Profiles & Comment | 11 Nov 13

Managing a special situations fund that essentially follows a multi-asset fund allocation strategy, James Sullivan, fund manager at MitonOptimal is in favor of making allocations to the domestic-driven economies of the Asean region, but at the appropriate time.

Profiles & Comment | 11 Nov 13

The world’s second largest economy looks poised for a sustainable period of economic growth and will be able to re-ignite it further, only if the Chinese authorities initiate big reform steps, said Douglus Turnbull, head of Chinese equities at U.K-based Neptune Investment Management.

Profiles & Comment | 8 Nov 13

The days of the all-expenses-paid expat lifestyle are gone, and shorter stints abroad have also become the norm. This has necessitated a shift in thinking for expatriates' wealth planners, Coutts's Gary Dugan points out.

Asia | 8 Nov 13

The deVere Group said today that it had acquired the Shanghai-based Elite Investment Group as well as the Hong Kong-based wealth management and IFA platform arm of the Precision Group Asia.

People Moves | 8 Nov 13

Praemium, the Australian Stock Exchange-listed, Melbourne-based platform company, said it had hired North Investment Partners’ co-founder Rebecca Murphy to help advisers and investment managers with their clients’ portfolios, out of its London office.