Managers of Wealth

Corporate New Year Resolution: Tell the Truth About Why Execs Leave

This follows high-profile departures in December at Coca-Cola and Pfizer, both involving senior executives previously positioned as rising stars.

97% of Financial Firms Don’t Think Enough Has Been Done to Prevent Future Crash

Combined with a survey of 300 senior executives in banks, asset management firms and hedge funds globally

Abigail with attitude: UBS' Ermotti is unmistakably Swiss; JPMorgan is trying too hard

The new focus was to be wealth management and corporate finance, which would hopefully flourish untainted by scandals in the fixed-income division.

Is this the last happy new year for bankers’ bonuses?

The residents of the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are preparing themselves for what, for many, could be the first sizeable bonuses since the start of the crisis.

Coutts' commentary - Wealth Watch on Gold - Will 2014 be a better year for gold?

Still plenty of reasons to hold gold

35% of financial services execs support criminal charges for reckless bankers

More than a third (35%) of global financial services professionals working in banks, asset management and hedge funds believe that executives should be held criminally liable for the actions of staff.

Capital Flows: Powered Down

Cross-border funding is far below its 2007 peak, but with uncertain effects

Being Superwoman doesn’t make you Supermum, admits Horlick

Back in the Nineties, Nicola Horlick was held aloft as the very model of career motherdom.

2013 Reminds Us Of Something Warren Buffett Said During The Darkest Days Of The Financial Crisis

2013 wasn't a good year. It was an incredible year

Why gold bugs should brace for an 'awful' 2014

Gold had a tumultuous run in 2013 but don't expect any respite in the new year

Coutts Insights - Stocking up on income

The attraction of income-paying shares has not been lost on investors, who have had to endure a prolonged period of ultra-low interest rates.

Investment Outlook: A good year by Teis Knuthsen, CIO, Saxo Private Bank

The past year has been an extraordinary investment year with exceptional returns on developed markets equities.

Wealth Management Strategy for 2014 and Beyond

Banks have a lot of departments that could be involved in a wealth management offering

A world economy on the brink of fracture by Jeremy Warner

What will happen in 2014? The Chinese economy will slow; the price of oil will sink; Germany will slide into recession; the EU will remain intact and the internet will begin to Balkanise

What ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Is Missing: The Women

Ask any woman who worked around finance in the movie's era what she thought about sexual harassment, and her answer will likely be a shrug: “We called it going to work.”

Do you really know bitcoin ? Here are 11 myths

Nick Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx, was one of the early Wall Street analysts to take a serious look at bitcoin back in February. To wrap up 2013, he examined what he sees as 11 myths surrounding the subject.

Money Trumps Love When it Comes to 2014 New Year's Resolutions: BMO Wealth Institute

Eighty per cent of Canadians will be making at least one resolution for 2014 - More than one-third of all resolutions made will be related to personal finances - Sixty per cent who have made financial resolutions in the past have kept them

Coutts Insights - Think small in search for next tech stars

The thrill hasn’t gone from the technology sector, as Twitter’s recent stockmarket float proves. But technology investment faces an inherent challenge: its limited shelf life.

Citi senses opportunity in rise of next generation

Every industry goes through a tough cycle and now it is our turn

Pioneering Banque Syz welcomes winds of change

People in Geneva were friendly and polite to our faces

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