asset managers

(Jan 31): BlackRock Inc, the world’s largest asset manager, says it will cut exposure to companies linked to thermal coal, among other climate-friendly measures. It’s a powerful signal. Unfortunately, it only scratches the surface.

Even before the protests, there had been interest in Singapore from funds in various cities for a variety of reasons, according to market watchers.

(Sept 11): Singapore, one of the world’s easiest places to do business, is making it simpler for investment managers to register funds locally as the city-state goes after a bigger slice of the US$69 trillion ($95 trillion) global asset-management indus

TOKYO (Dec 15): Hiromichi Mizuno was named chief investment officer of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s biggest manager of retirement savings, in 2014. He has since led a push to increase equity holdings and advocated for incor

SINGAPORE (April 12): Many emerging market (EM) policymakers are still struggling with the hurdles of implementing the changes required to create vibrant and well-performing capital markets, despite understanding how important it is to do so in order to s

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Results from State Street Corporation’s latest survey suggests that  asset owners and managers in Asia Pacific (APAC) are not quite ready to adopt blockchain, despite generally positive sentiments of the technology in general.