Managers of Wealth

Safety, Quality of Life and Education Drawing Wealthy Buyers to Switzerland

Low taxes still a key reason for moving to the country, but other factors are helping, report finds

Rich and powerful women in Asia more philanthropic

UBS wants to lift its share of women in management to one-third, from 23 percent currently.

Advisers fear challenging clients' attitude to risk

The research provider also found that 10 per cent of advisers never encouraged their clients to move higher up the risk ladder.

4 US Cities Make the 2017 Top 10 List Most Expensive Cities for Construction

All four have plenty of construction projects happening and are all extremely populated.

Sorting Out Impact Investing In A Changing Market

Impact investing is so important for emerging and frontier markets

Lower fees - much ado about nothing?

Gambles breaks down the investor universe into three broad types.

'Sit in the shade today because you planted a tree a long time ago'- Warren Buffet

Putting aside this remarkable example, which they both readily admit, has invited large risks to reach such levels of returns, ISAs can be very important tools in ensuring that: as Buffet so aptly describes it, ‘one is sitting in the shade’ la

Banks Eager For Artificial Intelligence, But Slow To Adopt

Disaster recovery is also critical and must be performed on premise

Providing modular support to asset managers

Additional support is particularly important in the area of information security, he explains, given how easily data can be hacked or lost, yet the dearth of expertise in these areas.

Family Wealth Disputes: Preparation Is Key

What is driving this phenomenon and is there a smart way to navigate high net worth family disputes?

Tarrant: Artificial intelligence will disrupt the hedge fund model

Tarrant has also expressed confidence that it is the young and emerging fund managers who will eventually reap the full benefits of machine learning

British fund managers in Brexit Brawl

Success was the necessary ingredient of failure

Forget high-flying tech stocks, here's what UBS says investors should buy now

Jeremy Zirin, UBS Wealth Management's Head of Investment Strategy, recently upgraded large-cap value stocks.

In green investment, it’s fight or flight

The funds pulled from errant companies are re-invested into other sectors that follow the same economic trends.

Malaysia prime land development is attractive, says List Sotheby

Having opened its regional headquarters in Singapore, the firm may decide to venture into the Malaysian market in future.

Innovative impact fund targets African SMEs and producers

Savia will target SMEs that want to import manufacturing equipment and construction material

Fee innovation in investment management overdue

UK consultant LCP’s latest fee report, published last month, shows that of 22 strategies analysed, only eight rose in the years since 2011.

Statistical Arbitrage: A New Way of Investing

They lead to developments on the world financial markets that could not have been predicted by classical methods of fundamental or technical analysis.

St. James’s Place – “Political ructions”

Criticism outweighs approval on both the Conservative and Labour manifestoes; the Conservatives risk UK businesses “being left in the starting blocks because of a blunt approach to immigration” and Labour “fails to offer the pro-growth a

The art of giving gains traction in Africa as the wealthy seek to make a difference

The Knight Frank findings show that over the next decade Africa’s number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals will grow by 33%, after suffering a decline of 2% in 2015-16 due to tough market conditions.

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