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Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... to reach out to our region. We've got neighbours who desperately need renewable energy such as Japan, Korea and Singapore. We have neighbours who have huge decarbonisation opportunities because of industrialisation and demographics, such as Indonesia ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... International aims to tokenise money market funds and digital foreign exchange swaps with the help of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and its Project Guardian scheme, a collaboration between policymakers and industry players to enhance liquidity ...

Sydney to host global superannuation summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... concluded that Sydney is the fourth most popular investment destination for foreign investors, behind Dubai, London, and Singapore, according to Investment Monitor. In a joint statement, representatives from the attending super funds, investment managers ...

TAL taps ex-CBA deputy as chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... Super, president and chair of the Actuaries Institute, and president and chair of the Life Insurance Association of Singapore. King has experience in insurance, wealth management, superannuation, investments, and broader financial services - particularly ...

Alpencrest ramps up expansion, signs Aussie affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... small-cap solutions," Price said. The fledgling third-party marketer is in partnership with Nippon Life Global Investors Singapore for its emerging markets equities strategy and Chicago-based Elementum Advisors' insurance-linked securities. Alpencrest ...

Moonfare launches in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... equity platform plans to fill that gap by providing seamless access to globally leading top-quartile managers," he said. Singapore-based Adam Banks, who is Moonfare's head of Asia Pacific, said: "Our APAC investor relations team is in active discussions ...

Syfe bids for SelfWealth, ups BFG's offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
... acquired 43.4 million SelfWealth shares, representing 18.8% of shares on issue. Wealth management platform Syfe is based in Singapore and operates in Australia and Hong Kong. It had about 250,000 users at the end of September 2024. Founded in 2019, its ...

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... Briggs said. Notably, only 6.5% of overall funds under management in Australia is globally sourced, compared to 78% in Singapore and 90% in Ireland. "The export-led growth in these jurisdictions has been achieved through a political focus on regulatory ...

Franklin Templeton folds Martin Currie into affiliates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... a specialist investment manager within the Franklin Templeton group, run by teams located in the UK, Melbourne, and Singapore that focus on equities listed in developed and emerging markets. "This new structure optimises the combined strengths of Martin ...

Fidelity picks Southeast Asia lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Fidelity International has appointed Wildon Goh as head of Southeast Asia and country head of Singapore. Goh succeeds Sabrina Gan who left the firm in December to Goldman Sachs' client solutions group as head of third-party wealth in Southeast Asia. ...