Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Super fund divests companies with all-male boards

Future Super divested from seven companies who had all-male boards, and all of those companies were based in Japan.

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

It has trimmed its US and Aussie equities exposures because it believes valuations are over-heated by artificially low interest rates.

Got an industry super fund? You've benefited from a Cayman trust

IFM Investors, the $126.8 billion money manager owned by 27 industry super funds, uses a company in Luxembourg

Singapore Banks’ FX Volumes Pushed Up

Asia’s private banks have enjoyed a 6.9 percent compounded annual growth rate over the last five years, according to data from the Asian Private Banker.

Nomura AM eyes China’s ETF market

The Japanese firm plans to join the China-Japan ETF Connect programme on top of having a QDLP business in China.

ASI sets Apac growth plan

ASI intends to roll out fixed maturity products and additionally, seven Ucits funds, mainly Europe-focused, have been registered for sale in Hong Kong.

Property slowdown a risk for emerging markets

The weakness isn’t universal with China’s real estate market showing signs of green shoots again, while low rates have supported Poland’s real-estate market.

T. Rowe Price's Bell sees upside potential in Vietnam

Bell, who runs the $276.3m Frontier Markets Equity SICAV, believes various elections

Urgency needed in infrastructure

He said that investors needed to consider the bigger picture, for instance the lack of development in Africa will have a huge impact on European life.

China's 'Goddess' of Quants Isn't Fazed by Global Fund Giants

She sees little reason to worry about losing her edge as overseas giants from BlackRock to D.E. Shaw & Co. expand in China.

HKMA Launches Green and Sustainable Banking Initiative

Climate change is one of the major risks threatening the well-being of mankind.

Malaysia's fund management industry assets down 0.33% in March

The SC typically publishes the data without providing analysis.

Japanese billionaire who bought SpaceX moon ride raises questions about his wealth

That comes as he pledged an unusually high percentage of his stock holdings

AIA to invest $58m in Philam Life to boost Philippines presence

The official said the company needs the $58m investment to hire, nurture, and teach from zero knowledge future full-time financial advisers.

Mirae Asset Daewoo Turning into Global Top-Tier IB

This year, the company acquired Tour Majunga in Paris for one trillion won in March and invested US$375 million in a new landmark to be located in Times Square, New York.

Hedge fund VGI Partners set to list on ASX

Prominent hedge fund VGI Partners will list on the Australian Securities Exchange but none of the three key players in the operation — headed by former Caledonia executive Rob Luciano — will sell any of their shares.

The give-and-take of BRI in Africa

Examining BRI projects in Africa reveals a nuanced reality of how the initiative functions in the developing world, where infrastructure financing is desperately needed, and political externalities are of secondary concern to the receiving states.

Canada pension manager IMCO to expand Asia investments, official says

The Asian investments are in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India and South Korea, and are mostly in public equity, Neil Murphy, IMCO’s vice president of corporate communications, tells Asia Asset Management.

Australia asset managers face rising costs, may mull outsourcing key functions, poll finds

The findings are based on Northern Trust’s poll of about 100 delegates representing Australia's leading superannuation funds and asset managers at a capital markets roadshow in Sydney and Melbourne last month.

Lonsec to acquire in-house managed account offerings

The firm said it was becoming increasingly difficult for advisers and licensees to charge portfolio management fees for in-house managed accounts.

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