Managers of Wealth

Are Good Managers Born or Made?

People who are masters of their profession — for example lawyers, architects or engineers — may not be the most interested in or best equipped to do well managing people, Vanderslice points out.

PwC Report: While Fintech Disrupts Banks, the Blockchain Disrupts Fintech

The PwC report is based on a survey of 544 CEOs, heads of innovation, chief information officers, and top management personnel in financial services companies from 46 countries around the world.

Robo-Advisors Are Disruptive, but Hybrid is Much More: It’s Transformational

In the recent report Robo-Advisors: The Hype, the Reality and the Future, published on February 29th by Gartner, Chuck Thomas notes the difference between digitization and digitalization applied to Wealth Management services. Our vision on what the future

Legg Mason survey: UK investors hold more than third of assets in cash

Over 5,000 investors surveyed

61% of UAE High Net Worth Individuals Set to Invest in Global Real Estate in 2016, says Cluttons

New York and Dubai identified as preferred investment destinations

Swiss FinTech Report 2016

"Swiss FinTech Report 2016 - The role of Switzerland as a FinTech hub" has been released by Swiss FinTech, the Swiss Finance + Technology Association together with EY.

PwC: Banking Execs Fear Risk Due to Fintech Innovation & Disruption

Some statistics include: Incumbents believe 23% of their business could be at risk

Deregulation slowdown poses biggest challenge to UBS in China

UBS wants more of the QDII quota made available in the market so that the Swiss bank can offer products from global markets, she added.

How Trusts And Estates Lawyers Can Double Their Revenues In A Year

Trusts and estates practices are – or certainly can be – exceedingly lucrative for the lawyer and the law firm. For example, with the boom in private wealth creation, there is a growing need to address intergenerational wealth transfers. At th

Supply glut stalling out luxury resi market

Rather, real estate consultant Nancy Packes told the Times, rich buyers may have simply already left the market, deciding the time to buy had passed.

Top 400 Billionaires’ Wealth Rises to $3.896 Trillion

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index takes measure of the world’s wealthiest people based on market and economic changes and Bloomberg News reporting. Each net worth figure is updated

Wealth managers on the fence despite commodities shift

BofA Merrill Lynch’s Fund Manager Survey recorded the biggest monthly jump in allocation to commodities on record in February, so who’s buying and who’s staying clear?

Emerging market debt - a class of its own - Van Eck

To maximise the opportunities in emerging market debt, Van Eck takes an unconstrained approach to EM hard currency, EM local currency, and EM corporate debt.

Emirates Investment Bank publishes third annual GCC Wealth Insight Report

Face-to-face interviews were held in each country between September and November 2015 among the national population as well as expatriates.

Credit Suisse hopes rich mix drives rally

International wealth management, which covers private banking and asset management outside Switzerland but excluding Asia, is one of three divisions expected to power the turnround — the other two being the Swiss “universal” bank, and th

Manchester United seeks to build brand in Asia with Gulf Oil tie-up

The club expects revenue for the year to hit 500 million pounds which would be a first for a British club.

Key Concerns Of Trust And Estate Lawyers

Many trusts and estates lawyers see their world in transition with the final evolutionary form uncertain.

London house prices: Iranian billionaire investors poised to splurge £6bn on properties around the world - and London is one of the top destinations

The top five most popular locations within London are expected to be the usual suspects: Knightsbridge, Mayfair, South Kensington, Hampstead and St John’s Wood.

Single-Family Offices Increasingly Find Private Equity Investments Appealing

The single-family offices in the study are heavily committed to the asset class, with 92 percent of respondents investing upwards of 10 percent of their overall portfolio in private equity.

A million dollars equals a 58 sq m home in Beijing

As domestic market growth slows down and more investment approaches are made available, it can be expected that properties in key western markets will continue being the target for Asian individual investors.

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