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The taxation of trophy assets

Guernsey’s ILS market outstripping 2017 performance

The total number of international insurers in Guernsey stood at 853 at the end of 2017

Blind Item: Which Credit Suisse MD Is Giving Us Our First Inappropriate Intern Touching Scandal Of The Summer?

Per our tipster, “Group is now telling interns to hush or face repercussions if it leaks…They are going to let him off with a HR lecture.”

UBS CIOs: why we downgraded EM equities

Speaking at a press briefing in Singapore, Haefaele said that with growing volatility, investors are also looking for a higher risk premium and hence taking money out of EMs.

Auto-enrollment ‘not the answer’ to SE pension crisis: Old Mutual Wealth

The IPSE report, entitle How to solve the self-employed pensions crisis highlighted a number of areas of concern relating to retirement planning and savings for self-employed individuals in the UK.

Commonwealth Bank’s Wealth Unit Spin Off May Be Worth as Much as AMP

CFS Group may be worth A$5b to A$10b, according to analysts

Failure, guaranteed By Tim Price

The third impediment to performance is that professional fund managers and financial institutions have grown to the point that they have become the market.

How a World Cup run might turn £1 into £65,000 - the power of investment compounding

A valid point, no question – but an odd one to be making, we felt, to a group of professional custodians of a sizable amount of money.

Takeaways could become cheaper than home cooking as robots take over preparation

The first big shift will come in the form of dedicated outlets – so-called “dark kitchens” which only serve takeaway customers and do not have the expense of running...

Managed accounts and Asia: Right product and right time for Asia’s HNWIs

Founded in Hong Kong, Axial is a Type 9 investment manager licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission.

Bizarre Becker: Sad and turbulent saga of a fallen tennis champion

A photograph of his passport was circulated but this showed his position as “financial charge de mission” and not as a sports and cultural attaché.

What Will BlackRock Look Like in 2030?

Over the past decade, BlackRock and the elite asset management community beneted handsomely from central bank measures such as quantitative easing, with the rapid creation of money owing into listed equity markets.

Let's have more heart for art.... by Penny Lovell

What many people don’t know is that this year is the 150th anniversary of his birth and the city that once rejected his brilliance is now mourning the loss of his architectural jewel.

Parting a rich fool and his money? Child’s play

The luxury-goods market with its rocketing prices tells us much about our class system

Eight Charts That Explain Millennials and the Future of Wealth Management

Data points financial advisors should keep top-of-mind when thinking about the future and engaging with a growing younger client base.

RBC Loses Its Luster as Investors Make TD Canada's Premium Bank

Toronto-Dominion’s returns more than doubled its Canadian competitor in the past year, eliminating the premium Royal Bank shares enjoyed for the better part of a decade.

High-net-worth individuals are moving offshore: Why?

Crestone’s clients’ asset allocations have a correlation of about 87 per cent to our growth model portfolio, which is up from less than 80 per cent a year ago.

Creating An Innovation Culture At Brazil's Banking Giant Itaú

This is when digital director Rubens Fogli had to start a department focused on injecting innovation into the company's products from scratch.

Investing in Africa is still a tough sell

The Africa equity specialist talked about the changing narrative around the continent

Sallie Krawcheck wants women to take control of their money

The former wealth management executive now running robo adviser Ellevest says women need to invest as much as men do

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