which several countries borrow from just a few big international banks, raising the risk that losses in one country encourage the banks to withdraw from other borrower countries as well.

CISI leads with global “competitive edge” campaign to keep members at the top of their game

The artwork was produced by the CISI’s marketing team with support from design agency W3 based in Kelvedon, Essex.

Population of wealthy Indians to grow 71% by 2022: Report

The country is also expected to become the third largest contributor in Asia with respect to wealthy population after China and Japan, it said.

The Rarefied World of Asia Private Banking, Where Women Rule

Some of the region's most senior wealth managers are female.

Demand from investors drives shift towards sustainable business in Asia

Firms are upping their environmental, social and governance game as asset managers offer their clients more sustainable investment funds in the region

More female clients requires more female advisers

This sentiment is shared by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors which is again calling on listed Australian companies to consider the gender diversity of their boards.

BlackRock worries about China trade tensions as Asia funds brace

Equity markets across Asia have had a tumultuous week amid the departure of Gary Cohn from the White House and the rise of trade hawks.

"Life Insurance Industry: Riding the Technology Wave"

Address by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore, at LIA Annual Luncheon on 7 March 2018

This Is What Is Making Young Aussie Women Miserable

Pearson said NAB research found the greatest gap doing unpaid labour in the home – cooking, cleaning, shopping – was between young men and young women.

Australia's ultra-wealthy to grow 37pc on property, migration: Knight Frank

The buoyant conditions accelerating the growth in numbers of ultra wealthy globally will in this country lift the number of people with net assets of $US50 million ($64.5 million) to 1,720 by 2022 from 1260 last year

Tencent's Pony Ma overtakes Wanda's Wang as Asia's richest

Chinese internet bosses lead region's wealthy, India's Ambani breaks in

Integration is central to BTPN’s digital banking transformation

Given the growing demand for its bank services, BTPN had to revamp its IT infrastructure to support key processes, real-time intra-bank transactions and its internet and mobile banking functionality.

Not Enough Bankers in Vietnam

Making the situation worse for the domestic Vietnamese banks is the desire for bankers to ply their trade with a foreign bank.

Rancour behind the records in Asian high yield

And there is widespread disquiet throughout the industry about some of the underwriting practices that have entered the market.

Chinese banking booms in Dubai's financial free zone

All of the four Chinese lenders, namely Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of China, have their Middle East branches based in the DIFC, a financial free zone.

MBMG Group – Growing pains of the fee only approach

Looking at the industry take-up rate in Asia, Gambles is a firm believer that a big push from the regulators.

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