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Wealth & Investing

Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Investors must reckon with unknowns

Take the market outlooks with a pinch of salt and watch for true surprises

Is retirement planning different for a growing SME versus a mature, stable business?
Podcasts

Liquidity vs Legacy: Retirement planning for SME owners

SME owners often risk personal wealth, betting on a business sale for retirement. Is your business your biggest asset, yet a poor retirement plan? Howie Lim discusses this with Grace Tay from finexis ...

Valuations have improved in recent months, with room for further earnings growth and improvements in Japanese companies’ fundamentals.
Opinion & Features

The rebirth of the Nikkei: Why investors are turning their eyes to Japan

Reforms have increased transparency and strengthened accountability

An Amazon Web Services AI data centre in the US. As long as companies such as Amazon see AI spending as existential, they will continue to invest, and that will continue to fuel the boom in artificial intelligence, says the writer.
Opinion & Features

Are we in an AI bubble?

The perspective of an investor and former telecom analyst who witnessed the bursting of the tech bubble in the late 1990s

Asian investors are moving from being "capital takers to capital allocators on a global stage", says Sumeet Bhambri, global head of advisory and managed investment, wealth solutions, at Standard Chartered.
Wealth
ASIA WEALTH IN SIGHT

Where clarity meets legacy: How Standard Chartered guides the next generation of wealth

The bank’s ‘Today, Tomorrow, Forever’ framework helps families organise and navigate their wealth across three interconnected time horizons

SkillsFuture credits can be used to pay for approved courses. One way to maximise the credits is to stack it with other funding.
Opinion & Features
MONEY MATTERS

Taking stock of finances before 2025 ends

Six areas to look into when reviewing money decisions

By sector, more than 20% of these undervalued, high-quality class are industrials, followed by financials and consumer discretionary.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

The best time to buy quality stocks is now

It is a generational opportunity in otherwise bubbly markets

Countries such as Vietnam (above: Hanoi) and the Philippines are experiencing a rise in large-scale infrastructure projects.
Wealth & Investing

Why South-east Asia is a prime destination for energy and infrastructure investments

Region’s rising energy demand and infrastructure developments create a compelling intersection among need, opportunity and innovation

Portfolio flows into Asian local currency bonds and equities are projected to remain robust, with foreign portfolio inflows highly likely to recover further in 2026 amid a benign economic environment.
Wealth & Investing
RETHINKING MATTERS

Asia’s 2026 outlook: resilient growth amid policy shifts, global risks

Region enters the year buoyed by liquidity tailwinds, hinging on China’s pivotal shift towards consumption

For the yen to fundamentally alter its trajectory, the Bank of Japan would need to truly undertake lift-off – and keep going, to considerably narrow the gap in borrowing costs with the US.
Wealth & Investing

We need to shatter one big myth about the weak yen

Intervention rarely turns any currency around on a sustainable basis

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