10/06/2013
Private Banking in the Middle East: a Review
The Middle East’s private wealth boom is part of a wider trend of growth in emerging markets and resource led economies
Comment & Analysis
10/06/2013
More Housing Hokum by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The latest „Help to Buy‟ plans, much vaunted by our esteemed politicians at their party conference last week, seems to have been not quite as popular with some of the banks as had originally been implied.
10/06/2013
On the up – the number of women in British boardrooms rises to 19%
The proportion of female directors of FTSE 100 companies has risen to 19 per cent, a study has revealed, up from 12.5 per cent two years ago.
10/06/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - "No default - we hope"
While the US political impasse may provide further disruption to the market, we very much doubt that the government will default on its debt obligations. It has left all non-essential government activities closed.
10/06/2013
Asset management sector volumes flat - CBI/PwC
Headcount is climbing as firms gear up for renewed growth.
10/06/2013
Alan Hughes: What Advisers Can Learn from the Axa fine
Axa Wealth’s £1.8m fine shows firm failed to take its own findings seriously and was more concerned with hitting sales targets.
10/06/2013
Eugene Fama reiterates opposition to active management, high fees
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of losers
10/06/2013
Is Mark Carney's forward guidance plan a step backwards?
Bank of England governor's move to persuade markets that interest rates will not immediately rise has provoked scepticism
10/05/2013
RMG Wealth Mangement's Stewart Richardson warns of factors that could derail end-of-year rally
US politicians have allowed large swathes of the Federal Government to shut down because they cannot agree a budget for the fiscal year that started on 1st October.
10/03/2013
Cerulli Projects Total U.S. Institutional Market Assets to Reach $19 Trillion by 2018
As of year-end 2012, the institutional market held $14.5 trillion in assets under management
10/03/2013
Banks learn the hard way in wealth arena
WEALTH management was seen as one of the great Australian growth industries of the 21st century.
10/03/2013
Healthy Fund Flows Spur Frontier Market Fund Launches
Money tends to flow to markets with better infrastructure and liquidity
10/03/2013
HMRC’s Swiss Tax initiative - running out of steam? by Mike Down
Last week HMRC wrote to everyone affected by the UK/Switzerland tax agreement asking them to come clean as to whether they owe tax or not.
10/03/2013
HNW Investors Have Recovered From The Recession - BMO Private Bank
Sixty-one percent of high-net-worth Americans said they are better off today than they were before the 2008 recession
10/03/2013
UK Disclosure facilities - Withers
Global Warning – the heat is on
10/03/2013
Eurozone cleared to take on demons - Coutts & Co
Coutts Wealth Watch - 4 October 2013
10/02/2013
Sustainable Earnings Replaces Sustainable Yield - Standard Life
Our portfolios are slowly becoming more cyclical
10/02/2013
Hobart Financial Group, Wealth Management Firm, Warns That Many Financial Advisors Are “Flying Blind”
There is a lack of knowledge among advisors, which leads to poor investment and fund management decisions
10/02/2013
Majority of Canada's Affluent Say They Are Better Off Today Than Before the 2008 Downturn - BMO Harris Private Bank
The study found that the majority of affluent Canadians (54 per cent) feel they are better off now than they were before September 2008
10/01/2013
New draconian controls on bank bosses will scare off the talent
Who would want to be a bank boss?