Managers of Wealth

5 Top Fashion Brands in Europe You Should Know

So many amazing fashion designers, models, agencies, and fashion brands have emerged from this continent and have gone on to transform global fashion.

Four books that CEOs may find greater value and relevance, amid pandemic

There are many books where possibilities of the future have been insightfully depicted. Yet, thanks to the pandemic and its multi-dimensional ramifications, some books of the yesteryears have found greater resonance, meaning and relevance.

5 Tips for Successful Online Shopping

These attributes become all the more important when you are shopping online—because the clothes are not in their physical presence and you will have to think through a whole lot more because of the terms and conditions applicable.

Are you considering an investment fund but do not know where to start?

The fund administrator is normally the pivotal point around which the fund formation and ongoing administration revolves.

Efficiency - what’s holding investment managers back by Andrew Foster, Iress

The UK wealth management industry is now spending over £1 billion on IT and operations in a quest for ever more efficient, competitive and profitable ways of working.

Twelve powerful wealth management trends. Twelve opportunities in 2021. Are you ready?

Each trend presents a powerful opportunity to build new service delivery models, differentiate offerings, communication strategies, campaigns, and more that customers will benefit from and demand.

Financial Lives 2020 survey: the impact of coronavirus

Key findings from the FCA’s Financial Lives 2020 survey and October 2020 Covid-19 panel survey.

Continuous Learning for Executives: A Competitive Advantage

In many ways, corporate learning and development has never been more important.

Banks Withstand Contactless Push with Red Packet Roots

Even in the broader banking industry, there have been efforts to digitalize the longstanding custom.

Convenient exit or client sacrifice? Private equity's £3bn march into advice and wealth management

Nucleus latest firm in PE takeover

Commentary: Singapore's game plan to court more billionaires to come here is paying off

Besides low tax rates, Singapore’s regulatory changes are attracting more family offices to set-up here and that could have a multiplier effect on the economy, says David Kuo.

Covid-19 has made wealth managers’ IT advance 10 years

If you have a clear digital strategy and are advanced digitally then the past year will not have been bad.

Retail trading triggers questions around market values

That forced the hedge funds specialised in short selling the names to cover their short positions by buying stocks, reinforcing the price rises.

Chinese New Year: These three funds offer investors “reliability and strength” as we enter year of the Ox

The re-opening of the economy early means that China is well placed to gain market share in exports, a key driver of GDP growth.

Asia Pacific property in the Year of the Ox

New retail concepts, such as Burberry’s ‘social retail’ store in Shenzhen created in partnership with Tencent, are likely to prove a new trend

Views From the Floor – The End of the Big Short?

Are we witnessing the end of returns to big shorts?; wage inflation remains the missing piece of the inflation puzzle; and the surprising trend of earnings revisions.

Modern challenges for the modern central bank: perspectives from the Bank of England - speech by Andrew Bailey

He then talks about how central banks can act, whilst maintaining their reputation for independence.

Stranger than fiction by Tim Price

After 30 years in the capital markets, you think you’ve seen everything – and then something like Wallstreetbets and the great short squeeze of 2021 come along.

Longest-Reigning Bank CEO in Europe Has One of Its Worst Records

An uneasy silence fell over the room as Oudea berated the gathering, people with knowledge of the meeting said, signaling the power he held over the board members who are meant to oversee him.

Speculative Fictions: Gamestop, Bitcoin and Beyond by Coutts

Investors are reportedly making fortunes from their sofa using online trading apps to pursue highly speculative assets and trading strategies.

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