Managers of Wealth Offshore

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

Making executive pay work: The psychology of incentives

Incentives have become so complex and volatile that they no longer motivate the executives they are aimed at

Repeating is Self-Defeating

Mark Twain once said that "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes".

HNWU: increasing tax yields, but is it meeting its objective? by Mike Down, Baker Tilly

The word on the street is that HMRC’s High Net Worth Unit (HNWU) is gaining favour in high places at HM Treasury.

China and the West during the Year of the Dragon - Bank Sarasin

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.

Private sector still deleveraging, economic growth remains weak

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.

Greece threatens euro stability, but risks reflected in safe-haven bonds - Coutts & Co

Political rather than economic considerations are increasingly pushing Greece towards a euro exit.

Early investor in Asia rings the changes

This “east-east” corridor, named after ancient trade routes linking Asia with the Middle East, saw trade volumes quadruple over the past decade.

Two years of the Coalition – how are they doing on the tax front?

To give credit where credit is due, in their first two years the Coalition Government has seen through some tax changes which were already in the pipeline.

Dimon geezers by Tim Price PFP Wealth Management

Imagine you are one of two people playing 'Monopoly'. While you follow the rules religiously, the other player – who also happens to be the banker – does not.

The French have a new one, The Russians have an old one and the Greeks haven't go one at all by Justin A. Urquhart Stewart

Maybe the changes of last weekend might just be the catalyst for change that we have been waiting for to finally get things moving in Euroland and to try and break this seemingly intractable euro impasse.

Do more with less: A study in process optimization

“Do more with less,” is the mantra of consultants and the marching orders of senior executives. In today’s world of increased competition and compressed margins, companies want methods to improve efficiency. Automation is the “lo

How a Black Swan slayed JP Morgan’s ‘London Whale’

In early April, global debt market traders first learnt of a Big Money trader who had been singlehandedly moving the debt markets in previous weeks with his bullish derivative bets linked to corporate bonds.

Patriotism! Super Rich Renounce US Citizenship to Make Tax Evasion Easier (And Other Ways the Wealthy Cut Ties to Country)

How quaint, muse many of our 21st-century super rich.

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