Piyush Gupta enjoys hefty $4.1m bonus after record-breaking profit year

30 Mar 2016 - Singapore Business Review
His total salary rose to $10.9m. The chief executive officer of Singapore's largest bank recorded a cash bonus of $4.11 million in 2015, DBS' annual report show. This marks a 10.8% increase compared to his cash bonus of $3.79 million in 2014. Gupta's salary remained stable at $1.2 billion. His total ...
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When I retired, I was a free agent: Ratan Tata to Piyush Gupta

29 Mar 2016 - DealStreetAsia
The ‘inbuilt frustration’ of not being able to invest in new ideas and sectors, as often as he wanted to during his five-decade-long career, led him to become one of India’s most active investors post retirement in 2012, Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons revealed at an event in Singapore. “I ...
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2 Multi-Billion Dollar Companies That May Be Value Stocks

29 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Buying stocks with low valuations can be a good way to succeed in the stock market. That’s what highly successful investors such as John Neff have done. While unknown companies are more likely to trade at cheap valuations since most investors are unaware of their existence, huge and well-known companies ...
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DBS unveils brand-new mobile banking app

29 Mar 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Balances can be viewed with a single swipe. Singapore’s largest lender has launched DBS digibank, a new mobile application designed to make banking simpler and faster. The new app allows users to view their account balances with one swipe on their devices without having to log in, a first in Asia. This ...
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The Best Bank Stock in Singapore

29 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about two important metrics to look at when analyzing bank stocks. The metrics in question are the net interest margin (NIM) and loan-to-deposit ratio (LDR). In here, I’m going to pit Singapore’s three local banks – DBS Group Holdings Ltd (SGX: D05), Oversea-Chinese ...
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What Can Individual Investors Learn From Top-Performing Funds

28 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that individual investors are often on the lookout for lessons from winning long-term investing strategies. Examining investment funds with solid long-term track records may provide some good learning points. The examples to learn from In February this year, the Wall ...
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Next Week’s News Today: Will The US Dollar Climb?

26 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Markets, with the exception of Europe, will return to some sense of routine next week with many countries back to work after the Easter break. Most of Europe that include Germany, the UK and Switzerland, will still be closed though for Easter Monday holidays. The markets in Australia and New Zealand ...
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The Week In Five Numbers: DBS Group Aim To Get Wealthy

25 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The second-largest company in the world has decided to go small. Apple has cut both the screen size and the price of its new iPhone and iPad to target customers in the emerging markets. The new iPhone SE will cost US$399, while the new iPad will start at US$599. Watch out India and China – Apple is heading ...
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Here’s why wealth management is all the rage for Singapore’s banks

24 Mar 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Especially in a time of loan growth turmoil. With Barclays’ divestment of its Singapore and Hong Kong private-wealth business, Singapore banks, DBS, UOB, and OCBC, has reportedly been interested and are scrambling to get their hands on the sale. According to Maybank Kim Eng, this is because the sale ...
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This is 1 Burning Threat Singapore Banks Cannot Ignore

24 Mar 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore banks are on a burning platform. This was a characterisation suggested by Piyush Gupta in a Bloomberg interview last year. Gupta is the chief executive of DBS Group Holdings Ltd (SGX: D05), Singapore’s largest bank. In the interview, Gupta said that the world of banking could be disrupted by ...
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