07/22/2018
Per ardua ad astra by Tim Price
As the economist Tim Harford points out, one of the firms competing for the RAF contract, Supermarine, delivered its prototype late and below specification.
Comment & Analysis
07/22/2018
Korean Firm "Finds" Wrecked Warship and Trove of Gold
A South Korean construction company, Dong-Ah Construction, claimed to have found the wreck of the Donskoii in the early 2000s
07/20/2018
What Is Prince Harry’s Net Worth?
Yes, we’ve learned that his new wife Meghan Markle’s net worth is estimated at around $5 million.
07/20/2018
Revealed: what products wealth managers want
Fund houses also do product roadshows for existing products and often discuss how we are using them and what we are looking for.
07/20/2018
Generation Wealth review – how rich is too rich?
Lauren Greenfield’s frustrating documentary about the super-wealthy makes grotesques of her interviewees and offers no real analysis
07/20/2018
Queen's Bank Backs UK and Russian Equities
UK and Russian stocks are attractively valued contrarian opportunities, according to Coutts, which is banking on both to outperform
07/19/2018
‘Embrace technology to grow your wealth’
The other two were Digi enterprise product marketing head Khairan Nasir and RHB Group Transaction Banking head Chung Chee Kai.
07/19/2018
The Art of the Deal-by-Deal by Marc Parrott, Harneys
The low cost of rolling out new Portfolios make an SPC a potentially preferable structure to creating entirely separate companies each time that a particular underlying deal is proposed.
07/19/2018
Are private banks snubbing Hong Kong’s ETFs?
Most private banks in Hong Kong, which are usually regional or international banks, follow a standard when it comes to putting funds on their shelves, Quah explained.
07/19/2018
Anson: Here are the latest Bordeaux vineyard prices
Vineyard buyouts reached a 25-year high in France in 2017, according to the latest figures from France's land agency.
07/19/2018
Wall Street legend Sallie Krawcheck tackles gender investing gap
Sallie Krawcheck was dubbed the most powerful woman on Wall Street. Now she's redefining investing for women.
07/17/2018
Coutts Quarterly Investment Update
In amongst the noise around trade, political instability in Europe and a particularly fractious G7 conference, there were some points worth noting.
07/17/2018
Guernsey: A laboratory of innovation
One of the requirements has been to innovate and to develop new products in new markets
07/17/2018
Guernsey is a “heart valve” for private equity industry
Most private equity is raising money pretty effectively – the single biggest challenge is how to deploy it effectively
07/17/2018
New research cautions banks on exiting wealth
The Roy Morgan research found that one third of wealth management customers who were in the top 20 per cent of the market by value had used a financial planner
07/16/2018
Team work? It’s all Greek to me! by Penny Lovell
Speaking of successful teams and winning strategies, the champagne corks have been flying at Sanlam once again.
07/16/2018
Investment banks thought they were smart enough to predict the World Cup. They weren't
It has become a tradition to make predictions using sophisticated AI and statistical modeling ... but its track record falls flat
07/16/2018
Lloyd’s correctly predicts World Cup result for second time
It is the second consecutive time that Lloyd’s predicts the World Cup winner.
07/16/2018
Huge jump in number of super-rich immigrants applying for UK investor visas
Intended changes to US investor visas are making the UK more attractive for the ultra-wealthy, lawyers said
07/13/2018
US-China trade war may affect overall deal appetite: Brenda Lau of Indosuez
Brenda Lau, senior director and head of Indosuez, says the wealth management firm has taken a cautious approach to doing PE deals in India