Wealth management

Singapore life insurers pay out over S$5 billion in Q1, the highest for quarter since 2021

It coincides with more people strengthening financial resilience by boosting health coverage, pursuing wealth accumulation: industry body

UBS' Young Jin Yee (left) and Conrad Huber presenting the Global Next Generation Report, which surveyed more than 170 next-generation wealth holders globally.

Asia’s wealthy families shed taboo on succession planning as US$83 trillion changes hands: UBS

The inheriting generation is reshaping how family wealth is managed and who they trust to manage it

​OCBC head of global consumer financial services Sunny Quek says: “All of us (financial institutions) have a wealth strategy. What’s really going to differentiate one bank from another is the execution."

OCBC consumer banking chief Sunny Quek aims to double wealth business by 2029

The lender’s new wealth management committee could hold the key to a successful execution of its ‘Next Frontier’ pivot

What makes an insurance product a universal life plan?

High-net-worth insurance as a multi-generational wealth planning tool

Amidst the US$6 Trillion Wealth Transfer, high-net-worth families are increasingly using Indexed Universal Life (IUL) insurance in their multi-generational wealth strategies. Find out how and why.

Standard Chartered’s wealth unit last week posted a record quarterly income of about US$1 billion.

StanChart to expand Gulf wealth operation, boost teams for Taiwan, South-east Asia

The lender is adding about 50 private bankers in Singapore to serve wealthy Chinese clients

In 2025, the Bank of Singapore's family office and wealth advisory team registered a record number of client engagements globally.

Bank of Singapore strengthens family office, wealth advisory team to support UHNW demand

Ultra-high-net-worth clients are a ‘key growth segment’, says the bank

While GDP growth has surged, many SMEs are struggling to keep pace, says the writer.

Singapore’s next opportunity: Connecting private wealth to public growth  

The number of single-family offices in the Republic has surged to more than 2,000

Rickesh Kishnani, co-founder and chairman of Rare Whisky Holdings, expects the first fundraising round to close by September.

Whisky fund uncorks US$50 million play on casks after scams rattle market

The Platinum Whisky Investment Fund II draws lessons from its first iteration, will have a more active foreign exchange hedging strategy

The programme uses OCBC's anonymised proprietary insights on customer behaviours to generate realistic training scenarios.

OCBC to train wealth advisers using generative AI

Previously, supervisors coached up to 10 staff in one-on-one sessions

A potential inflow of wealth from the Middle East could help Singapore's banking trio as interest rates soften and net interest margins inevitably face compression this year.
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DBS, OCBC, UOB could benefit as the Middle East’s ultra-rich relook where to park their billions

The three local lenders have all spent years expanding their private banking capabilities to capture a growth in global wealth flows