05/22/2012
Private banks are known for their traditional, conservative ethos and European private banks in particular have always trumpeted their long and proud histories - old fashioned client service, together with the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from knowing yo
05/22/2012
Women working in the City earn 21pc less than their male counterparts, new figures on the gender pay gap show.
05/22/2012
ANZ Wealth has rationalised its research contracts, with Mercer now the major provider of investment research and consulting services for its Australian Wealth and Private Banking businesses.
05/22/2012
The firm will add foreign stock and bond strategies to its U.S.-based mutual-fund unit, open six more Luxembourg-based funds for offshore clients and wrest business from competitors, Niedermeyer said.
05/22/2012
The U.S. is the world’s only super-power, and has not shied from using its economic and diplomatic might to seek and reclaim back taxes, and punish banks who helped hide the money.
05/22/2012
A group of billionaires met to talk about money -- not earning it, but how to best give it away.
05/21/2012
Damn the financial crisis.
05/21/2012
Seven Investment Management is enabling advisers to take deposits and offer clients loans through its platform.
05/21/2012
That's a shame, because things didn't have to get so bitter. Even with rates low, there are some ways for trusts to produce steady, decent-sized payments.The heirs to America's fortunes are growing impatient.
05/21/2012
Credit Suisse, the Swiss banking group, is considering the sale of JO Hambro Investment Management, its UK private client wealth management business.
05/21/2012
Investec Wealth & Investment is to integrate its investment process with that of Williams de Broë (WdB) by September, Wealth Manager can reveal.
05/21/2012
The new office at 3075 Hansen Way has about 16 Merrill Lynch staff catering to the unique needs of Silicon Valley's wealthy investors and employees whoe tend to be younger and more entrepreneurial than Merrill Lynch's more traditional clients in
05/21/2012
He says private banks will win the race for Asia's wealth and explains how he intends to go about it. He talks about his time at Goldman, and what asset managers must do.
05/21/2012
Last month, the company had put its non-US wealth division up for sale
05/18/2012
It initially had a total of 219 women, who were shortlisted to 100, according to a statement issued by Forbes. It lists 29 women from the banking sector, 18 from manufacturing, 16 in investment, 14 from services with the insurance sector having eight.
05/18/2012
Yet few women in Asia make it to the top. Social norms undervalue girls and women, with sex-selection abortions resulting in some 1.3 million girls per year not being born in China and India alone.
05/18/2012
Andrew is the founder and managing partner of Synergy Advisory Management Group. The firm specializes in retirement planning and wealth management.
05/18/2012
Saverin has plenty of company. The number of Americans who formally renounced their U.S. citizenship soared to 1,780 last year from 235 in 2008.
05/18/2012
Mr. and Mrs. Romney fall into the latter category, making them close to quarter-billionaires.
05/18/2012
Bellpenny will use a business model based on acquiring existing IFA firms and asset aggregation and will offer restricted advice.