06/06/2018
According to Bailin, clients who had followed Citi's global asset allocation recommendations outperformed those who did not by up to 200-300 basis points per year for between one and three years.
06/06/2018
Dalio said in January that the bond market had slipped into a bear phase and warned that a rise in yields could spark the biggest crisis for fixed-income investors in almost 40 years.
06/06/2018
There are two main rates in South Africa – the repo rate and the prime lending rate.
06/06/2018
Many clients fear outliving their money and not being able to leave anything for their kids.
06/06/2018
The paper also illustrates how the tax neutrality offered by IFCs benefits investors and countries in terms of investment in infrastructure, wealth creation and future prosperity.
06/06/2018
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which runs the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, favors dividing the roles of CEO and chairman to boost corporate governance.
06/05/2018
While cryptocurrencies have largely been seen by their proponents as a challenge to the traditional banking system
06/04/2018
Giuseppe Conte, a law professor, will become Prime Minister even though he has never held public office.
06/04/2018
And when we looked into our organization and defined our purpose, we set out Nedbank’s purpose as to use our financial expertise, that’s what bankers have.
06/04/2018
You don’t want your child to be too stressed, but you do want them to be stressed just enough to do some work and pass exams that will keep their future options open.
06/04/2018
We suggested recently that the EU was a kind of magical mirror, in which observers saw what they wanted to see, as opposed to what was really there.
06/01/2018
Wealth managers with retail-banking affiliates can reasonably assume that new standards on the effective management of customer complaints and employee allegations will be applied at the enterprise level to universal banks.
06/01/2018
For now, one thing is evident: cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile, with the potential for enormous swings in either direction almost instantaneously.
05/31/2018
Freshly minted high-net-worth clients require more than just an investment plan.
05/31/2018
ILS business in London has been slow taking off to date, Guernsey practitioners heard on a roadshow earlier this year, which took in visits to lawyers and industry representatives in both London and Zurich.
05/30/2018
Everything you need to know about offshore banking
If done properly, an offshore bank account is a simple, secure and extremely smart choice to keep your hard-earned cash safe
05/29/2018
Guardian study reveals how wealth of nearly 70 colleges is held in estates, endowments and artworks
05/29/2018
“In a dysfunctional monetary union, you pick your poison.”- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Daily Telegraph, 24 May 2018, ‘Juncker’s ‘torture tools’ are useless against Italy’s well-armed uprising’.
05/29/2018
Business of all shapes and sizes will have to change and adapt to cope with this significant societal change.
05/29/2018
A prudent government budget has enabled the country to hold its government debt to GDP ratio at the very low levels