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Practical guides on investing, tax, family offices and succession, from the team behind HelloHQ.
What a Seizure Teaches the Other Side of the Transaction
In late October 2025 Singapore police seized or froze more than S$150 million of assets linked to a sanctioned regional conglomerate. The lesson for ordinary households is not about the targets. It is about who they dealt with.
Three Months to Approve, Fifty Years to Document
Singapore now aims to decide family-office tax-incentive applications in about three months, down from a year. The catch, as reported, is a source-of-wealth file that may reach back decades. What a family needs in order to be approved quickly.
When the State Becomes an Investor
In the same week of February 2025, Singapore put S$5 billion behind its stock market and Indonesia launched a sovereign wealth fund said to manage over US$900 billion. When a government is a buyer, how should a private investor read prices?