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- Singapore, 19 Nov 2004...The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today lifted the suspension of recognition for two non-retail collective investment schemes. 2 The two schemes are CSA Absolute Return Fund (Dublin) Ltd and CSA Absolute Return Plus Fund. In Singapore, these two restricted schemes may be offered to sophisticated investors only. 3 MAS suspended the recognition of these two schemes on 18 June 2004, after Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission issued a restriction notice on
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- Singapore, 2 May 2012… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has accepted the recommendations made by the Corporate Governance Council (Council) on the Code of Corporate Governance (Code), and issued the revised Code of Corporate Governance. 2 MAS has carefully considered the recommendations of the Council, and is pleased to announce that it has accepted all of the Council’s recommendations. The key changes to the Code are focused on the areas of director independence, board composition, director
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- Singapore, 1 September 2016… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that the refinancing rules under the Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR) framework will be fine-tuned to allow borrowers more flexibility in managing their debt obligations. This is in response to feedback from some borrowers who are unable to refinance their existing property loans owing to the application of the TDSR threshold of 60 per cent. 2 The TDSR framework and threshold will continue to apply to new property
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- Mr Raymond Ng, Conference Chairman Mr David Choo, AFA President Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen A very good morning. Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak at AFA’s annual conference once again. For the financial advisory industry to thrive, it must be seen as trustworthy. Trust takes years to build and can be eroded quickly when large scale misconduct or scandals occur. Poor culture and conduct is widely accepted as one of the key root causes of major conduct failings in the
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- Ms Susan Soh, Chairman of IMAS Mr Steven Yankelson, Head of ASEAN, Bloomberg Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. The future of capital is green. There are three powerful forces driving this: growing recognition of climate change as a global priority; advances in approaches to sustainable investing; and changing investor preferences. First, climate change has become a risk that is too important for investors to ignore. The world needs to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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- This study was published as Special Feature B in the October 2012 Macroeconomic Review. 84 Macroeconomic Review, October 2012 Special Feature B Self-Fulfilling Global Panics by Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop1 Introduction The 2008 financial crisis saw a sharp drop in global asset prices and economic activity. For example, Chart 1 shows the decline in growth in the US and in other G20 countries during the so-called Great Recession. What is unusual
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- GIA President, Mr Derek Teo, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to join all of you at your Annual General Meeting Luncheon once again. 2 I would first like to congratulate Mr Derek Teo for being re-elected as GIA President for another year. Indeed, I must thank Mr Teo for all his hard work over the past years, and for once again agreeing to lead the GIA for one more year. Under the leadership of Mr Teo and GIA’s Management Committee, GIA has achieved
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- Good morning. 1 Thank you for inviting me to join you today. There are important issues confronting the global economy. Allow me to share some observations on global and regional economic trends, and what they mean for Singapore. I look forward to hearing your views. 2015 in Retrospect 2 While the G3 appeared to be on the upswing phase of their gradual recovery from the GFC, emerging market economies (EMEs) in 2015 experienced a generalised downturn that was partly a result of policy responses
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- The Minister, Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance, and Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore ("MAS") today moved two Bills for first reading in Parliament, namely: The Securities and Futures (Amendment) Bill ["SF(A) Bill"]; and The Financial Advisers (Amendment) Bill ["FA(A) Bill"]. 2 The Bills represent the first of a two-phase review of the Securities and Futures Act ("SFA") and Financial Advisers Act ("FAA"). The SF(A) Bill implements recommendations of
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- Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to this year’s special edition of the Asian Monetary Policy Forum featuring the MAS-BIS Conference on Macro-Financial Stability. Macro-Financial Stability: Theory Trying to Catch up with Practice The origins of this conference go back to a conversation that Agustín and I had about 18 months ago on the need to crystallise a coherent policy framework for macro-financial stability