06/12/2012
I've written in the past about how hiring more women can reduce risk. Several studies have shown that women are more profitable investors, money managers and hedge fund managers, and they incur less risk in the process.
06/11/2012
A drive to attract more British millionaire clients marks a first phase of plans by JPMorgan (JPM.N) to expand its private banking services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), targeting clients who are rich if not yet in the "ultra rich
06/11/2012
Spain is the top expat destination for a happier life • Canada and Germany come in second and third • New Zealand highlighted as best country for quality of life • Tax-conscious expats enjoy financial happiness in UAE
06/11/2012
It is not controversial to propose that humans have come pretty far in the last 225 years.
06/11/2012
Bloomberg had earlier reported that the city state had become the third richest country in the world on a per capita basis.
06/08/2012
The economy has accelerated substantially in the past two quarters.
06/06/2012
While there is some truth in the assertion that the top end of the wealth continuum is increasingly looking for institutional-style performance analytics, it is a fallacy to see the needs of wealth managers as some kind of “institutional lite”
06/05/2012
Just like Alice in her glorious Wonderland, all is seemingly not quite what it seems. Certainly this appears to be the case when it comes to the economy.
06/05/2012
By launching your Investing with Impact Platform, you can change the world — literally.
05/28/2012
The flotation of the world's largest social network has, appropriately, become a social event.
05/28/2012
Gold drifted lower early in the week as the Euro continued to weaken against the US Dollar. By Thursday, the metal had recovered as the euro stemmed its losses after a softer-than-expected US manufacturing report.
05/28/2012
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the latest developments in the Eurozone and provides an update on the UK.
05/24/2012
Anybody who studies the way in which new tax law is made knows that impact assessments are undertaken at key points in the process.
05/23/2012
Last November, the IPO deal of the day was Groupon. On the first day of trading, shares rose to a high of $31 from an initial offering price of $20.
05/22/2012
The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK rose 4.7 per cent last year, surpassing a previous high set before the 2008 financial crisis. The result is a new global elite, living lives of luxury and privilege the rest of us can hardly fathom
05/22/2012
Incentives have become so complex and volatile that they no longer motivate the executives they are aimed at
05/21/2012
Mark Twain once said that "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes".
05/18/2012
The word on the street is that HMRC’s High Net Worth Unit (HNWU) is gaining favour in high places at HM Treasury.
05/17/2012
Different images of dragons shape Eastern and Western mythology: the connotation is one of strength and confidence in the East, but threat and chaos in the West.
05/16/2012
Indeed since 2008-09 and since the depths of the crisis, the recovery that we have had has been driven by massive fiscal and monetary stimulus which cannot be sustained.