wealth management

Global Economy

Asia wealth management have wings clipped with bankers stuck at home

Already, the likes of UBS Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have seen the growth of new money in Asia take a hit.

Finance

Covid fears are pushing the world’s mega rich to set up in Singapore

MAS says the world's rich are setting up family offices in greater numbers in Singapore, as the pandemic brings to light their individual mortality and succession plans for future generations.

Financially Savvy

Raising the barbell in factor investing

Raising the barbell in factor investing

Family business

Singapore gets new multifamily office with launch of Envysion

Envysion will provide a range of services to clients from helping them structure deals to lifestyle offerings such as yacht and private jet charters.

M&A

Grab makes foray into retail wealth management with acquisition of robo-advisory Bento Invest

With this acquisition, Bento will be rebranded as GrabInvest with products launched on the Grab app in the first half of the year in Singapore. GrabInvest will be the fifth core business vertical under Grab’s financial services arm, Grab Financial Group.

Zest

Morgan Stanley plans to hire dozens for Asia wealth buildup

The New York-based bank is looking to add 30 to 35 private bankers in the two cities this year, Asia-Pacific wealth head Vincent Chui said in an interview.

Hong Kong protests

Family office advisers see rising interest in leaving Hong Kong

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): Service providers to some of Asia’s wealthiest families say they are fielding a rising number of calls about shifting away from Hong Kong, with some already moving money to Singapore-based banks.

Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy

Ping An-backed Lufax to ditch P2P lending amid regulatory woes: sources

(July 18): Lufax, one of China’s largest online wealth management platforms that is backed by financial giant Ping An Insurance, plans to exit its once-core peer-to-peer lending (P2P) business, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reut

Disruption and Digitalisation

More than a third of wealth management clients plan to switch providers in next 3 years: EY

SINGAPORE (May 9): More than a third of wealth management clients across Asia-Pacific have plans to switch providers over the next three years, the EY 2019 Global Wealth Research report found.

Commentary

Revamp of DBS Vickers a sign of things to come; can brokerages, remisiers maintain their relevance?

SINGAPORE (Mar 15): During a recent trip to Kuala Lumpur, I ran into an old friend whom I knew from my days in the brokerage business back in the 1990s. To my surprise, he told me that he still worked in the industry and appeared to be making a good livin
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