Managers of Wealth

DIFC overhauls family office regulations

Following the creation of a private wealth centre in August 2022

HMRC frauds circulating ahead of tax return deadline

Remember that criminals rely on you being panicked or flustered and they are skilled at extracting sensitive information.

Finma lodges 27 criminal complaints for unlicensed portfolio managers and trustees

The regulator has also put 153 companies on its warning list.

Four Carey Olsen partners named 'Top Recommended Offshore Experts' in Spear's 500 2023

The rankings are the product of research carried out by the Spear's Research Unit, and comprises in-person and telephone interviews, peer reviews, analysis from subject matter experts and information gathered from clients, advisers and firms themselv

Barclays and UBS face questions over Roman Abramovich’s billion-dollar trusts

Exclusive: Leak shows oligarch was a major client of Barclays in Monaco and UBS in Zurich, with at least $940m in assets held at the banks

Harneys wins Caribbean Law Firm of the Year - Citywealth IFC

The winners are those judged to have excelled in achievement, innovation, expertise, and service.

FCA Consumer Duty review shows industry cannot let up on implementation plans

Time is ticking in terms of getting processes and actions in place and this review highlights that as an industry we cannot take our foot off the gas.

Don’t Blame The Bank, Merrill Boss Says

Make no mistake, Bank of America has propelled the Merrill Lynch business forward.

U.S. asset managers gear up to raise money in volatile China

Fidelity International and Neuberger Berman make new regulatory filings

Finma License Gives Arve Asset Management a Boost

Managing director Michel Fest said the company can now celebrate the two important milestones with the Finma authorization and the acquisition of the fund.

Japanese Insurer Sued Over Van Gogh Painting

They claim in the filing that Sompo had wrongfully benefited from the Sunflowers painting for many years while both knowing that the painting is a casualty of Nazi policies and falsely misrepresenting that it is not.

Capital gains tax takings reach record level

Data obtained through FOI by private equity firm Growthdeck and provided to Spear’s shows that in the year to October 2022 the government increased its annual total CGT receipts by 27.5 per cent, up to £15.3 billion.

CS First Boston – Payday For the Klein Brothers

Klein's boutique will be merged with CS First Boston to which Credit Suisse plans to outsource large parts of its international investment banking and sell it to third parties in a further step.

Brazil: Once the dust settles, market focus will return to economic policies

From an investment perspective, although these unfortunate events of violence may make Brazilian assets volatile in the near term, we expect any impact to be short-lived.

UK Regulatory Horizon Scanning Update: Q4 2022

The FCA are seeking views on their proposed rules to introduce a new financial resilience regulatory return for solo-regulated firms.

H2O AM hit with record fine over Windhorst-linked investments

€100m in total

QE infinity set the stage for ‘funky businesses out of the Bahamas’: Mussie Kidane

The Pictet North American Advisors chief investment officer said that 2022 had been a radical rupture from the previous era.

JPMorgan bankers try to lure away Morgan Stanley’s tax fund clients

Banks both offer tax-loss harvesting, which has boomed in popularity on Wall Street this year

Top 5 Tax Strategies Used By Millionaires

One key strategy millionaires deploy when using this method is doing so in a way that ensures the original business and the management company have different fiscal year ends.

Leonteq reaches settlement in previously disclosed legacy litigation matter and provides business update

In the second half of 2022 to date, Leonteq continued to register reduced client demand on the back of an overall challenging market environment but recorded stable monthly net fee income over the same period.

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