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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.
January 12, 2023
Special Event
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.
October 13, 2022
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
January 31, 2020
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
October 04, 2019
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.
May 22, 2019
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.
January 23, 2019
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
October 29, 2018
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
March 16, 2017
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
January 20, 2017
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.
November 14, 2016