Managers of Wealth

Wealth manager interview: Chris Fisher

Fisher considers his business, the investment management services provider Multrees, more in the position of collaborator and partner to its clients.

India has more billionaires than France or Germany

India is now home to the fifth largest number of billionaires in the world, according to the 2014 Hurun Report

Risky assets to deliver most attractive returns, supported by plentiful bank liquidity - Rothschild Market Perspective

Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.

Wealth Advisers Offer Offshore Investors a Safe Haven in the U.S.

The recent local currency turmoil in many emerging markets has led to renewed interest among wealthy families in socking away assets in another country.

Privacy or Secrecy? by Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly

MEPs have recently approved new rules to introduce an EU register of all beneficial owners of companies and foundations, and also private trusts. But could this present a risk to individuals that are in the public eye?

Social Media Gaining Importance as Investment Tool - Survey

The increasing popularity in social media is playing a greater role in how professional market participants make investing decisions

An Indian with a British passport who works for a German bank

Speaking at the Jewish Museum’s 28th Annual Purim Ball here, where he was honoured, Jain said a defining year for him was 1982 when he arrived in America as a 19-year-old student.

Hope... Is My Middle Name!

"Spain has passed from ‘Danger to Hope’" - Mariano Rajoy

Dimon Says Threats to JPMorgan Span Google to China Banks

Jamie Dimon, who built JPMorgan Chase & Co. into the world’s biggest investment bank, said threats to its dominance may come from Beijing, Silicon Valley and a San Francisco-based rival with a stage-coach logo

UK and Singapore agree to increase financial services cooperation

London and Singapore are two of the world’s leading international financial centres and play similar roles as financial hubs and major asset management centres for Europe and Asia respectively.

Robust Trends in Europe and Japan - Market comment, LGT

Is the euro area’s continued equity rally overdone – particularly given the dismal economic reality in Europe’s south?

Seeing things differently by 7IM

There's little doubt that an economic recovery is well underway in much of the developed world. In the US, the most obvious demonstration of that is the Federal Reserve's determination to decrease its bond purchases, which have now fallen to US$

LLP members – changes to new tax rules

Following consultation with Baker Tilly and other concerned groups, HMRC has published revised guidance on the new tax rules for salaried members of LLPs.

Investor Insights from Coutts: Gold sets the pace for 2014

Gold is the best-performing asset class in the year to date, with prices going up by close to 10%.

Growth, Uncertainty and FX

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy

Fair Tax for Ulster

The businesses in Ulster have one very major issue to manage over and above all the other economic and social issues that fellow companies have to address elsewhere across the UK - that is of course its southern neighbour, which sits across a very porous

Post-Casey, what expats must do

More and more Singaporeans are protesting against the influx of foreigners. What exactly is contributing to this xenophobia?

Facing Retirement Wave, Firms Get Serious About Training New Advisors

Running up against the limits of a recruitment strategy based on swiping advisor talent from their competitors, leading wealth management firms are trying a new ploy: Growing their own.

Hot-shot hedge fund banker quits London job and sets up company in Boston to find drugs to save his son, 3, after he's diagnosed with fatal muscular disease

A heroic father has quit his job as a high-flying hedge fund banker in London and dedicated himself to finding a cure for his sick son, who is fighting a life-threatening muscular disease.

Suicides in the banking world, 7 deaths within weeks

The financial world has been rocked over the past few weeks as seven bankers have died, several of those committing suicide.

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