Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

UK impact fixed income manager enters Japan

Affirmative Investment became the first foreign manager to register its business using the newly created Financial Market Entry Office.

Perennial establishes ESG boutique

Perennial Partners' broader distribution team and 15 investment analysts will provide additional support to Perennial Better Future.

PBoC Mulls Huarong Rescue

Distressed assets valued at tens of billions of yuan will be shifted into a separate entity called China Huarong Overseas Investment Co., the report said.

Singapore’s Temasek injects S$21 million into local fintech firm Nium, report says

Temasek, which had a S$230 million investment portfolio as of end-March 2020, has been actively investing in Southeast Asian startups in recent years, including Singapore-based ride hailing operator Grab, its Indonesian rival Gojek, and e-commerce company

AMP releases superannuation member outcomes assessment

Super and retirement

APRA and ASIC publish latest data on life insurance claims and disputes

APRA’s Life Insurance Claims and Disputes Statistics publication presents the key industry and entity-level claims and disputes outcomes for 20 Australian life insurers writing direct business

Bain Capital weighing bid to take Toshiba private - sources

Bain’s plans for a Toshiba bid are preliminary and could change, said the sources, who declined to be identified as the information was confidential.

BEA Union to launch China consumer strategy

Other fund managers have also promoted China's consumer theme.

Nippon Life India, Taiwan’s Cathay Securities explore cross-distribution

Cathay Securities CEO Andy Chang adds that his company is “excited” to provide Indian investors with access to Taiwan’s technology market, noting that the island is a global leader in chip research and design.

Singapore’s GIC in group investing US$234 million in Indonesia’s Bukalapak, report says

This is GIC’s second technology investment since January, when it teamed up with Mubadala Investment Co., the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates, to buy an unspecified stake in US software firm ThoughtWorks for $720 million.

Centuria to merge with Primewest

Centuria chair Garry Charny said the merger is consistent with Centuria's dual strategy of asset acquisitions and corporate M&A.

State Street the largest institutional manager

The total local institutional FUM across investment managers was $2.2 trillion at December end across 164 managers.

Two Aussie CIOs on top 100 list

Brake was appointed Future Fund's chief investment officer after then-CIO Raphael Ardnt moved to chief executive role, following David Neal's departure for IFM Investors.

Reassuring ETF role during market downturn

Contrary to claims that they exacerbated market movements, exchange traded funds provided stability and liquidity during last year’s market downturn, according to Milliman.

Indonesia mutual fund assets down in first quarter as bond yields rise, rupiah weakens

Capital protected funds, which are funds that guarantee investors their initial investment plus any capital gains, provided they are held for the full contractual term, were up 1.85% to 147.99 trillion rupiah.

Qatar Financial Centre Authority signs MoU with Labuan IBFC Inc enhancing

Asia and MENA financial sector ties

Retail investment frenzy a boon for Asia-Pacific brokers

Trading volumes multiply as investor activism spreads to the region

Atlas Wealth launches mortgage brokerage

Atlas advises Australian clients who have migrated to over 25 countries and has some 30 lenders on its panel.

Fidante signs on new boutique

Fidante will take over the distribution from BNP Paribas and rebrand it to Impax.

UniSuper tops MySuper league tables

Over 10 years - the longest performance measure in the report -- the top three performers were: Hostplus balanced (8.8% p.a.), Cbus MySuper (8.6% p.a.) and UniSuper balanced (8.6%).

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