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Private Wealth
14 Oct 2026
Five Hong Kong family offices have jointly launched Inspira, a closed-end US$100 million fund focused on private credit and stable-income projects. The vehicle targets affluent families considering residency under the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme.
Private Wealth
13 Oct 2026
EAMs now manage a measurable share of wealth in Singapore and Hong Kong, yet the majority of firms remain below the US$1 billion threshold while platform infrastructure continues to expand.
Private Wealth
12 Oct 2026
Senior investment leadership appointments at HSBC, Amundi, Indosuez and UBS are concentrating multi-asset and discretionary decision-making capacity in the Singapore–Hong Kong corridor, reshaping how private banks structure investment oversight for UHNW and institutional clients.
Private Wealth
9 Oct 2026
Asian family offices are accelerating a structural transition away from informal deal-making toward formalized investment committees and rigorous operational governance.
Private Wealth
8 Oct 2026
Standard Chartered has launched its tenth sub-fund under the Variable Capital Company platform, an enhanced cash management strategy managed by Insight Investment within BNY Investments. The platform has accumulated $2.6 billion in assets under management since its 2024 inception and now forms a core delivery channel for differentiated solutions to the bank’s affluent and high-net-worth clients across Asia and selected international markets.
Private Wealth
2 Oct 2026
HSBC Private Bank’s Global Entrepreneurial Wealth Report 2026 finds about seven in ten Hong Kong entrepreneurs plan to invest 11 to 30 per cent of annual turnover in artificial intelligence over the next twelve months, above the global share. Most have already adjusted operations for AI. The private-bank question is how that corporate spend sits next to personal portfolio construction.
Asset Owners
2 Oct 2026
Across the region, sovereign, pension and insurance balance sheets are treating gold as portfolio infrastructure: Hong Kong is deepening market plumbing and MPF access paths, Korea has widened reserve implementation tools, and Japanese institutional investors are looking beyond domestic bonds and currency risk. The common theme is diversification under a wider set of macro outcomes.
Private Wealth
25 Sep 2026
A Bloomberg Intelligence survey of 100 senior private bankers in Hong Kong and Singapore finds more respondents expecting double-digit annual net new money growth over the next five years than in the prior survey. Mainland diversification demand and emerging wealth from Southeast Asia and the Middle East are the named drivers. Regulatory noise from the mainland is widely expected to have only a mild effect on flows.
Private Wealth
23 Sep 2026
Marco Pagliara, head of emerging markets at Deutsche Bank Private Bank, said this week that Hong Kong has been the best-performing region in that franchise in 2026, with visible activity in high-end real estate that often carries a Chinese client link. South-east Asia is running close behind. The investment question is where UHNW liquidity and leverage are being put to work.
Opinion
23 Sep 2026
UOB has earmarked about S$800 million over five years to grow its private bank, including people and technology. Chew Mun Yew, head of the private bank, said the plan includes adding about 50 relationship managers a year and developing Hong Kong capability, with offshore clients from Hong Kong, Japan and Korea in scope. The analytical point is franchise build versus waiting for consolidated books.
Private Wealth
22 Sep 2026
Public reporting in mid-September described a sale process for Barclays’ Hong Kong and Singapore private-wealth units, with Singapore banks named as the remaining contenders and no signed transaction disclosed. The investment story is consolidation of private-banking client books in the two cities, not a new product launch.
Private Wealth
18 Sep 2026
The 16 September Policy Address and first 2026–2030 plan put family offices, sovereigns and tax optimisation in the official pipeline. The bill that would loosen FIHV remains before LegCo. Singapore’s SFO class exemption is already live.
Private Wealth
17 Sep 2026
Pictet’s Hong Kong-domiciled Strategic Income Fund has grown to $5.1 billion from $1.6 billion at the start of 2026. About 60 per cent of that book arrived from mainland China through the Mutual Recognition of Funds channel. The investment mix in the August note included US Treasuries, gold, and listed US technology.
Opinion
7 Sep 2026
The regulatory authority's aggressive compliance warning targets undocumented digital yield programs. Financial fiduciaries who confuse high headline yields with absolute capital safety are mispricing severe cross-border liquidation traps.
Asset Owners
4 Sep 2026
The wealth management group's deep integration into modernized cross-border tracking infrastructure establishes an operational barrier. Key intermediaries are leveraging unified look-through systems to anchor client books.
Asset Owners
2 Sep 2026
The inaugural APAC Living Investor Survey highlights an intense structural realignment across property portfolios. Major asset owners are aggressively bypassing standard commercial office blocks to back conversion-led alternative assets.
Private Wealth
2 Sep 2026
The competitive battle for Greater China client registries is driving an intense shift in private banking fee models. By moving away from legacy asset-based pricing to deploy flat-fee performance hurdles, relationship desks are fighting boutique attrition.
Private Wealth
1 Sep 2026
The leading multi-family office's creation of a central Chief Investment Officer seat signals a major strategic pivot. Elite wealth hubs are aggressively consolidating cross-border management trees to shield portfolios from regional allocation volatility.
Asset Owners
31 Aug 2026
The massive capital exit executed by Wheelock Marden Capital exposes a structural liquidity crunch across regional family offices. Long-duration allocators are rapidly trading legacy tech fund stakes for direct cash certainty.
Private Wealth
21 Aug 2026
The asset management titan has unveiled a specialized infrastructure track to distribute private market alternatives. The platform explicitly targets rising multi-family office capital routing across regional hubs.
Private Wealth
19 Aug 2026
A sweeping legislative tax exemption bill submitted to local lawmakers has set off an intensive restructuring wave among regional wealth managers and single-family offices. The updated regulatory framework slashes historical qualifying barriers, allowing private bank-backed external asset managers to capture immediate carried interest tax windfalls.
Asset Owners
19 Aug 2026
The National Financial Regulatory Administration has formally authorised mainland Chinese insurers to deploy long-duration retirement assets into Hong Kong-listed exchange-traded funds. The programmatic policy shift leverages established cross-border trading infrastructure to unlock massive institutional liquidity pools and modernise state pension asset allocation frameworks across the Greater Bay Area.
Private Wealth
18 Aug 2026
Agile multi-family offices and private land banking syndicates are aggressively deploying opportunistic cash reserves to acquire prime, distressed urban real estate parcels across the primary Asia-Pacific wealth corridors.
Private Wealth
29 Jul 2026
The 160-year-old insurer is consolidating its Bermuda, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai high-net-worth operations into a single intake, underwriting and servicing architecture - betting that cross-border families will reward a single point of coordination over fragmented product distribution.
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