Managers of Wealth

Profile: Bordier UK chief on earning advice fees and ‘eating your own cooking’

MacLeod’s gut feeling on his future was certainly right as, at just 29 years old

Credit Suisse's Brazil CEO Sees Crisis Dragging On for Years

The trajectory looks like this: At the end of 2013, Brazil had a budget deficit equal to 3 percent of gross domestic product; today, that figure is over 9 percent.

Platform giants hit back at wraps' warning over sunset clause crisis

The Financial Conduct Authority banned platforms from receiving rebates from fund managers on new business in April 2014.

Are HMRC bad losers? By George Bull

After losing a number of court cases in recent years, HMRC now has to repay compound interest to companies that were unlawfully required to pay VAT under a “mistake of law”. However, the Department has now announced that these repayments will

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Takes A Step Forward

For the first time in close to a century, mankind may be about to give serious attention to a technology that has the potential to be a true game-changer in transportation.

Lunch with the FT: Neb Nerbanke By Tim Price

“Mr Bernanke denies that the Fed unfairly “enriched the rich” because it only “returned asset prices and the like back to trend”, and the recent rise in US stock prices “is because returns are low”.

Clear signal? by St. James's Place

Global markets ended October on their way back to near record highs with the FTSE All-World Index gaining 8%.

How to invest like the Rothschild dynasty

The family has a 200-year record of growing and preserving wealth – and ordinary investors can share in its fortunes

China: Crisis, what crisis? by Chi Lo, Senior Economist, Greater China, BNP Paribas Investment Partners

Many observers believe that China is in a financial and economic meltdown.

Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday - 2015 should be all about Giving Tuesday

This year will be even bigger. Lots of extra businesses are marking the day out in their calendar, and millions more people look set to do the same.

From iMillionaires to the UK economy: Discretionary spending and iPads By Penny Lovell

My teenage son has become somewhat of an Apple disciple, and is never far from his iPad. But he surprised me this week.

Not all debt is bad debt - Private Investors in Infrastructure by Justin Urquhart Stewart

It seems we have a problem with HM Treasury (HMT).

"The Hong Kong fund management industry - moving to the next stage"

Following is the speech by the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Professor K C Chan, at the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA) 9th Annual Conference "The Hong Kong fund management industry - moving to the next stage"

Review: ‘The Price We Pay’ Maps a Web of Offshore Tax Havens

The ideas in this densely packed but enlightening film can be challenging, but must be heard.

Pictet Perspectives

Euro area: big drop in credit flows in September to be reversed

Only an investment bank could be this obtuse by Tim Price

“Government powerless to intervene in non-banking industry.

London regains position as top international financial centre

In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, includes discussion of the latest Z/Yen survey of global financial centres.

Bulls and doves - St. James's Place Market Bulletin

European markets received a boost following an ECB meeting in Malta, suggesting the body is open to “a whole menu of monetary policy instruments,” according to comments from ECB President Mario Draghi.

The responsiblity of wealth - should rich people give away their money?

The richest 85 people in the world are as wealthy as the bottom half of the world's population.

Coming over here and stealing our women... by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Constructive inward investment or selling out to Johnny Foreigner

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