Managers of Wealth Offshore

Treasuring our Treasure

Learning to treasure our successful industries has never been a great trait in the United Kingdom.

Triple deleveraging and schizophrenic regulation by Eric Chaney, AXA Group Chief Economist

The 2013 Eurofi Seminar took place in Dublin on "Building financial regulation to foster stability and growth", in association with the Irish EU presidency.

We're living in interesting times -Mark Burgess, CIO, Threadneedle Investments

In the five years since the onset of the global financial crisis, markets, economies, and the authorities have taken many opportunities to surprise and confuse investors

RTI – Really Totally Insignificant or Ready To Implode?

It was introduced only six days ago, but has RTI lived up to the hype?

A Wall Street legend's firm dissipates

Chairman of New York-based Gleacher & Co. resigned in January.

Financial crisis caused by too many bankers taking cocaine, says former drugs tsar

David Nutt, the former Government drugs tsar sacked after claiming that horse riding was as safe as taking ecstasy

Gold digging a deeper hole - Coutts

While there is certainly room for a technical bounce, the risks still seem weighed toward the downside in the short term.

Investing in diamonds - Undertapped, Underappreciated and Undervalued

Polished diamonds make a compelling case as a hard asset investment.

St Valentine’s Day Massacre by Tim Gregory, Head of Global Equities, Psigma Investment Management

If I’d told you a year ago that global stock markets could go materially higher

"The last thing to collapse is the surface."

Don't Get Hit by a Falling BRIC

Boutiques stage fightback

Boutique asset managers from Europe, Latin America and Asia have launched a self-help group to lead a fightback against the growing dominance of “powerful, well-resourced, global players”.

Time to scotch the myth around bankers' bonuses

I was pleased to hear the City grandee lawyer Anthony Salz, right, in his independent review of Barclays' corporate culture last week, echo a point that I've been making for some time about bankers' pay.

Australians unhappier than 'whingeing Pom' Brits

Australians have been forced to abandon their traditional taunting of Britons as “whingeing Poms” after a survey found they were less happy despite enjoying growing wealth and a much stronger economy.

£7trillion Britain is better off than ever

The best-off 10 per cent of households have an estimated average per household of £1.82million

An Adviser Sees Promise in the East

"The developed world, in general, has more challenges fiscally than the developing world,"

Aberdeen’s Gilbert goes back on the acquisition trail

We are very cautious, and these are well-priced deals

HNWIs need private and investment banking

The financial and entrepreneurial ambitions of today’s generation of high net worths and family offices require sustainable ideas to promote future wealth

The World's Top 20 Green Banks in 2012

The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.

Big pay ‘made Barclays bosses feel above rules’

In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news

HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans

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

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