Managers of Wealth

The World's Top 20 Green Banks in 2012

The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.

Big pay ‘made Barclays bosses feel above rules’

In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news

VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly

Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’

West End Front - Thomas Becket, Psigma

As a child of the bear market, I have been used to changing trends, but the stark underperformance of Emerging Market (EM) equities versus developed world equities is not something we have become used to in rising markets.

HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans

The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management

Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life

Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.

Millionaires Got $80 Million in Jobless Aid in Recession

“So many people are taking advantage of government support that they probably feel like, why shouldn’t they take advantage of it, too?” said George Walper Jr., president of the Spectrem Group

A New BRICS Development Bank: Will It Work for Women?

A new BRICS bank indeed raises important questions

Younger Investors Are a Different Breed - RESEARCH

Many Wealthy Millennials Need Help Preparing for Family Money

Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank

Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.

Most Knowledgeable Affluent Investors More Likely to Pursue Overseas Job Opportunities

Taking risk and financial knowledge are two hallmarks of the Affluent investor

A shot across the bow at fund directors

The SEC last stepped up its monitoring of mutual fund directors after the late-trading and market-timing scandals

Shakespeare was a tax evader & black marketeer?

A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food

How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?

If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.

Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge

After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Driving with the handbrake on

Do you know what it's like to drive a car with the handbrake on?

Coutts warns clients of threat from debt markets amid bubble fears

Coutts, the high-end private bank, has warned its clients against exposing their fortunes to a potential collapse of the high-yield debt market amid growing concerns of a new global credit bubble.

Half of U.S. women fear becoming "bag ladies"

Women control a larger share of personal wealth in the U.S. than ever

Off target

POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees

DBS a more efficient outfit now, says CEO

"We are now centrally managed, there is now a standardised policy framework, we are more efficient and effective."

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