Managers of Wealth

Multinational taxation: the wisdom of the crowd or the madness of the mob? by George Bull and Kevin Phillips

Companies such as Starbucks, Facebook, Google and Apple appear to be paying relatively little UK corporation tax.

5.5m people could become financial advice ‘orphans’ following Retail Distribution Review - RESEARCH

Research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm, indicates that up to 5.5m people could fall into the financial advice gap after the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Community Banking Execs See Regulatory Requirements Stifling Growth, Driving M&A Activity - KPMG Survey

Wealth Management Expected to be Revenue Driver, Cyberattacks Not Seen as a Major Concern, Capital Needed to Meet Requirements, Troubled Mortgages Remain a Problem

HSBC Will Be UK-based For Decades Yet

Should we rejoice? No

Female bosses get bonuses worth half as much as men, CMI warns

Female executives receive bonuses worth less than half those of their male counterparts, a new study has revealed, shedding light on the gender pay gap.

Ten Trends Transforming the European Financial Services Industry - RESEARCH

The eurozone remains under intense economic pressure; however, European countries outside of the developed EU economies are growing and are looking for ways to attract international capital.

“Thorn in My Side” - View from Psigma

As we wrote in October’s newsletter, financial markets appear to be in a state of “limbo”, following a power-packed summer that improved a first half of meagre returns into something much healthier.

Fame and Fortune: Stay calm and Europe will pay off

Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe, the French wealth manager to the super-rich, is thinking long term with tips on equities — and wine

A man whom the world's wealthy trust

An asset manager and trainer with London-based Eureka Financial, has been a trusted attendant to some of the most private conversations of wealthy family businesses around the world.

Robert Tchenguiz tries to rebuild a frozen empire

Robert Tchenguiz is struggling to move on

Meet the Most Indebted Man in the World

Former Société Générale rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel owes the bank $6.3 billion. Here's what his case tells us about financial reform.

“Politics paramount” - Coutts

The markets enter a testing week with major political uncertainty in two of the largest economies of the world.

Glimmers of hope on the economy - Arbuthnot Banking Group

In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, takes stock of the latest economic indicators and previews this week’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.

Responsible Investing Solutions Launched by Northern Trust

Northern Trust has a broad commitment to responsible investing

Chinese capital outflows: signs of stress, or a structural shift? - Schroders

Since announcing that the second quarter delivered only the third capital account deficit since the end of 2008, investors’ minds have started to turn to the impact of capital outflows from China.

Britain's banks should be our national wealth fund

There are not many leaders of a large public company who would openly say their largest investor might want to put their money somewhere else, but among them are the chief executives of Britain's taxpayer backed banks, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal

HMRC in the clouds by Gary Heynes

HMRC has announced it will be moving data currently held on servers within local tax offices to ‘cloud’ storage.

State Street Corporation: Investor Confidence Index Falls by 6.7 points in October

The State Street Investor Confidence Index was developed by Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot and Paul O'Connell of State Street Associates.

Banks threatened to quit UK

Taylor said that keeping both parts of a bank within a group structure would also enable the investment banking arm to rescue the high street division if it got into financial difficulties.

"The current climate remains an attractive one for Gold investors" - Berry Asset Management

Today many investors hold more faith in the dollar or the Swiss franc….. or if they are diehards perhaps, sterling or the Euro…. than they do gold.

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