Chinese robo-advisers are likely to use data to personalise their services, bringing clients closer to a private banking experience, according to Gregory Van Den Bergh of Chinese fintech developer Micai.
Tony Wilkey is to step down as chief executive of Prudential Corporation Asia. His replacement has been named as Prudential’s group chief financial officer Nic Nicandrou, who will subsequently be replaced by Deloitte UK’s Mark FitzPatrick.
Asset management professionals share their views on the MSCI’s upcoming decision about whether or not to include China’s A-shares in its emerging market indices with our sister publication Fund Selector Asia.
The president of Indonesia has signed emergency regulation giving the tax authority access to account information held by financial institutions months after $333bn in assets was disclosed under the country’s hugely successful amnesty programme.
JP Morgan, Schroders, UBS, Castlestone, Kotak, SLI had funds among the best and the worst performers over the last three years. Our sister publication Fund Selector Asia (FSA) takes a look at the data on funds available in Hong Kong and Singapore.
China has created the country’s first court which will specialise in judging cases involving the fund industry in a bid to increase regulatory scrutiny of the financial services sector.
Domestic reforms and global growth are opening India back up as an investor hotspot and Neptune India Fund manager Kunal Desai believes this is India’s new dawn and the recovery of its corporate earnings is just the beginning.
The Financial Conduct Authority has entered into a co-operation agreement with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to support innovation in fintech.
The outcome of the French election has removed a key risk, revealing relatively cheap assets in Europe and Asia against a background of improved investor sentiment, industry sources told our sister publication Fund Selector Asia.
Chinese companies account for a tiny percentage of ESG-filtered emerging market ETFs, even though China is 26.5% of the MSCI EM Index.
The National Australia Bank has announced the sale of its private wealth business in Singapore and Hong Kong to Singapore’s OCBC.
Singapore’s life insurance industry is off to a strong start, driven by growth in single premium and annual premiums policies which saw weighted new business premiums soaring by 20% compared to the same period last year.
