07/03/2012
For the second year in a row, Australia has ranked third behind France and the US as the most attractive destination for Chinese millionaires to holiday, according to a report by Shanghai-based private wealth researcher Rupert Hoogewerf.
07/03/2012
In a good year, the outgoing chief executive – who resigned Tuesday- could be paid up to £20million – about 1,000 times more than a teller in a high street Barclays.
07/03/2012
In fact, a well-researched article in New York magazine this week dove deep into the relationship between economic status and negative psychological characteristics such as a dearth of empathy, insensitivity to and unregard for other people, the tendency
07/03/2012
New insight from hundreds of HNWs across Germany, Russia, the UK and the USA has engagement with the major driving forces of change as a wealth of creating wealth.
07/03/2012
Coutts is the private banking arm of Royal Bank of Scotland and asks for a £1million deposit to open an account.
07/03/2012
Home prices have been rising in Switzerland, albeit not as quickly as in some European countries before the onset of the 2008 financial market crisis.
07/02/2012
The bank you spotted is the only remaining independent private bank in London.
07/02/2012
Today, the figure stands at about $16bn, according to a report released yesterday by the research firm Insight Discovery.
07/02/2012
Three Chinese banks topped the profit table, led by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for the second successive year, with pretax earnings of $US43.2 billion ($42 billion), according to The Banker.
07/02/2012
It was Thomas who established the firm’s reputation as private bankers to the aristocracy, and secured its royal connection.
07/02/2012
India’s problems from a record current account deficit to stalled policy reforms and economic growth running at its weakest pace in nine years, are well known and explain a slump in the rupee to a record low.
07/02/2012
India has gone from the country set to overtake China to the country that can do nothing right. Now, a few contrarians see signs India is turning a corner.
07/02/2012
Media Banker Bourkoff Launches Boutique
Based in New York, LionTree will have two units – an advisory business and an investing business
07/02/2012
Rochdale will combine with City National Asset Management to form a new registered investment advisor within the bank's wealth management group
07/01/2012
Private wealth in Asia excluding Japan grew more than five times faster than the 2 per cent global average in 2011, to $24tn, or a fifth of global wealth, according to Boston Consulting Group.
07/01/2012
The attraction, clearly, is more about potential than current opportunities. Like many Latin American countries, Brazil has a young and rising population with a fast-growing middle class.
07/01/2012
The fees totalled nearly $14 billion in the second quarter, down from more than $18 billion in the first quarter of 2012. Year to date, fees have totalled $32 billion, down 25 percent from the same period in 2011.
07/01/2012
Vontobel would consider acquiring an asset management firm overseeing as much as 25 billion Swiss francs ($26.4 billion), the Swiss newspaper quoted Schwarzer as saying.
07/01/2012
The White Paper, entitled, ‘The RDR Inquiry’ was independently commissioned and not designed to reflect the opinions of 2plan or its members.
07/01/2012
Heartwood has announced that it will be offering its model portfolios via the Novia platform.