Asset Management Business for Sale in Singapore

We are offering a unique opportunity to acquire a fully operational Singapore-based Variable Capital Company (VCC), featuring one established and ring-fenced sub-fund. This VCC is currently active and fully compliant with all regulatory requirements set by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The structure is professionally managed by a MAS-licensed Singapore fund manager, ensuring robust governance, proven operational processes, and regulatory reliability.
Key highlights:
• Live and operating status: The VCC and its sub-fund are in current and active standing, with all compliance, statutory filings, and regulatory reporting up to date. The entity is ready for immediate transfer of ownership, no formation delays or regulatory backlogs.
• Professional management: Management is currently handled by a reputable, licensed Singapore-based fund manager. Their expertise ensures seamless day-to-day operations and adherence to Singapore’s rigorous financial and AML standards.
• Turnkey solution: This acquisition offers direct ownership transfer, allowing the new owner to retain or appoint a different licensed fund manager at their discretion. All legal documentation, fund constitutions, and administrative frameworks are already established.
• Flexible investment structure: The VCC includes one sub-fund with segregated assets and liabilities, providing maximum investor protection and operational flexibility. The structure is suitable for a diverse range of investment strategies, including private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, or impact/green finance vehicles.
• Confidentiality and tax efficiency: Take advantage of Singapore’s fund privacy safeguards and eligibility for attractive tax incentive schemes, subject to continuing MAS requirements.
Key potential uses and benefits of a VCC include:
- Investment fund platform: VCCs can accommodate both traditional (equity, bond) and alternative (private equity, real estate, hedge funds) investment strategies. They are suitable for open-ended and closed-ended funds, and can be tailored for venture capital, private credit, fund-of-funds, and family office structures.
- Umbrella structure with sub-funds: A single VCC can establish multiple sub-funds with segregated assets and liabilities. This enables fund managers to maintain different investment strategies, portfolios, and investor groups under one legal entity, facilitating operational and cost efficiencies through shared service providers and consolidated boards.
- Capital flexibility: VCCs allow for easy issue and redemption of shares without shareholder approval or solvency tests, enabling more seamless movement of capital for investors. This provides greater liquidity, ease of entry and exit, and flexibility in capital management compared to many traditional structures.
- Operational efficiency: The VCC structure supports cost economies, especially for managers of multiple funds, as administrative, compliance, and audit functions can be pooled and streamlined.
- Confidentiality and privacy: The register of shareholders is not required to be made public, and financial statements are also not publicly available, enhancing privacy for investors, especially for high-net-worth and institutional investors.
- Tax advantages: VCCs can benefit from Singapore’s tax incentive schemes, such as the MAS 13O and 13U schemes, potential tax treaty access, GST remission, and exemption from withholding taxes for non-resident investors. Certain VCC funds may enjoy tax-free income if qualifying criteria are met.
- Global competitiveness & re-domiciliation: Foreign investment funds can be re-domiciled to Singapore as VCCs to take advantage of these benefits, positioning Singapore as a fund management hub comparable to Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, and Dublin.
- Investor protection and risk segregation: The legal segregation of assets and liabilities among sub-funds ensures that the insolvency of one sub-fund does not affect others, protecting investors across different strategies.
- Ease of distribution: VCCs can pay dividends out of their capital, providing greater flexibility in distributions compared to companies governed solely by profit-based dividend rules.
- VCCs are particularly attractive for fund managers and asset owners seeking flexibility, scalability, operational and cost efficiency, investor privacy, and favorable tax treatment in a regulated, global investment environment.