All asset management companies (AMC) in Singapore are being oversee by

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(MAS). AMC is generally an

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that invests the pooled funds of investors in

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in line with the stated investment objectives.

Regulated by MAS

To conduct the regulated activity of fund management either as a Licensed FMC, a Registered FMC or a Venture Capital Fund Manager, AMC will need to register with MAS.

Investment fee in Singapore

AMC in Singapore provide their investment services for a fee. They charge commission fees for each transaction you make. That means that when you buy shares, you get charged. When you sell your shares, you also get charged. For a fee, the company/firm provides more

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, and professional

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service than is normally available to individual investors. The diversification of portfolio is done by investing in such securities which are inversely correlated to each other. Money is collected from investors by way of floating various

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s, e.g.

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schemes. In general, an AMC is a company that is engaged primarily in the business of investing in, and managing, portfolios of securities.

Largest companies

The following is a list of the top 5 AMCs located in Singapore (as of 2017):

Notable AMCs within S.E.A

Asia

Aberdeen Asset Management Aberdeen Asset Management was an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutions and private investors from offices around the world. Its head office was in Aberdeen, Scotland. The company was listed on the Lon ...

* Affin Hwang Asset Management Berhad * Asia Frontier Capital Ltd. *

BNY Mellon Investment Management BNY Mellon Investment Management (BNY Mellon IM) is the investment management division of BNY Mellon. It is one of the largest asset managers in the world with $2.4 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2021. BNY IM uses seven di ...

Capital Dynamics icapital.biz Berhad () is a Malaysia's only closed-end listed fund, listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia. The fund is managed by Capital Dynamics Asset Management Sdn Bhd and advised by Capital Dynamics Sdn. Bhd. Capital Dynamics is an i ...

* Conning & Company *

Eastspring Investments Eastspring Investments (also known as Eastspring) is an investment management firm headquartered in Singapore that is focused on investments throughout Asia. It is a subsidiary of Prudential plc. History Eastspring was originally the investme ...

IDFC Project Equity IDFC Project Equity is a finance company based in India and subsidiary of Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC). IDFC Project Equity manages the India Infrastructure Fund (IIF), a SEBI-registered domestic venture capital f ...

Investcorp Investcorp is a global manager of alternative investment products, for private and institutional clients. Founded in Bahrain in 1982, the firm has offices in United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, India, China, ...

* Mirae Asset Group *

Nomura Group is a Japanese financial holding company and a principal member of the Nomura Group. It, along with its broker-dealer, banking and other financial services subsidiaries, provides investment, financing and related services to individual, instituti ...

Standard Life Aberdeen Abrdn plc (stylised as ‘abrdn’, disemvoweling of "Aberdeen"), formerly Standard Life Aberdeen plc, is a United Kingdom-based global investment company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a ...

SinoPac Financial Holdings Bank SinoPac, or SinoPac Financial Holdings Company Ltd ()(), is a Taiwan-based banking holding company which operates through 22 divisions as well as 125 branches in Taiwan and 3 international branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu (as of ...

Value Partners Value Partners Group Limited () is a Hong Kong-based asset management company. History The company was founded in 1993 as a boutique firm by the present Chairman & Co-chief investment officer Dato' Seri Cheah Cheng Hye, and businessman Ye ...

Australia

AMP Capital AMP Capital is a large global investment manager headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Its owner, AMP Group, was established in 1849, and is one of Australia's largest retail and corporate pension providers. AMP Capital has a strategic alliance ...

Macquarie Group Macquarie Group Limited () is an Australian global financial services group. Headquartered and listed in Australia (), Macquarie employs more than 17,000 staff in 33 markets, is the world's largest infrastructure asset manager and Australia' ...

References

How to Setup a Singapore Fund Management Company

External links

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