Category: Singapore

  • Inside MAS’s Equity Market Development Programme, From Nine Managers to the First Fund on the Ground

    Inside MAS’s Equity Market Development Programme, From Nine Managers to the First Fund on the Ground

    Inside MAS’s Equity Market Development Programme, From Nine Managers to the First Fund on the Ground. When the Monetary Authority of Singapore set up its Equity Market Development Programme, the pitch was simple. Take a meaningful pool of public money, hand it to carefully selected asset managers, and use it to draw more capital and…

  • Set up a fund in Singapore

    Set up a fund in Singapore

    Singapore is one of the most efficient places in Asia to launch a fund if you know the steps. Here’s a walkthrough of what’s involved, from choosing a structure to getting licensed. Singapore has a strong legal system, a favourable tax regime, and access to world-class capital markets and infrastructure whether for capital markets, wealth…

  • VCC Fund Singapore

    VCC Fund Singapore

    The VCC Variable Capital Company has reshaped how funds get built in Singapore. Here’s what it is, who it suits, and what to check before you use one. When Singapore introduced the Variable Capital Company framework, it changed the calculus for fund managers across the region. It gave the industry a purpose-built legal form for…