10/05/2016
Standard Life Investments - Weekly Economic Briefing - Riding mini cycles
It has been a rotten 18 months for the global trade and production cycle.
Comment & Analysis
10/04/2016
Private bankers, you have worse coming. Don’t fight it
First, there was FATCA, or the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which made it obligatory for financial institutions around the world to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens and report them to the Internal Revenue Service.
10/04/2016
Unleashing China’s Untapped Wealth
Releasing pent-up demand for international assets would raise domestic incomes, but only if the market is free to work.
10/04/2016
Chinese banks sail into uncharted waters as they expand globally
The slap on the wrist comes as domestic Chinese banks are poised to accelerate their overseas expansion over the next five years as they follow their clients abroad.
10/04/2016
How to remove the funds blockage in Asian private banking
It ultimately resulted in interviews with 38 individuals representing 23 private banks in Hong Kong and Singapore
10/04/2016
Singapore luxury property 'cheap' for rich multinational buyers, pros say
Singapore's extremely-high-end properties are now cheap compared with similar luxury properties in other major capital cities
10/03/2016
Top 10 tips, 50 years on by Penny Lovell
"You slaved for your savings – now make them do the same for you" – Money Mail September 28th 1966
10/03/2016
Crisis fatigue by Tm Price
We’re living in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking. But in government, education, food, religion, journalism, prisons, baseball...
10/03/2016
Doing the right thing for a bruised industry
This is clearly a strong statement.
10/03/2016
NAB Aims for Simpler Wealth Model
NAB will continue to use the MLC brand in providing super, investments, advice and life insurance, and will continue to distribute MLC Life Insurance products through its network.
09/30/2016
Cayman Islands: Five Reasons For Placing One's Trust In – Well, Trusts
For many the word "trust", when used to describe a type of asset-holding device, has recently become synonymous with "tax reduction"
09/30/2016
Increasingly global UK investment hub revealed as Brexit preparations begin
The ownership of UK based asset managers is also increasingly international.
09/30/2016
Wealth of people in their 30s has 'halved in a decade
Those born in the early 1980s have an average wealth of £27,000 each, against the £53,000 those born in the 1970s had by the same age
09/30/2016
Sofia Vergara Tops Forbes Rich List Beating Kaley Cuoco, Stana Katic, Kerry Washington
Apart from her here are other actresses whose names are there in the list.
09/30/2016
Buxton: Trump will win US electio
That all points to me to steeper yield curves.
09/29/2016
How wealth managers can change their business models
The research shows that four out of 10 clients are open to switching wealth managers under the right circumstances.
09/28/2016
Private Client 2016: Trust and Advisory Services Analysis
In this section, we have identified 149 of the leading trustees, private bankers, accountants and investment managers that service the private client industry worldwide.
09/28/2016
Banks typically reject 6-15 percent of would-be clients - survey
Only 5 percent showed the door to more than 25 percent of potential clients.
09/28/2016
The last thing Deutsche Bank needs now is to become a political football
That Germany’s largest bank is in trouble
09/28/2016
Central bankers’ pursuit of inflation targets is pushing policy further - Standard Life Investments
Since the crisis, and as policy rates fell toward zero, a whole range of new unconventional policies have been adopted in the name of inflation-targeting.