04/11/2016

Fortress Three Top Executives Split $44 Million Bonuses In 2015

The firm, which oversaw $70.5 billion in fee-paying investor capital at the end of last year, disbanded its flagship macro hedge fund after almost two years of losses and a spate of redemptions since 2007 shrank its assets by more than three-quarters to $

04/11/2016

Wealth firm set to complete triple acquisition

Courtiers has bought out Oxford adviser JRH Asset Management, the first of three impending acquisitions the company said it is hoping to complete soon. The purchase of high net worth-focused adviser, for a price tag above £1 million, will bring &a

04/08/2016

Why are old banks hooking up with younger models?

Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first services - payments, loans, money transfers, digital currencies - and threatening to steal customers, particularly younger ones.

04/08/2016

JTC has formed a partnership with INDOS Financial

The partnership means that JTC’s range of private equity, real estate, hedge, infrastructure and other alternative fund clients will now have access to a specialist depositary, which can help managers meet the requirements of the EU Alternative Inve

04/08/2016

Swiss MP defends Panama Papers rich

Switzerland's Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has gone into bat for rich people who set up offshore companies, saying they already pay a lot of tax.

04/08/2016

Brooks Macdonald to rebrand from next week

“We currently have six underlying businesses and we will still have six underlying businesses, but each of them is currently branded separately,” he said.es are part of the same group.

04/07/2016

Barclays to sell Asia wealth division to OCBC

While an attractive business with strong growth potential, this Barclays WIM business, serving high net worth and ultra high net worth clients in Singapore and Hong Kong, was confirmed as no longer central to Barclays’ strategy and became part of Ba