Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

MetLife awards $11bn custody mandate

Insurance is an important sector for our Securities Services business and an area where we see great opportunities as the insurance business grows in Asia.

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

Hetherington is responsible for trade execution within Asia Pacific and has more than 10 years of equity trading experience.

Prudential to offload Vietnamese consumer finance business

As part of the agreement, Prudential also signed a new long-term bancassurance partnership with Shinhan in both Vietnam and Indonesia.

Blackwell Global Hong Kong acquires new SFC asset management license

The company, on its part, has invested in qualified investment specialists so as to responsibly advise clients on sound investment decisions and to help attain their financial objectives.

MetLife seeks to sell Hong Kong insurance unit

The sale could raise more than $600 million, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private.

BlackRock survey sees investors up allocations to active strategies

The survey of 224 of BlackRock’s institutional clients with over US$7 trillion in total assets under management was conducted in October and November 2017

Foreign Buyers Returning For Residential Properties

Most of them were probably kept a distance by the additional buyer stamp duty for foreigners, only a mere 5.6% deals in 2017 were made by the foreign community.

Bank Islam launches social finance platform, Sadaqa House

Khairul said the bank is utilising technology in its Shariah solutions to deliver a service that is aligned with the current digital trend.

Firms lining up to do business with China’s Alibaba

Money market fund success has managers eager for linkup

Aviva wraps up sale of Taiwanese life insurance JV

Financial terms of the transaction were not revealed.

Pension asset test changes have made retirement support more inequitable, says AIST

The taper rate is the rate at which pension payments are reduced once asset thresholds are surpassed.

Vietnam needs investment funds that back M&As

The value of the deals made by foreign investors accounted for 77 percent of total M&A value.

Chinese Firms Load Up on Opaque Investment Products

The volume was up 49% from 2016 and more than double the total amount two years earlier.

Asian markets build on rally as Hong Kong hits fresh record

Expectations are for a slight pick-up from 2016 following a string of impressive readings over the year.

Fidelity International eyes mutual, pension fund business in China

Fidelity International, which launched three private funds in China in the past eight months, said on Thursday it would explore opportunities in the Chinese mutual and pension fund market.

Global investment group enters Australia via local partnership

These opportunities are often found in private markets.

HSBC wins $8 billion MetLife Asia custody mandate

HSBC will provide global and domestic custody services to cover MetLife’s businesses in Australia, Hong Kong and South Korea.

Over 60 top execs from MENA markets drawn to the 11th India Rendezvous

Foreign reinsurers all over the world are drawn to India due to its business and geographical diversity and mix, as well as its sheer size and potential.

Hong Kong: an investment springboard

China’s insistence on political and financial stability has discounted efforts to widen Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” system

GPIF picks StepStone to manage fund of funds infrastructure mandate

These investments are implemented in the form of a “multi-manager strategy” through FOFs to “pursue fund investments and co-investments”, GPIF says in a statement on January 12.

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