The deVere Group’s founder and chief executive is to expand the Acuma wealth management operation he bought earlier this year into Hong Kong next week, as the first step in a planned roll-out across Asia, International Adviser can exclusively reveal.
BNY Mellon has been approved for a capital markets services licence in Singapore and has unveiled a new, Tokyo-based Asia-Pacific capital markets business, as it looks to expand its investment capabilities in Asia.
Singapore should consider revamping the way its investment fund laws are structured, to permit different asset management industry sectors to offer more variety and thus cater to a brader range of clients, a new PwC white paper says.
Standard Life Investments has set up a new office in Hong Kong as part of its on-going Asian expansion plan and in order to make the region its Asia Pacific hub.
The deVere Group said today that it had acquired the Shanghai-based Elite Investment Group as well as the Hong Kong-based wealth management and IFA platform arm of the Precision Group Asia.
By 2020, Asia is likely to account for almost 40% of the global market with annual growth of about 8% a year, according to Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
The Securities and Exchange Commission Thailand, Association of Provident Fund (AOP) and Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC) have collaborated to develop an Accredited Provident Fund Committee Members Program (APC).
Gottex Fund Management Holdings, an independent global alternative asset management group, has established a joint venture with Shanghai-based private manager VStone Asset Management.
Though Asia's reinsurance market is still bustling with confidence, the outlook on pricing and profitability for the next twelve months is slightly waning, revealed the first Asia Reinsurance Barometer, published by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority.
Ignis Asset Management has formed a strategic alliance in Australia with Sydney-based asset manager, Tyndall Investment Management.
Asia has topped an annual survey as the best place to live as an expatriate, with Thailand topping the list of destinations for “expat experience”.
Malaysia’s Malayan Banking Berhad has launched an Islamic asset management company offering Islamic Asian-focused investment capabilities to global investors.
