Asia wealth firm targets outsourced services demand
In Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia after hiring from Towers Watson
In Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia after hiring from Towers Watson
In a bid to challenge expensive wealth managers
David Bellamy talks Asia, discretionary business, Neil Woodford and more
‘The only way to tap it is through partnerships’
CEO of Merian Global Investors gives his views on fee pressure and explains why his firm has no CIO
Countries on list of top offenders, which have “little or no enforcement” of anti-bribery laws.
Asia’s best opportunities don’t include standard regional heavyweights Alibaba, Tencent or Samsung First, State Stewart’s Alistair Thompson explains
Concerns about family-owned companies tend to be distorted and data shows they outperform their non-family counterparts, according to Jean Keller, CEO of Quaero Capital.
Jupiter AM wants to extend regional distribution channels, starting with moves into the Hong Kong retail market and into Thailand, according to Nick Ring, London-based head of global distribution.
EFG joins the consensus that basically expects a continuation of market conditions from 2017, and the firm maintains overweights on the US, Japan and EM equities.
What could the potential fallout be for asset managers when Asia’s regulators eventually replace the commission-based wealth management model with a fee-based one? Ben Cherrington, head of intermediary channels in Asia Pacific at M&G Investments, shares some key changes in the UK, which decided to make the leap to fee-based in 2013.
ESG investing moved on from simple exclusion screening long ago, said Karine Hirn, partner at East Capital.