Singapore
Life insurance premiums to grow 5% in 2020
Life insurance premiums to grow 5% in 2020
It will benefit from sustained demand for annual premium products.
Daily Briefing: Temasek unit mulls offering equity-type products for retail investors; Pavilion Energy subsidiary to buy Spanish energy firm for $176.4m
And over 75,000 e-scooters registered ahead of 30 June deadline.
Chart of the Day: Online finance hiring up 28% in March
It rose sharply from 12% in the previous month.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.8%
Singtel led the gains after its stock grew 2.07%.
Three in five C-suite executives feel they lack expertise: poll
Years of experience spell little difference between the confidence levels of senior execs and newcomers.
Yanlord's Shenzhen apartment hits $280m in sales
It sold 283 units at an average selling price of $10,055.69 per sqm.
Fortune REIT to delist from SGX-ST
It cited low trading volume as one of the reasons behind the move.
YuuZoo sells 2.91% stake in video streaming unit for $4.08m
The stake corresponds to a valuation of $136.11m for YuuFlix.
Here's why more than half of Singaporeans still prefer in-store shopping
They want to make sure they could test the product first, a study found.
COE prices closed lower in latest bidding exercise
Category B vehicles saw the biggest premium decline of $3,822 to $35,906.
Accelerating Asia unveils first batch of startups
It aims to help develop the growth of seed-stage startups.
Only 17% of employees satisfied with learning opportunities from company: survey
Two in five employees have resigned from a company that didn't deliver L&D opportunities they expected.
India to beat Singapore in adspend for 2019
Singapore’s bicentennial year is expected to boost advertising by 1%.
Over a third of employees intend to resign: survey
Four in ten cited limited career path as the top reason for leaving.
Daily Briefing: Singaporeans hailed as APAC's fourth kindest traveler; Two GCBs up for sale at over $40m
And Scoot eyes growth in 2020 amidst fleet expansion.
Chart of the Day: Serviced office operators beat landlords in snapping up co-working stakes
They have dominated the space for more than ten years.
One in 10 firms forecast 0-5% revenue declines in 2019
Only 37% of businesses expect moderate growth between 5-15%.
Commentary
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