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.
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.
Sisters Tanya Maher and Rebecca Regan are among three advisers who have joined Singapore-based AAM Advisory from International Financial Services, a local rival.
It's not exactly a secret that Singapore is increasingly becoming Asia’s wealth management centre of choice as well as the choice of growing numbers of individuals living in many other corners of the globe and this was reinforced today in a wide-ranging report by the city-state’s regulator.
Skandia International has named Jammine Soh and Huw Wedlock to its Singapore sales team, as sales managers, as it looks to “develop and expand its distribution footprint in Southeast Asia”.
From today, some forms of tax avoidance will be regarded as money laundering “predicate offences” in Singapore.
British and European expatriates in Singapore are foregoing long-term security as they opt for luxurious lifestyles now, according to a new survey by Standard Life International.
InterGlobal, the UK-based international private medical insurer, has made a series of appointments to its global sales team, as it seeks to boost its presence in such markets as Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Strengthening ties between Asia and the Middle East, particularly within the Islamic finance sector, have been highlighted in a speech by one of Singapore’s senior politicians.
From 1 July, Singapore's life insurance industry will adopt a new, lower set of investment returns in the materials its representatives use to sell Singapore-dollar denominated participating (“par”) policies, in response to "the current low interest rate environment".
A government official in the southern Malaysian state of Johor has said higher tax rates may be imposed on some 130,000 foreigners who own property there, the Malaysian Star reported yesterday.
