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Asset Management

Hong Kong people struggled to maintain healthy money habits amid the pandemic last year, resulting in a slight drop in their financial fitness, a new report finds. Nonetheless, 59% of the surveyed respondents achieved a return of at least 2% from their liquid assets, against the local inflation rate of 1.9% and a 15.5% fall in Hang Seng Index during the period, according to HSBC’s fourth FinFit study.
17 Mar 2023

German asset manager DWS has extended its strategic alliance with Nippon Life for another five years to enhance distribution reach, product innovation and research acuity.
16 Mar 2023
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Asset managers must make available separately managed accounts (SMAs), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-oriented products, and other portfolio elements that appeal to advisers’ needs for flexibility and products emphasizing lower cost and sustainability, Cerulli Associates says.
16 Mar 2023

Singapore banking group DBS and private equity and venture capital investment firm Heritas Capital have announced the first close of the Asia Impact First Fund (AIFF). The fund has now raised over US$20 million, led by anchor investor DBS, which committed US$10 million, and like-minded impact-focused family offices, foundations, corporates and high-net-worth individuals.
15 Mar 2023

Mumbai-based Bandhan Mutual Fund has launched what it says is India’s first US debt (ETF) fund, an open-ended fund of fund investing in units of overseas index funds or exchange-traded funds which track an index with US treasury securities with a maturity range of zero to one year as its constituents. The Bandhan US Treasury Bond 0-1 Year Fund of Fund offers investors a convenient route to create a US dollar asset that benefits from the relatively high quality, reasonable safety, and current high yield of US treasuries.
15 Mar 2023

Endowus, a digital wealth management platform based in Singapore, has appointed Hugh Chung as its chief investment advisory officer.
14 Mar 2023

Digital service provider Azqore has appointed Pierre Masclet as chief executive officer, effective May 1. He succeeds Pascal Exertier, who is retiring.
13 Mar 2023

Climate change is perhaps the most significant financial risk for investors over the long term, according to Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
13 Mar 2023

More female investors than men value sustainability, 9 in 10 wish to create more social change
9 Mar 2023

Singlife has appointed Citi and BlackRock to provide a comprehensive technology platform to unify and transform its asset management capabilities across front, middle and back office.
9 Mar 2023

BPI Asset Management and Trust Corporation, the wealth management arm of Ayala-owned Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), has rebranded into BPI Wealth. The largest standalone trust corporation in the Philippines, BPI Wealth manages 875 billion pesos (US$15.807 billion) of assets as of end-December 2022.
8 Mar 2023

Ocorian, a provider of administration and compliance services to financial institutions, asset managers, corporates and high-net-worth individuals, has appointed Novia Lu as business development director for Asia-Pacific as it strengthens its presence in the region.
7 Mar 2023

Singapore-based multi-family office Golden Equator Wealth (GEW) has expanded its market coverage and team of family office advisers with the appointment of Rai Rummaan Kharal as a managing partner of wealth and capital and Haroon Tufail as an executive director.
7 Mar 2023

Asia-Pacific’s Hong Kong, India, Australia tie for fifth, region’s self-made billionaires stand out
7 Mar 2023