02/14/2014

Big Spenders: The Rise Of The Spend-Out Foundation

The study of philanthropy is an imprecise science and there is no formula that can predict why a wealthy individual would decide to give and to which causes, much less why they would decide it’s time to stop.

02/14/2014

Offshore Deal Activity Rose Steadily in 2013

Quarter by quarter offshore deal volumes rose steadily throughout 2013, resulting in a cumulative 12-month deal value topped only three times in the last decade, according to a report released today by Appleby, one of the world’s largest providers o

02/11/2014

Swiss multi-asset manager goes East

Independent alternative multi-asset management firm headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been going through many transformations since the crisis of 2008.

02/11/2014

Coutts Insights: Emerging-m​arket crisis is just talk

Many people are suggesting that the recent volatility in emerging markets will trigger a repeat of the 1994 or 1998 crises. We don’t think this is the case. This is not an emerging world in huge debt to the rest of the world – and in fact some

02/11/2014

Dear Tax Professional – How was it for you?

There was a big sigh of relief on Friday from tax professionals involved in completing tax returns for individuals, having worked long into the January evenings and weekends.

02/10/2014

Value, in four charts by Tim Price

Fed and ECB policies aim to reassure financial market participants rather than keeping them guessing. In the “good old days”, before quantitative easing, forward guidance and zero real interest rates, investors, asset managers, traders and ban

02/10/2014

A Lesson for Today’s Shadow Bankers—From 1763

Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase and Gerald Hassell’s Bank of New York Mellon could learn a thing or two from a financial crisis that occurred some time ago—in 1763, to be precise.