Managers of Wealth Offshore

A crazy foreigner under the French sun

We had also spent lazy afternoons enviously looking at bargain property prices in estate agents’ windows, so we knew that our British pounds would buy a lot more house and land in rural France.

Firing Private Bankers Is Far More Difficult Than Clients Imagine

Structured notes, hedge funds, hedge fund of funds and other high risk investment products lack transparency and liquidity and are hard-to-value assets.

Blame it on Hormones: Men are the Cause of Today's Problems

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.

JPMorgan targets more British millionaires

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

Expat Brits found to be happiest in Spain, Canada and Germany

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

Europe Needs Some Founding Fathers by Seven Investment Management

It is not controversial to propose that humans have come pretty far in the last 225 years.

Millionaires who don’t feel rich

Bloomberg had earlier reported that the city state had become the third richest country in the world on a per capita basis.

Higher growth in Switzerland

The economy has accelerated substantially in the past two quarters.

The Institutional Lite Fallacy by Phil Banas

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”

'Curiouser and curiouser' by Justin A. Urquhart Stewart

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.

Socially responsible investing not just for the wealthy

By launching your Investing with Impact Platform, you can change the world — literally.

Going Public, Going German, Going East

The flotation of the world's largest social network has, appropriately, become a social event.

Weekly Gold Report - BlackRock

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.

Europe should ‘prepare for break-up’, Arbuthnot

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.

Two suggestions to help HMRC reduce tax red tape by George Bull

Anybody who studies the way in which new tax law is made knows that impact assessments are undertaken at key points in the process.

Gold: The World's Friend for 5,000 Years

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.

Fact File: The Super-Rich

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

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