Managers of Wealth Offshore

"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

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?

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