Singapore Modern Business Hub: A Mini Guide

By Paul McNamara

A mini guide, Singapore: Modern Business Hub provides essential insights for investors, traders and SMEs who need to understand the ever-evolving Singaporean business landscape in 2015. Lion or tiger, this remarkable city state has survived the global financial crisis in good shape and is already gearing up to take its place centre stage in this Asian century. This mini guide is a useful primer for anyone who wants to understand quickly how to do business in Singapore – from a corporate structuring perspective, from the perspective of a trader and in terms of wealth management. The picture that emerges is of a city that is primed for growth and ready to capitalise on the ‘easternisation’ of global commerce.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul McNamara
• Release date: Mar 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310260827

Paul McNamara

Paul McNamara is an editor and journalist with over 20 years’ experience. His career includes spells with the Financial Times, Euromoney, BRW Media, Asia-Inc, Private Equity & Hedge Funds Middle East and Banker Middle East. He has a specialization in Islamic finance, the Middle East banking and finance industry, GCC capital markets, wealth management and the world of interest rate securities.

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Singapore Modern Business Hub: A mini guide

By Paul McNamara

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Contents

Foreword - Singapore: Modern Business Hub

Chapter 1. Wealth management and succession planning

Chapter 2. Corporate structuring

Chapter 3. Trade, trading and traders

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Foreword - Singapore: Modern Business Hub

The lure of Singapore for both investors and businesses is inescapable: in the entire Australasian region, it would be a real stretch to find a centre that is more accommodating to business or as appealing to foreigner workers.