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Asset Owners
29 Oct 2026
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has reminded banks to manage material environmental risks tied to pollution and deforestation, including those linked to transboundary haze.
Asset Owners
29 Oct 2026
The Bank of Thailand's Monetary Policy Committee held the one-day repurchase rate at 1.00 per cent on 28 October 2026, a unanimous fourth pause after 150 basis points of cuts, leaving the baht cash benchmark unchanged.
Asset Owners
29 Oct 2026
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has raised its dedicated RMB repo facility to RMB22 billion and designated 12 banks as Primary Liquidity Providers for two years from October 2026. The release sets out those operational parameters. It does not price hedges or resize investor holdings.
Analysis
28 Oct 2026
Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand have joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore-led BLOOM initiative as policymaker members, extending coordinated work on acceptance, settlement and interoperability of tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins across three jurisdictions.
Private Wealth
27 Oct 2026
The Securities and Futures Commission authorisation of around-the-clock secondary trading for two tokenised money market funds on a licensed virtual asset trading platform opens fresh liquidity channels for family offices and wealth managers across Asia-Pacific.
Private Wealth
22 Oct 2026
Investors with UBS discretionary mandates booked in Singapore and Hong Kong are putting US equity concentration on the 2027 fee ticket. No single-name ceiling is available outside the client agreement.
Asset Owners
22 Oct 2026
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund will let its published policy mix, not a tactical view, decide manager fees, currency treatment and illiquid capacity through March 2027.
Private Wealth
20 Oct 2026
As Asia-Pacific private banks and family offices set 2027 mandates, the choice that governs investor outcomes is the reference currency and the hedge policy beside it. Pictet's published beliefs treat that currency as a significant influence on allocation and construction, not as a starting line in a published sequence. No 2027 Asia-Pacific model weight should be inferred.
Analysis
19 Oct 2026
Net foreign sales of bonds in five Asian markets reached US$8.21 billion in September, the largest month since March 2020, while equities also saw heavy withdrawals. For investors, the issue is how to hold duration, liquidity and peer risk against a much higher US yield.
Private Wealth
19 Oct 2026
Malaysia and Taiwan have widened formal family-office pathways, Korean platforms are either scaling or deliberately gating capacity, and Hong Kong family offices have launched a vehicle aimed at residency-scheme capital. Read with commentary on Singapore and China, the week's record is about operating standards as well as asset growth.
Private Wealth
15 Oct 2026
Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission has converted the Kaohsiung family-office pilot into a permanent nationwide regime. Eleven banks that have completed at least one year of pilot operation may now apply to expand. The decision removes a geographic constraint and clarifies the regulatory pathway for high-asset advisory capacity across the island.
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.
Opinion
9 Oct 2026
Private credit markets across the Asia-Pacific region are navigating a period of intense structural evolution, characterized by robust capital deployment and tightening yield spreads.
Analysis
8 Oct 2026
Southeast Asian institutional investors are accelerating capital deployments into regional private credit structures, driven by evolving central bank regulatory guidelines and demand for floating-rate yield buffers.
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.
Asset Owners
5 Oct 2026
South Korean authorities are leaning toward retaining the 70 per cent cap on risky assets in retirement pensions. Market volatility has slowed a reform push that had aimed to give savers more room. For managers, the near-term product and allocation story stays inside the existing framework.
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.
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.
Private Wealth
3 Sep 2026
The central bank's aggressive push to regulate single-currency digital assets introduces severe compliance parameters. Key intermediaries must adjust their custody models to defend client books against structural wind-down mandates.
Private Wealth
31 Aug 2026
The historic reliance on complex corporate structural opacity is hitting a wall of total transparency. Global asset managers who continue to treat administrative barriers as active risk shields are mispricing the systemic downside of modern compliance enforcement.
Opinion
28 Aug 2026
As global investment managers deploy unified risk engines to satisfy look-through compliance metrics, smaller domestic firms face immediate structural layout disadvantages.
Asset Owners
25 Aug 2026
As Bank Negara Malaysia enforces strict climate risk reporting requirements, regional insurance operators weaponise targeted infrastructure bonds to protect core long-duration liability portfolios.
Asset Owners
21 Aug 2026
The insurance conglomerate is actively restructuring its multi-billion-dollar fixed-income matrix under look-through regulatory parameters. The shift redirects premium liquid cash into specialized alternative debt instruments to insulate yields.
Opinion
21 Aug 2026
An unprecedented structural alliance between top-tier tech architecture and the world's largest credit managers is redefining alternative asset classes. The sudden capital mobilisation reveals an intense infrastructure allocation gap across institutional portfolios.
Asset Owners
20 Aug 2026
A massive portfolio reallocation is accelerating across regional insurance general accounts as state-backed pension desks look beyond listed fixed-income markets. The migration targets senior corporate lending and alternative credit tranches.
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.
Private Wealth
17 Aug 2026
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has finalized its revised regulatory architecture for single-family offices operating within the jurisdiction. The structural shift introduces a streamlined class exemption framework alongside aggressively tightened source-of-wealth compliance reporting matrices.
Private Wealth
11 Aug 2026
Singapore’s central bank is accelerating regulatory approval mechanics for complex fund structures to democratise liquid alternative distribution across regional wealth networks.
Asset Owners
11 Aug 2026
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has recorded a historic performance milestone while state officials move to grant the sovereign entity broader investment boundary permissions.
Opinion
10 Aug 2026
The systematic removal of over six hundred small-cap companies from the benchmark Tokyo Stock Price Index acts as an unprecedented regulatory catalyst, forcing regional asset managers to abandon passive index tracking and deploy aggressive corporate governance strategies to unlock trapped equity value.
Private Wealth
6 Aug 2026
Targeting institutional-grade real-world asset tokenization, Nomura’s digital asset arm has backed ZIGChain to construct a specialized onchain financial infrastructure for alternative investments.
Private Wealth
5 Aug 2026
A major regulatory disclosure by the dairy giant reveals how large-cap Chinese enterprises are bypassing standard deposits to capture yields up to 2.55% via sophisticated fixed-income wealth management wrappers.
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