
Startups digitising micro-businesses sense new opportunity as COVID-19 makes door-to-door collections risky
SpiderG and Paperking are trying to digitise collection systems for newspaper vendors, small gyms, coaching classes and many others.

SpiderG and Paperking are trying to digitise collection systems for newspaper vendors, small gyms, coaching classes and many others.

Like private equity fund preoccupation with portfolio companies and corporate attention to balance sheets, family offices are currently distracted by their families’ safety and overall investment portfolios.

Samsung heir Jay Y Lee, embroiled in a bribery scandal, on Wednesday apologised over controversial succession plans and said he will not hand over management rights to his children at the family-controlled conglomerate.

Some of Australia’s largest listed companies are ditching or deferring the dividend payments investors rely on. Is it time to look further afield?

Uncertain times call for thinking out of the box in the current market environment and one firm Canadian firm is showing that a multi-asset approach can benefit investors. It’s something that exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors can try to mimic using various funds focusing on different assets.

Markets and businesses across the world continue to cone to terms with the consequences of the coronavirus crisis, and the family office space is no different

The London-based real estate adviser to a billionaire family from the Middle East is lining up deals of as much as £5 million (S$8.8 million) for UK residential developments and more than double that amount alongside other investors for bigger properties, such as hotels or offices.

echstars, the global platform for innovation and investment, today announced the launch of the Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator. Amid the global coronavirus pandemic impact, with the potential of nearly 200 million global job losses according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the mentorship-driven accelerator will work with startups addressing the challenges of the current labor market through innovative technologies, business models and solutions.

The reluctance among some of Asia’s wealthiest families to rush for deals is potentially a warning sign for the global economy. However, some are still keen to invest, especially family offices in China where the economy is reopening

For a family with multiple homes in multiple locations, an operating business and more, the complexity and number of obligations are significantly more difficult to