10/17/2016
Michael Benz: «Adapt or Vanish in a New World of Private Banking»
High-quality NNM is not easy to get any longer.
Comment & Analysis
10/16/2016
How Machine Learning is Changing Data Management and Investment Processes for Active Managers by Martijn Groot, VP Marketing and Strategy, Asset Control
It's a small trading firm with computing power similar to the world's top supercomputers.
10/14/2016
Trashed: $61.8 Million in Pocket Change
All those pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars that end up lost add up to about $61.8 million a year
10/14/2016
Billionaires had a rough year in 2015 - relatively
Two decades of unparalleled fortune generation are about to make way for the greatest wealth transfer in history, the study also found.
10/14/2016
Political Uncertained Dominates Markets by Justin Urquhart Stewart
This latest set of investment views has been issued on the back of the strong market rally that started in June and took many investors by surprise.
10/13/2016
Inside track to world of the mega-rich
Private client lawyers operate in a world of art, superyachts, and divorces
10/13/2016
A New Scrutiny on Swiss Banks
The shutting down Falcon Bank and BSI on fraud charges linked to 1MDB highlights how they must now be more open about how clients made their wealth.
10/13/2016
What Asia’s Rich Want from Wealth Managers
As well as the fastest pace of growth in the number and wealth of high net worth individuals.
10/13/2016
The importance of making investments with a difference
Green investments have grown in popularity in recent years
10/13/2016
Africa, Asia show increased interest in SA property
The reason for this shift, he says, is that foreigners buying in SA are generally not buying primary residences, but holiday homes or investment properties.
10/12/2016
Almost two-in five millennials choose to spend now rather than save or invest for the future
Younger people unconvinced of the need to save for their future, research from Investec has found.
10/12/2016
The City exodus is already happening. It just doesn’t look like you expect it to
The UK Government understood the importance of the City and was taking the bankers’ concerns on board
10/11/2016
New Beginnings For Wells Fargo
We have worked extremely hard to establish our presence in the Chicago market.
10/11/2016
Robo-advisory in banking: do you trust a robot’s financial advice?
Can computers really replace humans in providing good financial advice?
10/11/2016
Wealth management industry is ripe for disruption by Craig Hanna
It’s widely accepted, in both technology and financial services circles, that the wealth management sector lags behind other financial services sectors when it comes to embracing Fintech and Innovation. But now it’s becoming urgent.
10/11/2016
St. James’s Place – Sterling’s recoil
Sterling dropped in response to Theresa May’s Article 50 announcement and European leaders were critical in their response to the pursuit of a ‘hard Brexit’.
10/11/2016
For How Long Can OPEC Talk Up Oil Prices? By Julianne Geiger, Oilprice.com
Of course, there are 400,000 different possible production cut figures included in this "up to 400,000" range—including a big fat zero—so fundamentally speaking, like so much of the OPEC speak, this could mean nothing.
10/11/2016
UBS' Weber warns on danger of 'massive interventions' from central banks
Weber, who was president of the German Bundesbank between 2004 and 2011
10/11/2016
Beware oil-price over-optimism by Jason Hollands, Tilney Bestinvest
So investors might well ask whether it is time to put a little “Black Gold” back into their portfolios?
10/10/2016
Swiss Bank That ’Discovered’ U.S. Picks China Over Weak Europe
Europe is facing at least another decade of ultra low interest rates