Managers of Wealth

$1 trillion: Wealth estimate of assets UAE has built

The index quantifies the accumulated wealth of 30 countries’ built assets and takes into account the value of all the public and private property and infrastructure in a countr

How multi-asset managers are coping with spooked investors

Bonds and cash are no longer safe havens, they guarantee a loss.

Banking System Not Yet Fit to Cope With a Lehman 2.0: Bundesbanker

Five years after the collapse Lehman Brothers, the European financial system is still not equipped to cope with a bank failure of a similar magnitude

Aberdeen Asia Pacific: 'Turmoil comes with the territory', says Hugh Young who has delivered bumper returns

He steered the fund and its investors through problems such as the 1997 Asian crisis

Executive Excess 2013, "Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted"

IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.

US Investment Bank Expands into Russia

New York-based investment bank Jefferies Group LLC plans to hire up to four investment bankers for its first Moscow office

Educating non-doms – HMRC does a U-turn

Having previously considered that non-doms who are paying tax on the remittance basis are well enough advised, HMRC has performed a U-turn and sent them letters to remind them of the rules anyway.

Secret euro flights to Cyprus

It was carrying €5 billion in notes-not a bailout, but an epic logistical effort to sate the Cypriot desire for paper money

Emerging markets pummelled as fear over Syrian crisis grows

Concern that probable military strikes by Western powers against Syria could cause upheaval in the Middle East pushed oil up by more than $2 a barrel on Wednesday

Eurozone is heading for relapse back into crisis

Austerity has failed to bring public finances and debt under control.

Global Finance ranks National Bank of Abu Dhabi 35th in the world

National Bank of Abu Dhabi has been named the safest bank in the Middle East by Global Finance, a leading finance publication, which ranked the Abu Dhabi-based lender 35th safest in the world.

In banking, too much simplicity can be dangerous - Peter Sands

Overly simple regulation will make banks and the industry more prone to crisis, says Peter Sands

Extended hours are the norm for Asia's bankers

A survey of professionals in Singapore's financial services industry shows that more than three quarters work over and above their contracted hours

Experts play down new Asian financial crisis fear

Plunging emerging market currencies on the prospect of US stimulus tapering have stirred memories of the 1997 Asian financial crisis

Global View from Asia - "Europe has its day" - Gary Dugan, Coutts

Markets remain nervous ahead of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting in September, and we expect equities to remain within their current trading range until then.

Five Years After TARP, Misgivings on Bonuses

There was such a total lack of awareness from the firms that paid big bonuses during this extraordinary time.

The Financial Services World Has Changed – And Not For the Better

The Financial Services Authority’s Retail Distribution Review came in at the beginning of this year.

The lie about capitalism - why capitalism is not the cause of but the solution to the financial crisis

Financial and economic crises have become more frequent since the late 1990s.

Key Challenges and Issues Shaping the Banking Industry - KPMG

Culture of embracing change – In today's environment, change is constant, so banks must be nimble and innovative.

Google, Facebook challenge global banks

The competitors of tomorrow will not be large scale banks, they will concentrate on the single aspects of retail bankin

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