Comment & Analysis
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Here’s Why You Need to Know Your Net Worth
08/18/2017The phrase net worth refers to the overall value of your goods and possessions minus what you owe.
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Proof: whisky tastes better with water
08/18/2017Some alcohol evaporates during the maturation resulting in an alcohol content of 55 to 65 per cent for cask-strength whisky.
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It’s not the money, it’s the mood: Predictions for the private aviation market
08/18/2017Key factors to consider include geo-politics and global regulation.
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Meet Chabi Nouri Piagets First Female CEO
08/18/2017Nouri is currently also the only female chief executive in Richemont’s stable of watch and jewellery brands
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Gucci most popular bag brand millennials
08/18/2017It's one of the only labels young consumers are willing to pay full price for
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'Do Your Homework', Millennial Impact Investors Advised
08/18/2017We can never be complacent and accept things at face value
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Investment banks revive structured finance repack market
08/18/2017The structured securities allow buyers to alter parts of the profiles of underlying bonds, by for example turning coupon payments into floating from fixed or switching returns into other currencies.
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Geneva adviser investment head: time to review safe haven calls
08/17/2017Short-dated corporate bonds have been the asset manager’s allocation of choice over the last four years and continue to produce ‘reasonable returns’, he said.
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Swiss fund market reaches one trillion milestone
08/17/2017Bond funds attracted the most new money in July (CHF 3.5 billion), followed by equity funds (CHF 1.8 billion).
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No longer the top dog
08/17/2017Once the gold standard in life and investments, Old Mutual is struggling to regain its place among its peers
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Investors more confident in Asia Pacific and Europe region than UK and US
08/17/2017Confidence in the UK stock market was lowest at 56.8%.
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Impact investing move across asia
08/16/2017What had they come to discuss? A burgeoning network of committed, passionate investors and entrepreneurs who are focused on using capital to achieve both a social and financial return.
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Hedge funds start to face up to extreme gender imbalance
08/16/2017Questions mount over diversity in an industry dominated by male fund managers
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Why wealth managers need to take the lead in financial education
08/16/2017The nomenclature that has grown around the world of banking, savings, investment and wealth management has become a barrier.
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Specialist addiction treatment for the rich and powerful
08/16/2017Extreme wealth and power provides a buffer from many of life’s difficulties
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Challenger shows the banks how it's done on wealth management
08/15/2017The best way to illustrate the failure of the banks to adequately capitalise on the wealth-management opportunity is to compare their recent performance in wealth against life insurer and funds manager Challenger.
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What do the rich worry about? Surprisingly, it's money
08/15/2017They are all trying to estimate whether they will have enough income to support their current lifestyle, he says.
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St. James’s Place – “Ten years on – the state of the global economy”
08/15/2017On the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, the greatest risks appeared to be geopolitical rather than financial.
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All that jazz and the financial crash connection by Penny Lovell
08/14/2017A strange question to be asking, perhaps. How could there be there be any real link between the financial crash that brought the global economy to its knees and an influential bebop Jazz musician who died in the 50s?
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Active management stages a comeback
08/14/2017Industry has closed the gap on passive’s rapid growth since the start of the year