Unveiling H/Advisors Klareco at the Official Launch Party Last week, H/Advisors Klareco officially marked its entry into the global H/Advisors network – the strategic communications powerhouse of the Havas group – with a brilliant night of celebration.  Nestled within the vibrant Havas Village in Singapore, the H/Advisors Klareco team mingled with over a hundred guests, including clients, media friends and partners, in a night filled with music, laughter, and cheers. The official launch signified the crowning achievement of years of dedication, vision and teamwork, and the entire H/Advis ..read more

SG Budget 2024 – Charting a Resilient Path: Empowering Growth and Transformation for a Competitive and Sustainable Future The Singapore Budget 2024, announced on 16 February 2024 by Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, comes at a critical juncture when the nation is facing an increasingly uncertain and polarised external environment and subdued economic growth. Amid the announcement of financial and technical support provided, the key tenets of this year’s Budget remain to build on Singapore’s competitive advantage and ensure that its citizens are equipped with the right skills for industries ..read more

Much at stake for Indonesia’s upcoming 2024 General Elections As Indonesia approaches its pivotal 2024 elections in just two weeks’ time, the nation stands at a crossroads of democracy and development. This election is set to be more complicated than the previous two election cycles, featuring a three-candidate race that could potentially to reshape the political landscape. Amidst this backdrop of change, key issues such as the shape of Indonesia’s next government, economic stability and investment climate are key concerns for many international businesses. A Test of Indonesia’s Democracy The ..read more

Key takeaways from Klareco Insights: The Road Ahead for Indonesia in an Endemic COVID-19 World As we approach the end of 2021, everyone wearily hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic will be over soon. This year had not been the recovery that many anticipated. The Delta variant, which caused a spike in infected cases in Indonesia to more than 50,000 each day between June and July 2021, disrupted the country’s recovery. The emergency public activity restriction (PPKM Darurat) imposed by the government across the country greatly affected businesses and the economy. However, the hope we had at the sta ..read more

Shareholder Activism: What if you’re in the hot seat? 27 August 2021 Activism is rising globally, and when it comes to shareholder activism, the stakes are clearly high: growth strategies could be thwarted,  sustainability plans challenged, corporate reputation dented, and even control in the Boardroom broken. It is against this backdrop that Klareco’s Financial Communications team hosted a webinar game “Shareholder Activism: What if you’re in the hot seat?” this month, taking participants through a dynamic simulation of how a fictitious Singapore-based conglomerate named 168 Peak Holdi ..read more

SG Budget 2023 – Forging resilience in an increasingly uncertain and polarised world The Singapore Budget announced by Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on 14 February 2023 was designed to assuage the anxiety of many Singaporeans over rising costs and housing, and maintain Singapore’s competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain and polarised world. For the year ahead, the Singapore government has outlined several challenges that will affect the country’s economic trajectory, as well as corresponding measures to address the challenges. Global inflation could remain elevated due to hig ..read more

Klareco Communications – Associate Member of H/Advisors Klareco has been a proud partner of /amo strategic advisors for many years, and we are pleased to have formalised our relationship earlier this year by becoming an Associate Member of the network. As part of its ambitious plans for the future, the /amo network has today become H/Advisors – a fully integrated and global strategic advisory group. We would like to congratulate the global network on this milestone, and are delighted to be on board! Visit the H/Advisors website to find out more. The post Klareco Communications – Associ ..read more

Values Most Valued 2022 – /amo Global Corporate Values report Klareco Communications worked collectively with the /amo strategic advisors group, a leading global independent agency network, to launch the Global Corporate Values report for 2022. The Values Most Valued report shares invaluable insights into how blue-chip companies from multiple national markets seek to project their sense of purpose and worth to their various audiences. Spanning across 17 industry sectors in 19 markets, it outlines the values that are most frequently cited by individual markets to identify b ..read more

SG Budget 2022 - Corporates’ role and contribution towards a vibrant economy As anticipated, the centrepiece of the Singapore Budget 2022 outlined by Minister of Finance Lawrence Wong on 18 February 2022 was the increase in taxes. There were hints of this in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s New Year address on New Year’s Eve, during which he remarked that Budget 2022 will lay the basis for sound and sustainable finances for the next stage of Singapore’s development, now that economy is emerging from Covid-19. Singapore’s economy had rebounded strongly in 2021, the resident unemployment rate h ..read more

Klareco Insights – Malaysia Budget 2022 As anticipated, the just announced Malaysia 2022 Budget is another bumper one for the country following the past couple of years which has seen its economy severely impacted by Covid 19. The Budget, which has a total allocation of RM332.1bil – the largest-ever for the country – was tabled by Malaysia Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz in Parliament on Friday and is built on three key pillars: Strengthening Recovery, Building Resilience and Driving Reforms. As Malaysia begins to emerge from the pandemic with a gradual opening of the economy ..read more