02/04/2015
E-commerce as a share of total retail sales may soon be larger in emerging markets than in developed countries. The demand in the nine countries surveyed by Credit Suisse is driven by expanding incomes and rising Internet access.
02/04/2015
Then there’s also the royalties he gets from books he has written
02/04/2015
In a note first released in December, JLL said Asian and Middle Eastern investors allocated $10bn-$12bn in 2013 in real estate outside their home markets.
02/04/2015
A number of the regulatory hot topics I expect to be prominent this year have been around a while already. Certainly, suitability of advice to clients and the costs of providing that advice will remain at the top of the pile.
02/04/2015
The most debilitating aspect of overpricing failure is not the consequences of any particular failure event, but the double whammy that the pervasive fear of failure creates.
02/03/2015
Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are twice as likely to describe themselves as pessimistic than their Millennial counterparts.
02/02/2015
Singapore Millionaires Aim For Asia-Pacific Domination
Singapore may soon become the prime location for private banking in Asia-Pacific, if political tensions in Hong Kong continue to buildSingapore may soon become the prime location for private banking in Asia-Pacific, if political tensions in Hong Kong cont
02/02/2015
“The wealth management industry has undergone significant operational shifts as a result of changes in financial regulations and the increased role of technology”
01/30/2015
Global High-Net-Worth Clients’ Financial Activity Hits All-Time High
High-Net-Worth (HNW) clients worldwide are managing their finances at the highest levels since 2011
01/30/2015
Britain is home to 840,000 people who are dollar millionaires with £660,000 or more excluding their main home a combined wealth of $3.5tn
01/30/2015
Singapore is arguably the Asia Pacific centre for private banking, one of many niches it has carved out of Hong Kong’s capital markets dominance over the last 10 years.
01/30/2015
Tokyo named the world’s safest city, according to The Economist’s 2015 Safe Cities Index, followed bySingapore and Osaka in second and third position respectively.
01/30/2015
Affluents define luxury products as both expensive and possessing quality
01/30/2015
The far-reaching annual study has ranked 81 jurisdictions across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas according to how complex they are to do business in from a regulatory and compliance perspective.
01/29/2015
2015 appears likely to continue the deal-making momentum we experienced in 2014
01/29/2015
The US is the country with the highest level of millionaires in the world at 5.23 million in 2013, more than Japan (2.17 million), Germany (1.38 million) and China (1.28 million) combined.
01/29/2015
Several private banking firms, such as Barclays Wealth Management, RBC Wealth Management and Kotak Mahindra Private Banking, have already been providing services to the children of the super rich.
01/29/2015
The survey said about 60 percent of companies predicted 2015 bonus levels would be similar to 2014, although 20 percent expected levels to increase from last year.
01/28/2015
32 percent of Millennials expect to use mobile wallets this year, more than half intend to use alternative payment services and 23 percent are considering a peer-to-peer loan
01/28/2015
They are being produced in collaboration with the AIMA Investor Steering Committee, a group of leading institutional investors globally with approximately $150 billion invested in hedge funds.