Managers of Wealth

New London finance jobs rise for first time since early 2012

After a period of pay stagnation, this year’s survey found that average basic salaries in the City rose 5.6% during 2013. This is double the rate of inflation.

Foreigners don’t pay tax? Really? by David Heaton

Much has been made in the press about the tax status of these migrants – so what’s the truth?

UHNW Industry Leaders Give Their 2014 Predictions

Here executives representing a cross-section of the UHNW industry including luxury, not-for-profit and wealth management, gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2014 holds in store.

Rate expectations by Tim Price

Warren Buffett, ‘How inflation swindles the equity investor’, May 1977.

Here's The Presentation Bob Doll Just Gave That Has All The Charts And Stats Behind His 2014 Predictions

One of the more anticipated annual lists of market predictions comes from Nuveen Asset Management's Bob Doll, the veteran investment strategist who previously held top posts at BlackRock and Merrill Lynch.

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.”

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