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Longevity, Health Spans And Wealth In Motion – In Conversation With Manulife
As part of a series examining the work of life insurers for affluent and HNW clients in Singapore, we talk to a senior executive at Manulife about its recent research and the implications. ...
ANALYSIS: Asia’s Life Insurers Flex Wealth Management Muscles
This news service takes a look at Singapore's life insurance market and the views, activities and strategies that come into the wealth management space. Here is the first in a series. ...
ANALYSIS: As Firms Open Offices, Secure Licences, Gulf Wealth Sector Is In Confident Mood
While it has been hard to ignore the geopolitical challenges, there has been a steady flow of stories about wealth managers, advisory firms and banks establishing offices, entering alliances and opening offices ...
ANALYSIS: Liechtenstein’s Cybersecurity Attack Part Of Global Trend
The incident, as disclosed by the European principality this week, is part of a pattern that continues to put compromises to privacy high up on the private banking and wealth management agenda. We list a few rec...
ANALYSIS: The Evolving, Widening World Of Concierge
Delivery models and client demands continue to evolve in the area that can be loosely called concierge. This news service casts a look at the terrain. ...
OPINION OF THE WEEK: Beware Of AI Notetakers' Threat To Confidentiality
Lawyers can put confidentiality and privilege at risk if AI notetakers are used in meetings – one of the risks of this burgeoning technology that HNW individuals need to understand. ...
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Italy's Proposed Exit Tax Will Backfire, Weaken Residency Incentive, Says Utmost
If the government in Rome were to impose an exit levy on departing wealthy people, where would this leave the country's flat-rate tax system introduced in 2017 for HNW foreigners? ...
Capital.com Enters Singapore Market; MAS Grants Licence
The business, headquartered in Limassol in Cyprus, has obtained a Capital Markets Services licence from the Asian city-state’s regulator. It has also named a CEO for its new Singaporean entity. ...
State Street Investment Management Makes Top APAC Appointment
The role, which is a newly formed one, is being taken up by a figure who has worked in the investment management sector for more than two decades. ...
Lazard Asset Management Names Third-Party Distribution Head, Asia Ex-Japan
The firm stressed the importance of its wealth channel and the growth opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. ...
ANALYSIS: Two-Way Street: Asia, Africa And The Capital Of The Young
The forces connecting Asia and Africa, and the wealth management opportunities that arise, are given a broad overview in this article. ...
EXCLUSIVE: BNP Paribas WM Continues To Favour German Market
Vincent Lecomte, CEO of Paris-based BNP Paribas Wealth Management, talks to this new service in Paris about the importance of the German wealth market for the firm, as well as opportunities in Europe and Asia. ...