Managers of Wealth

Gold buying by central banks hits its highest level in almost three years

The buying was offset by heavy selling of gold-backed funds during the same period.

Lessons in workplace stress from 2000 years ago

If not managed and resolved early, all of this can lead to claims to the Employment Tribunal, with all the disruption, extra costs and reputational damage that they can inflict.

Analysis Reveals Need to Be Wary of Cyclical Risks and Prepare for Next Downturn - RESEARCH

The research shows that while long-term optimism remains, today's mature economic environment demands that investors evaluate how turning points in the cycle might lead to unexpected outcomes, even in diversified portfolios.

Sustainable investing assets reach $12 trillion

Sustainable investing assets reach $12 trillion as reported by the US SIF Foundation’s

Standard Chartered study reveals investment is the emerging affluent’s top strategy to increase their wealth

The socially mobile in the study have had impressive earnings growth, with over a third (35%) enjoying a salary increase of 10% or more in the past year, and more than a quarter (28%) seeing their earnings jump by 50% or more in the past five years.

Will Cost Disclosure Be The ‘Halloween’ of MIFID II?

January 2019 is the month set for the first annual report for ex-post costs and charges disclosure, covering trades occurring in 2018.

In China, golf has come to encapsulate a country grappling with its own identity

Golf maps China’s emerging bubbles of individual wealth like ancient cartography, plotting divides in class and culture as courses erode ever further into the landscape, writes Tom Kershaw

Differential temporal salience of earning and saving

Colors predicting savings, whether they acquired either negative or positive value, persisted in their posteriority.

Danske Bank drops to last place in private banking survey: Prospera

The scandal led to the resignation of the bank’s former chief executive and the almost halving of Danske Bank’s share price since February.

How much a pint of beer costs around the world

Major European and US cities then jostle for position depending on the product/service.

How to Use Donor-Advised Funds to Make Impact Investments

There’s a vast missed opportunity to use DAFs for making impact investments in support of market-based solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Making sustainable investing mainstream could be the key to solving the world's most critical problems

Businesses are facing intense pressure to cut down their packaging and consumers are acting in their own small ways to make a difference.

There’s a reverse gender gap in philanthropy

High-net-worth households gave an average of $29,269 to charity in 2017

Majority of Investors Think All Advisors Make the Same Promises - RESEARCH

The study, conducted by The Harris Poll, mined the websites of Barron's Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors for 2017 and then surveyed over 1,000 high net worth investors to find out what investors think about the value statements of these firms.

The Wealth Tricks of China's Rich

The skirmish comes shortly after the bank vowed to expand in China, mainly in wealth management.

Wanda Ferragamo, 96, Dies; Reigned Over Family’s Luxury Goods Empire

Over five decades, first as president and then as chairwoman, Mrs. Ferragamo oversaw the growth of the company

Malta and Austria Are Home to the World’s Best Investment Migration Programs

The programs were evaluated by a distinguished panel of independent experts — including immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, sovereign risk experts, and academic researchers — who took into account a broad range of factors pertaini

Consumers shunning wealth management services

Only 30 per cent of respondents across all generations identified banks as somewhere they would go for investment advice.

Sallie Krawcheck: This is the biggest challenge going from a cushy corporate gig to a start-up

But no one can really prepare you for the intense stress that comes along with running a start-up, she says, and the stress that comes with losing money on a daily basis.

The rich are richer than they've ever been

In the 1960s, wealthy families had one or maybe two homes, and now they tend to have four or five, Greenberg told Business Insider.

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