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  • 3 days ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

    Helge Muenkel, chief sustainability officer, DBS Victor Wong, head of sustainability office, UOB Asset Management Mike Ng, group chief sustainability officer, OCBC BT: Sustainable investing has ebbed and flowed along with market sentiment and political winds. Why are investors hesitant, and what needs to be done to get climate-aware investing into the mainstream? Helge Muenkel: We have witnessed continuous improvement and strong efforts to transition our global economies to a net-zero future.

  • 3 days ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

    BY HOW much has the world progressed in climate mitigation and abatement? A cursory look may be disheartening. 2024 was the hottest year on record; it was the first calendar year when temperatures rose by 1.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level. At the same time, geopolitical crises drove demand for fossil fuels; economic uncertainty also cast doubt on climate pledges.

  • 1 week ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

    [SINGAPORE] Asset manager KKR is one of the largest globally in private markets, but it is hungry for yet more capital to deploy into "very long, interesting ideas", said KKR partner Alisa Wood. To this end, the company has redoubled efforts to garner a larger share of the US$150 trillion private wealth market, where consulting firm Bain reckons alternative investments account for just 5 per cent.

  • 2 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

    [SINGAPORE] Moody's downgrade of the US' credit rating by a notch (Aaa to Aa1) shouldn't have come as a big surprise. Earlier downgrades by S&P in 2011 and Fitch in 2023 have raised expectations that Moody's would be next; it was only a question of when.

  • 2 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

    [SINGAPORE] Private wealth clients in Singapore expect their wealth managers or advisers to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their offerings, more than clients globally or in the Asia-Pacific (Apac), the 2025 EY Global Wealth Research Report has found. This expectation was named by 74 per cent of Singapore respondents, compared with the global average of 60 per cent and 72 per cent in Apac.

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1 Sep 15

Individuals can apply through DBS/POSB, UOB, OCBC. Applicants must have CDP account with direct crediting service activated

Genevieve Cua
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1 Sep 15

Singapore Savings Bond opens for application today at 6pm. Annualised return if held to maturity - at end of 10 years - is 2.63 per cent.

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1 Oct 14

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