Managers of Wealth

Bitcoin Boom May Take Prices to the Moon; Is Doomsday Coming?

In spite of all that, Bitcoin is still some kind of bubble. Although a lot is happening in the virtual currencies world, it has not yet erupted.

Study finds rich prefer long-term, sound investments

Ping An noted that private equity products made up around a fifth of assets held by its rich clients, indicating that some will transfer funds to professional institutions to invest in the capital market in addition to their own stock buying.

Little by little, we went insane by Tim Price

Coppola’s unique vision came at a price.

Home bias remains an issue among wealth managers

Follows UK investors' heavy weighting towards UK assets

Turkeys Twizzled by Tim Price

This is not to denigrate the entrepreneurial spirit. Society needs risk-takers.

The Top Ten Global Risks Facing Businesses

This makes it essential for businesses to track and manage these multiple threats– or risk damaging both their finances and their reputation.

Want to get rich? Move to Dubai

The Emirate ranks high for salaries, disposable income, and safety

The World’s Rich Once Flocked to Geneva. Now Its Allure May Be Fading

Although the city has largely recovered from the end of secrecy at banks, whose numbers have shrunk by a quarter, Geneva faces questions about its allure for international businesses and the world’s wealthy.

Women-led hedge funds try to crack the boys’ club

Female asset managers struggle to attract investments even as they outperform their male peers

Move over Millennials, there is a new gang in town and they mean business

The post-Millennial generation known as Generation Z will make up nearly a third (32%) of the global population of 7.7bn in 2019

The Sunday Times Rich List 2019: age of uncertainty rattles the super-rich

After a year of turmoil on the stock market and high street, the super‑rich have a new fear — Corbygeddon. Robert Watts reports on how they are planning to protect themselves from a hard-left government

Influential themes driving investment in emerging Asia

The growth in Asian economies has been driven by manufacturing and exports thus far.

Top Dogs and Fat Cats

This is in part the consequence of globalisation and developments in communications technology

The psychotic freakshow rolls on by Tim Price

Any government will struggle to sign something they know will be hated by so many and held up as an example of the two parties serving themselves.

Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – our darkest secret

This passionately argued polemic reveals that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

Millionaires Tell UBS They're Bullish on Stocks

Global investors are holding 32% of their portfolios in cash

Report provides largest analysis ever of UK Women’s attitude to wealth.

The WealthiHer Network Report 2019: Understanding the Diversity of Women’s Wealth, is the UK’s largest ever study into the female experience of wealth and the finance industry.

HNW investors feel good about global economy: survey

Only 21% reported feeling pessimistic

Vontobel: Solving Social and Environmental Problems with Impact Investing

Investing and generating a financial return while at the same time solving the world’s social and environmental problems sounds appealing to investors.

Geneva PM on how not to fall into the private assets trap

nvesting in private equity through funds, funds of funds or in direct deals is not something new in the wealth management industry but in the past it was more limited to specialists and it certainly was not common for many private clients.

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