03/17/2016
Swiss FinTech Report 2016
"Swiss FinTech Report 2016 - The role of Switzerland as a FinTech hub" has been released by Swiss FinTech, the Swiss Finance + Technology Association together with EY.
Research
03/17/2016
PwC: Banking Execs Fear Risk Due to Fintech Innovation & Disruption
Some statistics include: Incumbents believe 23% of their business could be at risk
03/17/2016
Deregulation slowdown poses biggest challenge to UBS in China
UBS wants more of the QDII quota made available in the market so that the Swiss bank can offer products from global markets, she added.
03/17/2016
How Trusts And Estates Lawyers Can Double Their Revenues In A Year
Trusts and estates practices are – or certainly can be – exceedingly lucrative for the lawyer and the law firm. For example, with the boom in private wealth creation, there is a growing need to address intergenerational wealth transfers. At th
03/16/2016
Supply glut stalling out luxury resi market
Rather, real estate consultant Nancy Packes told the Times, rich buyers may have simply already left the market, deciding the time to buy had passed.
03/16/2016
Top 400 Billionaires’ Wealth Rises to $3.896 Trillion
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index takes measure of the world’s wealthiest people based on market and economic changes and Bloomberg News reporting. Each net worth figure is updated
03/16/2016
Wealth managers on the fence despite commodities shift
BofA Merrill Lynch’s Fund Manager Survey recorded the biggest monthly jump in allocation to commodities on record in February, so who’s buying and who’s staying clear?
03/16/2016
Emerging market debt - a class of its own - Van Eck
To maximise the opportunities in emerging market debt, Van Eck takes an unconstrained approach to EM hard currency, EM local currency, and EM corporate debt.
03/15/2016
Emirates Investment Bank publishes third annual GCC Wealth Insight Report
Face-to-face interviews were held in each country between September and November 2015 among the national population as well as expatriates.
03/15/2016
Credit Suisse hopes rich mix drives rally
International wealth management, which covers private banking and asset management outside Switzerland but excluding Asia, is one of three divisions expected to power the turnround — the other two being the Swiss “universal” bank, and th
03/15/2016
Manchester United seeks to build brand in Asia with Gulf Oil tie-up
The club expects revenue for the year to hit 500 million pounds which would be a first for a British club.
03/15/2016
Key Concerns Of Trust And Estate Lawyers
Many trusts and estates lawyers see their world in transition with the final evolutionary form uncertain.
03/15/2016
London house prices: Iranian billionaire investors poised to splurge £6bn on properties around the world - and London is one of the top destinations
The top five most popular locations within London are expected to be the usual suspects: Knightsbridge, Mayfair, South Kensington, Hampstead and St John’s Wood.
03/15/2016
Single-Family Offices Increasingly Find Private Equity Investments Appealing
The single-family offices in the study are heavily committed to the asset class, with 92 percent of respondents investing upwards of 10 percent of their overall portfolio in private equity.
03/15/2016
A million dollars equals a 58 sq m home in Beijing
As domestic market growth slows down and more investment approaches are made available, it can be expected that properties in key western markets will continue being the target for Asian individual investors.
03/15/2016
Merrill Pumps Up Alts Offerings for UHNWs
The SAM program also seeks out other types of private commercial real estate deals.
03/15/2016
Rise in number of wealthy Malaysians looking to migrate
The figure is second only to China, where 32% of its UHNWIs are looking to migrate.
03/15/2016
Risk appetite of GCC investors decline
Survey shows 76 per cent of high net worth individuals prefer to keep their assets close to home
03/15/2016
Revealed: Scotland’s largest aristocratic landowner holds land in offshore tax haven
The aristocratic estate, run by Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, confirmed that an offshore ownership group, Pentland Limited, acts as an offshore contact to the family’s vast land business empire.
03/14/2016
Fund manager migration to Jersey highlighted as exciting trend at annual conference
The net asset value of funds under administration in Jersey grew over the final quarter of last year to stand at $334bn