Fund managers

Tong's Portfolio

What they do is not what they say ... why fund managers talk up to gain business

Many are still holding out hope that the economic slowdown-contraction will be brief and shallow.
SWITCH partner event IMPACT+ launches with targets of family offices and fund managers - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

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SWITCH partner event IMPACT+ launches with targets of family offices and fund managers

IMPACT+ will target ultra-high-net-worth individuals to expand Singapore's network of innovation ecosystem partners.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management: Investment themes 2020

Asian investors most keen on sustainable investing

(Jan 31): Investors in Asia have a surprisingly high level of interest in sustainable investing, says UK-based asset manager Schroders. Its head of sustainable research, Andy Howard, notes that this is because the speed at which economies are changing in

Tech

Smarter and cheaper robots are making fund managers sit up and pay attention

SINGAPORE (Oct 7): The word “robot” was coined in a Czech science-fiction novel in 1920. The term was derived from the Czech word “robota”, which means forced labour. In the novel, the robots were a group of artificial people who were initially ha

Asset management

Blackstone pushes 2018 global real estate AUM to US$3.2 trillion mark with a record-breaking year

SINGAPORE (May 22): Total real estate assets under management (AUM) for 2018 rose 12% to US$3.2 trillion ($4.4 trillion) from US$2.8 trillion in 2017, according to this year’s ANREV/INREV/NCREIF Fund Manager Survey.

Trade wars a key concern for local fund managers: IMAS

SINGAPORE (Jan 23): This year, Singaporean fund managers’ top concern is the trade wars, according to the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS) annual Investment Managers’ Outlook Survey.

Asset management

Assets of world's largest fund managers increase by over 15% to US$94 tril

SINGAPORE (Oct 29): The total assets under management (AUM) of the world’s top 500 fund managers surged to US$9.8 trillion ($13.5 trillion) in 2017, 15.6% higher than 2016, according to the latest Global 500 research from Willis Towers Watson’s Thinki

Is your fund manager a Hobbit?

SINGAPORE (March 16): Fund managers, just like you and me, have different risk appetites. There are the swashbucklers, who sally forth boldly with a few high-conviction bets in pursuit of riches untold. There are those who may play a little safer and main
Construction (Bloomberg)

Global Markets

Get ready for the Southeast Asian infrastructure boom

MANILA/SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): Manila’s Metro Pacific Investments Corp., Indonesia’s PT Krakatau Steel and Airports of Thailand Pcl are among the top investor picks as Southeast Asian governments embark on programs to boost roads, rail, ports
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Global Markets

'Trump Thump' whacks bond market for US$1 trillion loss

NEW YORK (Nov 14): Donald Trump's stunning victory for the White House may mark the long-awaited end to the more than 30-year-old bull run in bonds, as bets on faster US growth and inflation lead investors to favor stocks over bonds.
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