Wealth & Investing

RETHINKING MATTERS

Trading in the ‘Year of Geopolitics’

Asian investors should take a more nuanced approach than either pure complacency or panic selling

HSBC's new wealth centre spans 7,884 sq ft and is designed to "deliver a personalised and premium banking experience".

HSBC opens wealth centre at Singapore Land Tower amid premium pivot

It is the bank’s fourth and largest such facility in the city-state

Master money thinking and strengthen your financial base so you can invest, save and build wealth beyond income growth.

How Budget 2026 should affect Singaporean wallets

A wake-up call for early careerists, aspiring parents and middle-class professionals to master personal finance

From left: David Kuo of The Smart Investor; Ben Paul, senior correspondent, The Business Times; Howie Lim, correspondent, The Business Times.
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Cash, courage and collateral: The share financing debate

Leveraged investing is a seductive but high-risk move where most lose everything. Experts help Howie Lim navigate this danger with tools like the portfolio pyramid.

Singapore also offers depth through a mature wealth-management sector with trustees, banks and advisers experienced in private markets, cross-border structures and other operational demands.

Why Asia’s family offices are moving to multi-hub models

Even as market access broadens, Singapore remains the centre for governance and oversight

OpenAI’s private market valuation stands at US$500 billion.

Is an AI price war about to begin?

Assumptions underpinning valuations of big US groups might be too optimistic

While Budget 2026's policy direction applies across the economy, outcomes will become more uneven, with stronger firms better able to absorb volatility, and weaker ones exposed more quickly.
PERSPECTIVE

How policy-driven growth shifts investment risk

As Singapore Budget 2026 accelerates internationalisation and AI adoption, investors must focus on firms’ execution quality

A digital bridge is rapidly connecting rural communities across Asia's hinterlands. The next half-billion Internet users will mostly come from Asia's villages and small towns in the next few years.

Galloping across the digital bridge: rural Asia’s ‘fire horse’ transformation

The momentum behind the region’s digital bridge is now unmistakable

Chinese EV players such as BYD have transformed their brands and quality levels.

Three AI investment opportunities outside the indices

For those concerned about an AI bubble, the answer is not to retreat from global equities, but to look beyond the giants