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Top Eight for Week 6 – 13 October 2017

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Greetings,

Always a pleasure to touch base with Asia’s fund selector community. Our two Funds Selection Nexus events in Hong Kong and Singapore this week yielded some sage insights, and while we run these sessions on an off-record basis, I will share with you a few data points from our surveys.

First things first, in terms of net asset inflows into funds, private banks recorded a 6.1% YoY decrease in 2016 but anticipated a 12% increase in 2017.

In fact, almost half of those banks surveyed this week said that they have seen a 21-40% increase and over one third have recorded a 1-20% increase in net inflows YoY. Around half expect net flows to increase on a YoY basis by 1-20% in 2018.

Around the topic of ESG, the community sits on the fence in terms of the potential of ESG funds in Asia over the next five years. While 39% said that ESG strategies for private clients have “fair potential”, 36% believe ESG funds have a “low potential” in the medium-term.

Also of note, fund selectors mostly have a “fair” or “good” view of asset managers’ understanding of their respective Asia wealth businesses although, as always, most of those polled believe that fund houses would do well to improve compatibility between their product offering and local clientele and for sales teams to better understand Asia-specific needs. 

The good news is that private banks expect funds penetration in Asia to increase steadily from our current estimate of 11%.

To quote one attendee: “There is more to come, we can still easily double fund penetration”, and “the holy grail is to capture the equity share”. 

Your Top Eight (plus a few bonus people moves) follows.

Cheers,
Sebastian Enberg
Editor

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