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Asset Owners
14 Oct 2026
Seviora Holdings, Temasek’s primary asset-management platform, will integrate Azalea Investment Management, SeaTown Holdings International and Seviora Capital under one operating model and brand from 1 January 2027. The combined platform manages approximately US$76 billion.
Opinion
13 Oct 2026
Regulatory refinements in Singapore and China, together with platform observations, point to a shift from structure-building toward operating-model substance for family offices.
Private Wealth
13 Oct 2026
Cathay United Bank’s Singapore branch has appointed Barings Singapore as investment strategy provider to support its discretionary portfolio management offering. Barings managed US$502 billion globally as of 30 June 2026.
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.
Analysis
13 Oct 2026
HSBC’s India ambitions and Bank of Singapore’s South Asian franchise build are expanding wealth-management coverage. Regional studies on allocation discipline and beneficiary readiness suggest that winning assets and preparing families to manage them are separate challenges.
Asset Owners
12 Oct 2026
Mubadala has restated its intention to deploy approximately $39 billion annually while raising its Asia portfolio weight. GIC has moved to a refreshed investment framework organised by return drivers and is expanding hedge-fund allocations. Both moves point to greater selectivity rather than broad beta expansion.
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.
Asset Owners
1 Oct 2026
Allianz Research data put insurance and pension assets at 47.2 per cent of Singaporean household financial portfolios, against a global average of about 24.8 per cent. Net financial assets per capita ranked fourth globally in 2025. The open question for insurers and asset managers is whether that savings model holds as households move more wealth into securities worldwide.
Opinion
29 Sep 2026
IFM Investors, the Australia-based manager of global pension capital, has opened a Singapore office to originate and execute diversified credit across South and Southeast Asia. Near-term deployment into the region is targeted in the US$250–300 million range, with a longer-term aim to rebalance a larger private-credit book toward Asia. Part of the firepower is backed by an Australian government commitment into IFM’s Asia-Pacific debt capabilities.
Asset Owners
29 Sep 2026
The CPF Board will introduce a new investment scheme in 2028 offering simplified, low-cost, diversified life-cycle products from commercial providers. Portfolios will rebalance automatically along a glide path from higher-risk assets toward lower-risk assets as members age, with phased liquidation by a target date. Industry engagement on product specifications is already under way.
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
15 Sep 2026
Competition for Pan-Asian private-wealth assets is shifting from booking centre to a narrower test: whether an onshore bond can be pledged for liquidity inside the home market. Singapore has the region’s deepest published collateral stack. That is not the same thing as a live, multi-bank SGX repo network.
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.
Asset Owners
19 Aug 2026
The central bank has launched a targeted package of fiscal and structural incentives engineered to protect Singapore's value proposition. The measures seek to aggressively anchor alternative investment activities amid sharpening regional competition.
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
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
14 Aug 2026
The private banking giant has registered an extraordinary surge in family office capital inflows following the rollout of bespoke private market portfolios.
Asset Owners
12 Aug 2026
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is anchoring a massive international infrastructure joint venture to build dedicated computing facilities for the creator of the Claude AI chatbot ecosystem.
Private Wealth
12 Aug 2026
The Singaporean private banking giant has secured exclusive early access to a highly specialized global healthcare strategy to satisfy affluent client demands for liquid alternatives.
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
3 Aug 2026
As long-term real returns compress to cyclical lows, the strategic playground for mega-allocators is shifting away from static benchmarks; an institutional pivot toward flexible asset groups, multi-strategy overlays, and hard AI physical assets is redefining global asset owner deployment.
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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