Managers of Wealth

Explosion in Global Luxury Housing Markets

The Bahamas Real Estate market matched the world in witnessing an increase in significant high end sales with the movement of large private islands and luxury homes

UBS Investor Watch Report Reveals Couples Say They Share Financial Decisions, but Not Investing Decisions

Money is a hot topic because men and women often have differing views about risk tolerance, investing and saving

How tech companies become billion-dollar giants - McKinsey

Software and online-services companies can quickly become billion-dollar giants, but the recipe for sustained growth remains elusive.

Who is Asia's Richest Self-made Entrepreneur?

The combined wealth of the seven individuals from Hong Kong and mainland China is US$128.7 billion, nearly 70% of the total wealth of the 10 men on the list.

European Bank CEO pay surges in 2013

Gulliver took home more money in 2013

Demand For Global Citizenship Programmes Primarily From Mideast, But Asia Is The Next Frontier

These are some of the key findings of a joint special report released today by Wealth-X, the world’s leading UHNW intelligence and prospecting firm, and Arton Capital, the global citizenships experts, at a Dubai forum on global citizenships.

Investors Say Wealth Comes from Hard Work

Hard work, education and smart investing are the top three choices by investors

Gold and Silver at major investment cycle lows according to Charteris CEO Ian Williams

“Our expectation is for Gold to reach its next peak in December 2020. We see this as an excellent buying opportunity.”

Need for Global Philanthropy Extremely Urgent

The answers were analysed using three main criteria

Gap between investment expectations and reality widens

The gap between investors’ income expectations and the actual returns they receive has grown over the last year.

State-Registered Banks the Fastest Growing Bank Wealth Management Segment

"Despite the post-crisis damage to the reputations of many major investment banks, investors continue to turn to bank trusts for long-term multigenerational wealth strategies," comments Donnie Ethier, associate director at Cerulli.

Wealth management sector faces unprecedented change

Consolidation activity among wealth management companies set to rise as the pain of complying with the Retail Distribution Review bites further into U.K. wealth manager viability

Tech giants pose threat to fund houses

The likelihood of technology giants entering the fund market has increased as many of these groups have accessed the financial services arena through online payment businesses.

Billionaires fuel business jet sales in China

China's business jet market is set to grow 23% a year as the number of the country's multi-billionaires is set to double, reports our sister paper Want Dail

The Bumble Bee and the Chrysanthemum: Comparing Sweden and Japan’s Responses to Financial Crisis

Reinhart and Rogoff’s influential book, This Time is Different (2009), argues that financial crises over the past eight centuries have had similar causes and consequences across diverse societies.

Sovereign and Quasi-Sovereign issuers drive the global primary sukuk market in 1Q-2014 - Research

According to a newly released report "Global Sukuk Report 1Q2014" by Kuwait Finance House Research Limited, the global sukuk market saw a modest volume of USD31.14bln in new sukuk issuances in 1Q2014.

Private investment up by 13.3 pct in 2013

The affluent were defined by personal investment capital, which ranged from 0.6 million yuan to 6 million yuan.

Nearly 40% of Investors Indicate an Increased Need for Investment Advice

Rather than fighting over those investors who have already engaged with a provider, Cerulli believes the real opportunity for providers to substantially increase their marketshare is to address those in the middle segment who are unsure of the value of ad

World economy: Steady as she goes - EFG

For the world economy, the overall assessment so far in 2014 is one of ‘steady as she goes’. Economic growth is firm, if unspectacular. Encouragingly, it is being helped by a pick-up in global trade and prospects on that front remain good.

92pc of affluent consumers made online purchase in Q4 of 2013: report

Affluent consumers were 73 percent more likely than non-affluent consumers to make a purchase on luxury brand retail Web sites during the fourth quarter of 2013