fund flows

"When a large sum of money comes in to any country, you should be worried about it."

Equity funds still posted the highest net inflows of $563.45 million.

There is no question that Malaysia lost out on foreign capital funding — from both FDI and capital markets.

HONG KONG (Mar 11): Hong Kong faces the likelihood of rising borrowing costs after the city’s de facto central bank intervened to defend its currency peg for the first time since August.

SINGAPORE (March 22): Barclays Capital is forecasting Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 earnings per share (EPS) to hit US$129 ($181) this year, assuming that a 5% sales growth combined with modest margin expansion and continued repurchases will lead to 8% EP

SINGAPORE (Dec 2): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has charged Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Branch (SCB) and Coutts & Co with the respective financial penalties of $5.2 million and $2.4 million, for breaching its anti-money laundering (AML

SINGAPORE (Nov 21): In the week before, US$18.1 billion ($25.8 billion) in capital flowed out from bonds. At the same time equity funds recorded an inflow of US$27.5 billion, according to estimates by Citi Research.

SINGAPORE (July 22): Licensed money changer and remittance agent Raffles Money Change (RMC) has issued a statement in response to queries from members of the media, in light of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) press release dated July 21. 

SINGAPORE (July 21): Singapore authorities say they have seized a total of $240 mil of bank accounts and dealings in properties belonging to individuals linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) probe, with about $120 million belonging to businessman

SINGAPORE (June 28): The subdued growth in the global economy will cause further corrections in Asian equity markets.