Managers of Wealth

Investing in the Middle East – why we should by Taimoor Labib, Standard Chartered

When I first landed as a financier in the Middle East, nearly 10 years ago, there was much optimism about investment in the region.

Bite-coin: Making a Meal out of Money by Toby Birch

One of the topics I had previously been researching was the potential for creating our own digital currency, as a hedge against the damaging effects of Sterling’s devaluation, courtesy of Quantitative Easing.

Branko Milanovic's Elegant Thought Experiment About Wealth Inequality

And he’s an elegant little thought experiment over what exactly is wealth.

Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers

The darling buds of May

Psigma: Same ol’ Story - Becket on the USA

Greetings from the US of A.

So you thought you could stop worrying about a mansion tax? by Gary Heynes

While fears over the mansion tax may have subsided, could the new government raise other property taxes to grab a share of rising house prices?

Should You Invest in Rwanda? by James Timpson

“In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.” (Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda)

SJP comments on the first escalating fines for automatic enrolment failure

Ian Price, divisional director at St. James’s Place, comments on the recent fines issued by the Pensions Regulator over automatic enrolment failure:

St. James's Place Market Bulletin

The world’s financial markets have vacillated in recent weeks and the past seven days produced little evidence of a firmer direction. Renewed anxieties over the US economic recovery restored some stability to bond markets, while the S&P 500 inde

Major drag, huh ? by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management

“We’re not gonna make it, are we ? People, I mean.”

Highly Profitable Practices For Accounting Firms

Wealth management is a practice area some accounting firms have done very well with

Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers

They were all invented in China during the Song dynasty (960-1127 A.D.) Another - albeit less famous - invention also took place at that time.

Vampire CEOs Continue To Suck Blood

As the economy continues to struggle in the seventh year of its supposed recovery after the Great Recession–despite unprecedented amounts of free government money from the Fed–CEO compensation continues to soar

Asset managers often side with management on controversial issues, ShareAction report says

The investment charity's report Asset Manager Voting Practices: In Whose Interests? examined the voting records of the UK's 33 largest asset managers at company AGMs in 2014

'Investors in China face a bruising fall to earth', says Thomas Miller Investment

With China having enjoyed a significant bull run recently, is the bubble about to burst?

It may sound like something out of a Tolkien story by Justin Urquhart Stewart

The Battle for the Three Unions

Female chiefs may be unfairly targeted but, just like the men, they're overpaid

Outlook Is the fuss over Katherine Garrett-Cox – the way in which she has been running Alliance Trust, and her pay – yet another example of sexism in the City, as she has claimed?

Could the fizz from this Hampshire vineyard rival Champagne?

Hambledon Vineyard in Hampshire is on course to make a million bottles of British bubbly a year

Ian Gibbs, Admirals Cup champion dies at 87

Ian Gibbs, one of New Zealand's top offshore owner/skippers, has died at the age of 87 years.

Inside the mind of an international adviser

David Howell, chief executive at Guardian Wealth Management, talks through some of the everyday considerations of an international adviser.

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