04/28/2014
Bank Holiday Blues by Justin Urquhart Stewart
From the days of Tony Hancock, when wet Sunday afternoons were a tedium to be suffered, to sitting in traffic queues on the A303 with whining children, bank holidays and weekends can certainly have their less appealing sides.
04/25/2014
Fear stalks UBS ahead of May 6th
The Swiss bank is analysts’ latest darling, but that doesn’t mean that banking jobs there are safe.
04/23/2014
As the world economic order changes, prime real estate is finding its way into the portfolios of investors from emerging markets
04/23/2014
Being a visionary is a common theme in the descriptions of many of the CEOs
04/23/2014
The idea that asset managers are too big to fail
04/22/2014
James Rickards, ‘The death of money: the coming collapse of the international monetary system’, 2014
04/22/2014
Across India Inc, more and more women scions can be seen at the frontline of their family business.
04/17/2014
6 Questions for the CEO of RBC Wealth Management
We are helping clients manage their wealth
04/17/2014
Finance is still the best prospect Jersey has, now, and in the future
Geoff Cook, CEO, Jersey Finance, outlined to over 100 Jersey business leaders at the IOD luncheon and politicians, how the Island’s finance industry is performing and what initiatives are currently being undertaken to promote the industry. Discussin
04/17/2014
Canaccord Wealth's Jukes: why bitcoin could cause disruption
Robert Jukes, global strategist at Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management offers Wealth Manager an insight into his investment thinking and outlines the potential impact of the rise of crypto-currencies.
04/15/2014
Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Officer Brady Dougan could take a lesson from Zurich neighbor UBS AG as he seeks to boost his company’s stock: scale down the investment bank.
04/15/2014
One hundred years after Americans first filed income taxes under the Sixteenth Amendment, Big Wealth is back.
04/14/2014
Elections are strange beasts.
04/11/2014
Increasing capital requirements are pushing banks to find new revenue streams such as wealth management, which with its fee-based advice and wealthy clients is quickly becoming a new industry favourite
04/11/2014
Speech by Mr Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, prepared for a lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School
04/10/2014
Tax really CAN be taxing!
How easy is it to trip up in tax? A recent case shows that even the simple things can be confusing to the taxpayer, and he pays the penalty.
04/09/2014
JPMorgan's future still remains bright
04/09/2014
Wealth managers have warned that earnings in their own sector could be subjected to downwards pressure this year as fee competition bites.
04/09/2014
Alternative managers also had higher operating profits
04/08/2014
Funds too lame rather than too big to fail: James Saft
These have the potential to turn idiosyncratic market frictions into systemic market failures.