10/30/2012
Although they pay lower taxes across all income brackets than Americans and other Europeans, many Swiss are increasingly critical of the preferential tax treatment their government extends to wealthy foreigners.
10/30/2012
Banks continue to view Asia as the priority market for growth according to responses from an opinion poll carried out at an event held by Barclays at Sibos.
10/29/2012
Has Europe turned a corner? European equities certainly have.
10/28/2012
By 2025 Asia will account for almost half the world's economic output.
10/28/2012
All good libertarians necessarily approve of democracy over oligarchy or dictatorship.
10/28/2012
The rise of Asia has been a game changer. Despite short-term volatility, a massive opportunity exists for Australia to engage in business across Asia, but it doesn’t just follow that successfully seizing this prize will happen of its own accord.
10/28/2012
If the news is confirmed in coming days, it marks the withdrawal from "holistic investment banking" of one of the more hallowed names in the world of banking.
10/28/2012
Financial Markets were mixed last week as investors continue to wait for the US presidential elections on 6th November.
10/28/2012
The overall impact of Quantitative Easing (QE) on pension funds has been exaggerated according to global professional services company Towers Watson.
10/25/2012
This is important for investors as the global economy painfully adjusts to new realities and follows a rocky path to normalisation.
10/25/2012
“The 99% blame the 1%, the 1% blame the 47%, the private sector blames the public sector, the public sector returns the sentiment.. the young blame the old, everyone blames the rich.. yet few question the ideas behind government or central banks.&am
10/23/2012
With our debt soaring, our population aging and our infrastructure crumbling, we stand at a troubling crossroads. And yet politicians sell us low-tax, no-pain fantasies.
10/23/2012
Over the past ten years, the image of hedge fund managers has morphed from being the ultimate money manager with a touch of mystery and a stroke of genius to a rather plain and public figure.
10/23/2012
In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Kevin Tay, managing director, senior adviser and head of wealth and tax planning, Asia, at Julius Baer, a global private banking institution, explains that family-owned businesses in Asia have started to recognis
10/22/2012
'Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize,' Greg Smith tells CBS News' 60 Minutes
10/22/2012
Bruno Jacquier comments on the announcements of new quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank and their impact on exchange rates.
10/21/2012
There’s little doubt that the independent advisory business is growing rapidly, but the shape and direction of that growth remain one of the industry’s biggest unanswered questions.
10/21/2012
So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
10/21/2012
And while the rich are frequently disliked in the USA, they are many times simply hated in Europe.
10/21/2012
Hedge fund maestro Greg Coffey is retiring at 41 after a glittering career. And, after a distinctly lacklustre performance recently, many of his contemporaries are following suit