Managers of Wealth Offshore

HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans

The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management

Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life

Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.

Millionaires Got $80 Million in Jobless Aid in Recession

“So many people are taking advantage of government support that they probably feel like, why shouldn’t they take advantage of it, too?” said George Walper Jr., president of the Spectrem Group

A New BRICS Development Bank: Will It Work for Women?

A new BRICS bank indeed raises important questions

Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank

Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.

Most Knowledgeable Affluent Investors More Likely to Pursue Overseas Job Opportunities

Taking risk and financial knowledge are two hallmarks of the Affluent investor

A shot across the bow at fund directors

The SEC last stepped up its monitoring of mutual fund directors after the late-trading and market-timing scandals

How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?

If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.

Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge

After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Driving with the handbrake on

Do you know what it's like to drive a car with the handbrake on?

Coutts warns clients of threat from debt markets amid bubble fears

Coutts, the high-end private bank, has warned its clients against exposing their fortunes to a potential collapse of the high-yield debt market amid growing concerns of a new global credit bubble.

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POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees

DBS a more efficient outfit now, says CEO

"We are now centrally managed, there is now a standardised policy framework, we are more efficient and effective."

Schroders ‘set for the premier league’

Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.

Everything You Need To Know About China's Crackdown On $2.1 Trillion Of Wealth Management Products

The Chinese stock market took a hit Thursday after its banking regulator issued new regulations to tighten control over banks' wealth management products (WMPs).

Sanlam’s Speirs looks to follow in footsteps of SJP and Towry

Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.

Is China’s wealth management boom setting up a subprime crisis?

"China has seen an explosive growth of wealth management products, which could turn out to be its very own subprime."

Cyprus – is the sun setting for companies seeking tax breaks?

As the problems in Cyprus continue to make the headlines on a daily basis, we ask whether the sun could soon be setting on its reputation as a tax-favoured holding company location for international groups.

BNP Paribas Securities Services: Patrick Colle soundbites from his UK Press Conference

Patrick Colle kicked-off the event by providing a brief company update, focusing on key 2012 achievements.

Economic reality confounds the gloomsters

A relentless diet of pessimism fails to reflect the prospect of better times ahead

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