Managers of Wealth

Investor Insights from Coutts: Gold sets the pace for 2014

Gold is the best-performing asset class in the year to date, with prices going up by close to 10%.

Growth, Uncertainty and FX

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy

The businesses in Ulster have one very major issue to manage over and above all the other economic and social issues that fellow companies have to address elsewhere across the UK - that is of course its southern neighbour, which sits across a very porous

Post-Casey, what expats must do

More and more Singaporeans are protesting against the influx of foreigners. What exactly is contributing to this xenophobia?

Facing Retirement Wave, Firms Get Serious About Training New Advisors

Running up against the limits of a recruitment strategy based on swiping advisor talent from their competitors, leading wealth management firms are trying a new ploy: Growing their own.

Hot-shot hedge fund banker quits London job and sets up company in Boston to find drugs to save his son, 3, after he's diagnosed with fatal muscular disease

A heroic father has quit his job as a high-flying hedge fund banker in London and dedicated himself to finding a cure for his sick son, who is fighting a life-threatening muscular disease.

Suicides in the banking world, 7 deaths within weeks

The financial world has been rocked over the past few weeks as seven bankers have died, several of those committing suicide.

Coutts Manchester hosts Graphene 'The Miracle Material' dinner with Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

“We believe graphene is a material to watch. Through the Coutts Futurescope research papers, we’ve been informing clients about the potential of graphene. The research looked at the world with a 10 year horizon and identified aspects where rad

Two Minutes, One Thought!

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours” - Milton Berle

Sallie Krawcheck Was Right About Breakaways

Top producers remain on Wall Street for three reasons, although there are indications this could change over the next few years.

Temenos CEO Sees Swiss Bank Mergers Boosting Software Sales

Swiss private banking mergers are creating sales opportunities for Temenos Group AG.

China's rich beat a path to foreign shores

Legal uncertainty and appalling pollution at home are prompting wealthy Chinese to move themselves and their money abroad.

A mansion tax would be equivalent to feasting on our economy’s seed corn

People do not much like paying taxes, yet there is rising demand for welfare and state services, and politicians fear taking the tough decisions needed to reallocate spending.

March 19th – ‘A Budget for Votes’? by George Bull

With Budget Day exactly a month away, what’s likely to be in the Chancellor’s Red Box? Will the Chancellor make a single, dramatic gesture to win middle-income voter support?

The Mathematics of Foreign Exchange

"When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” Lord Kelvin

Yellen, Changing and Hiding? - Neil Staines, ECU

On Tuesday we suggested that the core focus of the market was likely to be the testimony of Janet Yellen and the UK Quarterly Inflation Report (QIR), presented by Mark Carney.

Paltry pension propaganda

It seems everything about pensions is nearly always negative.

Advertising industry leaders debate the value of awards

The word that underpinned most of the comments and discussions during the debate was 'integrity' - something that every client, agency and judge must operate with. [Only then can we] experience the true value of winning awards."

Deloitte: Are businesses and Governments meeting Generation Y's demands and expectations?

Big demands and high expectations summarize the results of this year's Deloitte third annual Millennial Survey just released.

2014 continues to be another positive year for risk assets: Barclays

Developed Equities Market positions move from neutral to modest overweight

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