{"id":949349,"date":"2026-05-10T00:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:11:38","slug":"singapore-shines-as-stable-investment-oasis-amid-global-storms-very-appetising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949349\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore shines as stable investment oasis amid global storms: \u2018very appetising\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As global markets are roiled by geopolitical uncertainty and the energy fallout from <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war<\/a> in the Middle East, a tiny speck in Southeast Asia has emerged as an oasis of stability \u2013 at least in terms of where the well-heeled can park their money.Giig Tanaporn, CEO and founder of business and wealth consultancy Unique Prime Group, has observed that high-net-worth clients, especially from the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/middle-east?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Middle East<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea<\/a>, have been increasingly choosing <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/singapore?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Singapore<\/a> for its regulatory framework, currency stability and access to global capital markets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She cited the recent case of a Northeast Asian tech founder with US$50 million in assets who decided to restructure his family holdings and consolidate cross-border investments by setting up a corporate structure in the city state.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To him, Singapore was a natural choice as a financial safe haven \u2013 offering, in Tanaporn\u2019s words, \u201clong-term succession planning under a stable, English common law jurisdiction\u201d, without requiring him to relocate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That combination of stability and accessibility was a common refrain among wealth managers who told This Week in Asia that inflows into Singapore had steadily picked up among high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals seeking to manage geopolitical risk.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The island country\u2019s stoic positioning amid a turbulent global environment has also contributed to the recent resurgence of its stock exchange, with the benchmark Straits Times Index crossing the 5,000-mark for the first time in February. That same month, total deposits in the city state hit a record US$1.61 trillion, while Singapore\u2019s asset management market grew 12 per cent year on year to S$6.07 trillion (US$4.5 trillion) in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The number of single-family offices exceeded 2,000 by the end of 2024, up 43 per cent from the year before. Family offices are vehicles set up by wealthy families to manage investments, succession planning, philanthropy and art collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As global markets are roiled by geopolitical uncertainty and the energy fallout from war in the Middle East,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[264833,20788,51,264840,264834,114748,1700,264838,264835,264837,16723,264836,3749,264839,839,89958,976,16,15],"class_list":["post-949349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-anti-money-laundering-and-other-matters-act","tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","tag-business","tag-cgs-international-securities","tag-christopher-hui-ching-yu","tag-dbs","tag-economy","tag-equity-market-development-programme","tag-financial-action-task-force","tag-fujian-gang","tag-gan-kim-yong","tag-hamilton-lane","tag-hong-kong","tag-maybank","tag-middle-east","tag-monetary-authority-of-singapore","tag-nasdaq","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116547386508294295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}