{"id":11234,"date":"2009-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ubs-names-sclater-to-head-singapore-prime-broking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/ubs-names-sclater-to-head-singapore-prime-broking.html","title":{"rendered":"UBS names Sclater to head Singapore prime broking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; UBS has named Alastair Sclater to the new post of head of its Singapore prime brokerage, as the Swiss bank aims to build that business in Asia&#8217;s second-biggest centre for hedge funds.       <\/p>\n<p> Singapore, which competes with rival Asian financial centre Hong Kong, has attracted asset managers, private banks and hedge funds in recent years with tax incentives and strict secrecy rules.<\/p>\n<p> The city-state also provides investors the opportunity to manage part of the more than $300 billion in assets held by its sovereign wealth funds GIC and Temasek.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSSIN35746820090812?FORM=ZZNR8\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; UBS has named Alastair Sclater to the new post of head of its Singapore prime brokerage, as the Swiss bank aims to build that business in Asia&#8217;s second-biggest centre for hedge funds. Singapore, which competes with rival Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[459,523,4439,15174,11708,4515,4504,5371,12635,4326,15173,15171,1129,4648,15172,422],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia","tag-asset-managers","tag-assets","tag-gic","tag-hedge-funds","tag-hong-kong","tag-investors","tag-prime-brokerage","tag-private-banks","tag-reuters","tag-sclater","tag-secrecy-rules","tag-singapore","tag-swiss-bank","tag-tax-incentives","tag-ubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}