Managers of Wealth Offshore

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?

Coutts warns clients of threat from debt markets amid bubble fears

Coutts, the high-end private bank, has warned its clients against exposing their fortunes to a potential collapse of the high-yield debt market amid growing concerns of a new global credit bubble.

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POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees

DBS a more efficient outfit now, says CEO

"We are now centrally managed, there is now a standardised policy framework, we are more efficient and effective."

Schroders ‘set for the premier league’

Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.

Everything You Need To Know About China's Crackdown On $2.1 Trillion Of Wealth Management Products

The Chinese stock market took a hit Thursday after its banking regulator issued new regulations to tighten control over banks' wealth management products (WMPs).

Sanlam’s Speirs looks to follow in footsteps of SJP and Towry

Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.

Is China’s wealth management boom setting up a subprime crisis?

"China has seen an explosive growth of wealth management products, which could turn out to be its very own subprime."

Cyprus – is the sun setting for companies seeking tax breaks?

As the problems in Cyprus continue to make the headlines on a daily basis, we ask whether the sun could soon be setting on its reputation as a tax-favoured holding company location for international groups.

BNP Paribas Securities Services: Patrick Colle soundbites from his UK Press Conference

Patrick Colle kicked-off the event by providing a brief company update, focusing on key 2012 achievements.

Economic reality confounds the gloomsters

A relentless diet of pessimism fails to reflect the prospect of better times ahead

Financial crisis far from over, says outgoing Bank of England chief

Whichever crisis we are talking about, it is far from over

Cyprus's banks have been tamed – are Malta and Luxembourg next?

Bank of Cyprus will become a shadow of its former self

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Getting beyond Cyprus

The world may not be firing on all cylinders, but a combination of good US growth and an increasingly confident Japan should provide a solid backdrop for higher-risk securities to move higher.

Saudi bank profit seen to ease in 2013

"As a result, we expect Saudi Banks to have lower profit growth that is also due to reduced income from brokerage," said Mahmood Akbar, the equity research analyst at NCB Capital .

BRICS Nations Plan New Bank to Bypass World Bank, IMF

“There’s a shift in power from the traditional to the emerging world. There is a lot of geo-political concern about this shift in the western world.”

British expats caught in drive to boost French taxes

Tax is indeed proving to be taxing for many inhabitants of France – including British expats

Lehman lessons weigh on Cyprus talks but 1920s slump must not be ignored

Failure to rescue the US bank will be borne in mind, but the European precedent to current woes is also worth consideration

Coutts Global Markets Weekly - 25 March 2013

Hope for equities as Cyprus agrees bailout deal?

Rothschild Sees Several ‘Big’ German IPOs After Equities Rally

More than 700 companies or stakes in companies were sold in Germany in 2012 with a total volume of $65 billion.

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