Infinity Financial Solutions, an advisory firm with offices in six key Asian cities, has agreed a deal with the London-based Bestinvest wealth management firm to exclusively represent Bestinvest’s range of investment portfolios and discretionary management services throughout Asia.
Less than a third of financial advisers based in Hong Kong believe recent regulatory changes in the jurisdiction will have a positive impact on their business, according to recent research.
Mainland China’s fund management companies have formed a new association in Hong Kong, with the aim of being able to speak with a single voice on issues of shared concern.
Unigestion, a Geneva-based institutional asset manager with more than $13bn in assets under management, has received a capital markets services licence from the Singaporean regulator, as it moves to expand its presence in Asia.
Vivienne Ng has been appointed to the newly-created position of executive director and head of Coutts International's China desk in the UK, in a move the bank says indicates the growing importance of Chinese-derived wealth in Britain.
AAM Advisory, the Singapore-based advisory firm, has launched a special division to cater for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and named one of its senior advisers to head it up.
Singapore’s life insurance industry saw total weighted new business premiums in the first half of 2013 grow by 24% over the same period last year, driven by "healthy sales" across all product lines.
BNY Mellon, the US-based banking giant, is planning to target American expatriates in Hong Kong, its president has told the South China Morning Post, citing the difficulties these expats have in finding non-US banks willing to have them as clients.
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An online guide to Investment-linked Assurance Schemes has been published by the Investor Education Centre, an educational entity created last year, as part of efforts to boost public understanding of investment matters.
The deVere Group has partnered with Hong Kong headquartered real estate adviser IP Global to provide real estate and investment services to its international client base.
Banks in Hong Kong appear to be turning away from the sale of Investment Linked Assurance Schemes (ILAS), following the introduction of more onerous compliance rules and commission disclosure.
