As the Asian financial advisory market grows in size and importance, Singapore IFAs are embracing fee-based models quicker than their peers in Hong Kong, says NMG Consulting.
A survey by AsianInvestor and Clifford Chance finds that Singapore has the most pragmatic regulation for the funds industry, but Hong Kong still gets the edge, thanks in part ...
Barclays Wealth hires nine bankers in Singapore and three in Hong Kong as it continues to expand in the region.
Union Bancaire Privée, Lombard Odier, and Pictet hire new Asia heads as the competition for both talent and clients in the industry continues to intensify.
Ivanhoe Capital hires Jonathan Dubois-Phillips and Blake Olafson who both previously worked for Lehman Brothers.
Hong Kong looks to be growing in importance as a wealth-management centre, as regional private-banking heads set up shop and more firms seek banking licences.
The new chief executive will aim to expand Credit Agricole's private banking business in the region.
The US asset manager has hired Sharon Lee in Singapore to complement its duo of sales directors in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
After falling since June, ITG's liquidity indicator for the region rose in December, helped by growing trading volumes and a drop in trading costs.
The db x-trackers US Dollar Money Market ETF, which was first listed in London in April 2008, is now listed on the Singapore and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
Singapore approves BNP Paribas Securities Services' first regional wholesale banking license.
Investors should feel confident about buying shares of companies with sound fundamentals even if prices have yet to reach distressed levels, says Aberdeen.
Datamonitor analyst David Lalich says Hong Kong’s economy tends to be more resilient following a crisis and that has helped its wealthy residents increase their assets.
The firm hires Tim Mann from Fortis to sell fund administration to private-equity firms.
The Janus Capital subsidiary makes its Collared Long Short (120/20) Fund available to Asian institutional investors.
The bank's head of Asia research shifts from Singapore to Hong Kong.
Paul Roffey and Mark Wiggin cross from JPMorgan.
Harjive Oberoi and Peter Leung join the bank's structured credit trading and sales team.