10/24/2014
How To Lose $20 Million: The Sudden Wealth Problems of Professional Athletes
How could someone lose $20 million in a year?
Comment & Analysis
10/23/2014
Rodney FitzGerald on diversifying revenue at Walker Crips
Investors are constantly being told to diversify, so shouldn’t the same argument apply to running a business? Walker Crips chief executive Rodney FitzGerald thinks so.
10/23/2014
Termination payments – is complexity sometimes a price worth paying? by Andrew Hubbard, Baker Tilly
As tax advisers we rightly pride ourselves on our knowledge of the UK tax system.
10/23/2014
Home, but not free by Glyn Owen, Investment Director at Momentum Global Investment Management
As we surface from the financial crisis, it is clear that the conditions we face today are no less extraordinary than those we have faced in recent years.
10/22/2014
Good wealth advisers are hard to find
A good investment adviser is a tricky set of skills to hire, and high-end financial advice firms are struggling to find the right talent at present.
10/20/2014
European asset managers gear up for second act in the US
What has proved less clear, however, is how the Europeans can become household names able to compete with well-known domestic American managers.
10/20/2014
The Sum of All Fears by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Last week we saw a bursting of some of the complacency of the past few months.
10/20/2014
Why BPES, the next acronym the finance industry will have to worry about, with boost AIFM registrations
Luxembourg is the largest investment fund centre in Europe and the second largest in the world after the US.
10/19/2014
When you are super-rich who can you trust?
They may have yachts, fancy cars and private jets. But pity the super rich. They’re miserable.
10/17/2014
FATCA – Uncle Sam’s very long arm of the law by Gary Heynes and Joan Foster, Baker Tilly
After David Cameron hinted earlier this week that inheritance tax should not apply to people who didn’t feel ‘mega-rich’, why can’t this logic apply to higher rate taxpayers?
10/17/2014
Yellow Umbrellas by Geoff Cook, Jersey Finance
A Finance Manifesto
10/16/2014
JPMorgan, HSBC and the trillion-dollar game
There the world’s analysts and investors were, thinking they had hours to go before Jamie Dimon’s banking behemoth’s profits came out, when Bang! There they were, splashed all over the City’s trading screens.
10/15/2014
Francesco de Ferrari Revs Up
The Head of Credit Suisse’s private bank in Asia on wealth management in the region, and his outlook for Asia.
10/15/2014
UBS chief taps varied experience to lead bank
Many leading bankers are proud to say they started at the bottom of the field and worked their way to the top.
10/12/2014
Eurozone Souffle by Justin Urquhart Stewart
History does not repeat - well that is my view - but it does resonate.
10/12/2014
Market failure by Tim Price
There are two ways of learning how to ride a fractious horse
10/10/2014
Morgan Stanley uses client cash to chase private equity profits
People think of it as a risky business but it's not really
10/10/2014
No miracle solution by Guy Wagner
Through their actions, the central banks are making life hard for savers who are not prepared to take risks and who traditionally favour money-market investments rather than term deposits or savings accounts.
10/10/2014
HMRC – your Facebook friend? by Andrew Hubbard, Baker Tilly
Facebook – a great way to share all the latest news and photos with your friends and family. But changes to the way that HMRC communicates with the public could see you getting a ‘poke’ from the taxman sometime soon…
10/10/2014
Why Wealth Managers Should Focus On Steady, Cash-Generative Businesses
"In the low return environment that we foresee, there is a strong reason to refocus on 'Return of Capital and Return on Capital', which requires a cogent investment process as the foundation of the wealth management business," recommen