12/05/2012
Wealth managers, as a group, have not grasped the extent to which the financial markets have fundamentally changed in the wake of the 2008-2009 downturn, according to a survey of 130 wealth managers.
12/05/2012
“There are Chinese people who have a lot of money and have soured on China’s real estate market,” said Patrick Chovanec, an associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing.
12/05/2012
The move applies to both trail and platform commissions received from funds’ annual management charges, and head of Saxo Wealth Karsten Henriksen said the change was ‘literally offering clients an extra return on their investments’.
12/04/2012
UBS Wealth Management Americas released its 2013 compensation plan to its financial advisers on Tuesday, announcing changes that will give them incentives to sell a wider range of products and bring in more revenue.
12/03/2012
In the past five years the number of people using a financial planner has dropped 20%, down from three million to 2.4 million, new research shows.
12/03/2012
The Credit Suisse reorganisation contrasts with hometown rival UBS, which is abandoning most fixed-income activities in favour of its flagship private bank as tough Swiss capital rules begin eating into investment banking profits.