The Philippines’ state auditor has flagged several questionable transactions by the Social Security System (SSS), including ...

Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF), which was established a quarter-century ago, has grown into a retirement scheme ...

Taiwan’s legislative body is proposing to double the size of the National Security Fund (NSF) from NT$500 billion (US$1.6 ...

Global household debt, meanwhile, rose about $4 trillion in the first nine months of the year to nearly $64 trillion. Most of the increase came from China, the US and Germany. However, the pace of ...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange has launched a technology-themed index which has been licensed to E Fund Management, one of China’s largest asset managers, for a new exchange-traded fund.

Singapore wealth adviser and investment platform Endowus has launched an income enhanced strategy that aims to provide greater downside protection and higher returns, and is only available to ...

Singapore asset manager Granite Asia raised more than US$350 million in the first close of its pan-Asia private credit strategy, anchored by three Southeast Asian state investors.

Hedge funds can do what their name implies – hedge against risks to protect returns in multiple scenarios. And the risks are in oversupply, given increasingly capricious and arbitrary US policy, on ...

Canada’s Manulife Financial Corporation has tapped Ming Lau from The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as its chief financial officer for Asia. Lau has nearly three decades of experience in ...

Asian financial centres are often portrayed as being in competition with one another. But Tokio Morita, executive director of FinCity.Tokyo, a quasi government financial sector promotion agency, ...

Pending Name of Fund, Location Amount Purpose Current Status Remarks Name of Fund, Location Amount Purpose Current Status Remarks CWMAA, Korea US$73 mn Domestic real estate RFP has been issued (Posted ...