Standard Chartered bank and BlackRock have partnered to launch an Asia Pacific focused multi-asset strategy under the bank\u2019s Variable Capital Company (VCC) platform.<\/p>\n
The Signature Select APAC Allocation Plus fund will invest across equities, fixed income and liquid alternatives, and aim for long term capital appreciation alongside income generation.<\/p>\n
BlackRock will act as the sub-manager, combining systematic equity insights and fundamental fixed income selection.<\/p>\n
Sumeet Bhambri, global head, advisory and managed investments, wealth solutions, Standard Chartered, said: \u201cBy combining our open architecture platform with BlackRock\u2019s global multi-asset capabilities, we can provide our clients with a well-diversified, institutional-quality solution to capture opportunities across Asia Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis latest addition further strengthens our VCC platform, which is focused on delivering differentiated, hard-to-access strategies that help clients navigate increasingly complex market environments while building resilient portfolios.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fund will be made available to accredited and professional investors across the bank\u2019s priority, priority private, and private banking segments in Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE, Jersey, Malaysia, Kenya, and Nigeria, with other markets to follow.<\/p>\n
Andrew Landman, deputy head of Asia Pacific and head of Asia Pacific wealth, BlackRock, said: \u201cWith strong economic growth prospects across Asia Pacific and many Asian assets still underappreciated, we see compelling opportunities for active investing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether with Standard Chartered, we aim to bring our multi-asset investment expertise and disciplined portfolio construction approach to help investors access diversified sources of return and build resilient portfolios through market cycles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered bank and BlackRock have partnered to launch an Asia Pacific focused multi-asset strategy under the bank\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21387],"tags":[2584,12927,8791,11957,6117,25122,20677],"class_list":["post-78073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-standard-chartered","tag-asia-pacific","tag-blackrock","tag-equities","tag-fixed-income","tag-fund-launch","tag-multi-asset","tag-standard-chartered"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116876527708290737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}