04/02/2012

Lawsuits test UBS advice on offshore bank accounts

Tax lawyers describe the suits, emerging from a crackdown by federal authorities on Swiss banks, as the first of their kind in the United States to assert that Swiss bankers made improper assertions to their U.S. clients about the tax implications of thei

04/02/2012

Citi's Duttagupta on Asian Wealth, Investor

The number of Asians with at least $100 million in disposable assets overtook North America’s tally for the first time as the world’s “economic center of gravity” continued moving east, Citi said today in the report published in pa

04/02/2012

Generali targets HNW in the UK

In one of the boldest moves by an offshore life company in recent years, Generali PanEurope this month will formally begin to target the UK high-net-worth and UHNWI market with a flagship portfolio product and wealth structuring services

04/02/2012

Raymond James Closes Morgan Keegan Acquisition

Raymond James Financial announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Morgan Keegan, creating one of the country’s largest full-service wealth management and capital markets firms not headquartered on Wall Street.

04/02/2012

RBC Wealth Management Wants You

The broker wars of 2012 are heating up as a foreign invader tries to crack the U.S., Asian, British and Latin American markets.

03/30/2012

UBS Investment Bank Still Key, But Focus Moves To Clients

The hiring of Andrea Orcel last week underlines the bank's commitment to grab more market share in the business of advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and other deals, Naratil told investors at a banking conference in London.

03/30/2012

Canada lags on fiduciary duty, fee transparency

As returns dwindle and financial markets lurch from crisis to crisis, more investors are focusing on how much they are paying for financial advice and products that aren't living up to expectations.

03/30/2012

Wirehouses Lose Top Spot in High-Net-Worth Market for First Time

While the high-net-worth market share of wirehouses slipped to 45% from a peak of 56% in 2007, and is projected to fall to 42% by 2014, both of the industry segments with which wirehouses compete in this space—traditional private client groups and m

03/30/2012

New silk route to Singapore

Every year, hundreds of Chinese private bankers gather in Hongqiao, a nondescript corner of smog-shrouded Shanghai, to learn the basics of wealth management.