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Opportunities And Challenges For The Asset Management Industry, Singapore Management University
Opportunities And Challenges For The Asset Management Industry, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
With the secular rise of Asia and a deluge of capital inflows, amid a backdrop of battered global financial markets, bankers, asset managers, academics and investors gathered to hear and discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the asset management industry in Asia. Organised by the Centre for Asset Securitisation and Management in Asia(CASA), under SMU's Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, the inaugural asset management conference hosted a panel of experts.
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
China’s rapid economic progress from an impoverished communist state to the world’s second largest economy within just three decades has enthralled many economists. That the country shifted from the classical centrally-planned command economy to one espousing free market practices while maintaining communist rule, has all given rise to this question: What exactly is the China model? Is it the hybrid of innovative state ownership and tight political control? Or is the rapid growth the result of liberal economic and political reforms?
Singapore: Building A Future Without Cheap Oil, Singapore Management University
Singapore: Building A Future Without Cheap Oil, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Singapore’s investment and long history of involvement in the oil industry has been a major factor in the development of its economy. In the 272-page book 'Singapore, The Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960 to 2010' by Ng Weng Hoong, he traced the evolution of Singapore’s economy over a 50-year period beginning from 1960, showing how energy has been a powerful but little noticed thread in the country’s rise from a struggling Third World country to an affluent city-state it is today.
Growing In Asia: P&G Turns To Market Research, Singapore Management University
Growing In Asia: P&G Turns To Market Research, Singapore Management University
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“Create excitement in the market with new products; entice the competitors to play, and together, we can grow the market,” said Medhee Jarumaneeroj, the 'influencer marketing & external relations leader' for Procter & Gamble (P&G) Asia's male grooming outfit. Speaking at the Marketing Excellence Speaker Series, a monthly talk organised by SMU's Centre of Marketing Excellence, Jarumaneeroj expressed excitement about Asia as a huge growth market for the American multinational.