09/27/2012
Vince Cable’s reference to tax havens as ‘sunny places for shady people’ at the Lib Dem’s conference, hits upon one of the hotly debated tax issues of the year. Monaco has been in the press a great deal over the past week – m
09/26/2012
"Many of these people escaped to London or other countries in order to preserve their wealth. But it is going to get more and more difficult."
09/26/2012
IMF head Christine Lagarde says women must accept that there will be "failures" if they attempt to juggle a career and raise children at the same time.
09/26/2012
Complaints rose by 59% compared with the second half of 2011 to 3.58 million, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said.
09/25/2012
All references must be sourced to CNBC.
09/25/2012
European banks have admitted they have a cost problem, and must now show skeptical investors they are doing all they can to lead a profitable life without the crutch of bloated jobs, bonuses and business lines.
09/24/2012
Regulators should embrace historic principles of banking to prevent new financial failures, according to a report from the Adam Smith Institute.
09/24/2012
They’re tired of losing money so now is the time for specialised money management, argues the Asia chief of ABN Amro’s private bank, Hugues Delcourt.
09/24/2012
Beware the fashion fads.
09/24/2012
Barclays has revealed its monthly flagship Wealth and Investment Management research dedicated to providing investment advice and recommendation to investors across the region.
09/24/2012
You sense that investors are watching but are not doing.
09/23/2012
“Don’t you think,” asked Kitto in the August edition of Britain’s Prospect, “with all the growth and infrastructure, the material wealth, let alone saving the world like some kind of financial whiz James Bond, that China woul
09/23/2012
There is a certain group in society that would like this "hang-your-heads-in-shame" chapter to continue forever.
09/20/2012
In his first live TV interview the Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King tells Jon Snow several banks have been involved in the Libor rates scandal and that he did not fire Barclays boss Bob Diamond. .
09/20/2012
High-net-worth individuals are seeking to buy gold to protect their wealth
09/20/2012
Britain could stop firms using tax havens if it got rid of more "archaic rules" for business, the treasurer of the Conservative Party has said.
09/19/2012
So it will come as no surprise that the Gnomes of Zurich were serious when they recently sent a questionnaire to 22 of the richest crooks and liars in Russia, asking them for their assessment of the prospects for Russian wealth management — and prin
09/19/2012
At the same time, the numbers of UK buyers in the Paris region has remained stable at around 2% of all transactions, according to data from BNP Paribas, whilst for France overall, the percentage of UK buyers dropped slightly from 11% to 9%.
09/19/2012
The reaction of Treasury prices to the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) latest round of quantitative easing (QE3) shows that investors are concerned that its open-ended programme will trigger higher inflation. This has also been reflected in the rising pr
09/19/2012
The hedge fund industry is going through tough times. The average hedge fund manager has been unable to beat the market for the last 20 months.