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Timeline: How ABN Amro got bought, bailed out and sold again

Highlights of the bank’s tumultuous history

Bonham-Carter denies Jupiter Asset Management sale rumours

Instead the firm is looking to expand into the European market and focus its sales efforts in the region, says Bonham-Carter.

ABN Amro IPO raises £2.3bn as Dutch government cuts stake

The first tranche of the share sale has gone better than expected for the state-owned lender

Wealth manager profile: Smith & Williamson’s Chris Kenny

The problem is they can’t wait for me to retire to inherit a book of clients.

Now’s the time to strike on US HY, says Schroders outperformer

Nevertheless, Isaac believes pockets of European fixed income are displaying good value

OPINION: Why wealth managers must act now to save their future

Break a mirror, and you’ll get seven years of bad luck. Break the banking system, and it’ll take that long just for regulators to work out who’s to blame.

GAM launches new brand identity

GAM adopts a new brand design, expressing the common purpose of all of its teams around the world: advancing the potential of capital.

Largest bank in Denmark establishes new Wealth Management unit

The decision to establish the new unit is a result of our ongoing business review.

Generali sets new business closure date for non-core markets

Generali said it would concentrate on the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UAE (in partnership with Generali Group).

Survival of the richest: how London's super-rich are trying to buy immortality

When you have everything you ever dreamed of, what’s left to want? Time to enjoy it, of course.

What James Bond teaches us about Risk by Tom Catchpole, Vestra Wealth

Fast wind to 2015, and although the threat has changed, the spectre of…..well, Spectre remains.

Credit Suisse's Thiam to face feisty retail investors

There are no signs that shareholders will reject the cash call.

Nordic banks are relying more on wealth management to stay profitable

The industry’s response has so far focused largely on cost cuts.

Top 100 Financial Advisers revealed

At first glance, little has changed at the top of the list, with St James’s Place and Hargreaves Lansdown occupying first and second positions respectively.

Wealth-X and Camper & Nicholsons Form Knowledge Partnership for Global Insight on Wealth and Superyachts

Wealth-X and Camper & Nicholsons today announced a knowledge partnership that will result in a first-of-its-kind report on the world’s ultra wealthy and the luxury yachting sector.

Start-up numbers rise 7% across Scotland

The number of new businesses starting up in Scotland grew by 7 per cent in the year to March, according to new research.

UBS Agrees to Buy Italy Private Wealth division

The deal is set to close in the first four months of 2016 pending regulatory approval, UBS said in a statement on Tuesday.

IFAs should smile: you’ve never had it so good

When the regulator announced the retail distribution review in 2006 there was much tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth.

Julius Baer Agrees to Raise Stake in Kairos to 80%

Kairos assets under management almost doubled since 2013

Stop focusing on process and proposition

The introduction of the RDR by the FSA perhaps forced financial advice firms to profoundly review how they communicated with clients.

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