02/21/2012

Erste Bank retains crown as leading private bank

The awards are even more relevant as they are based on a survey conducted within the industry, and therefore it was not a jury, but rather industry experts themselves who assessed and ranked the individual banks.

02/21/2012

Finnish investment bank focuses on wealth

"Evli Bank as a group has been recently refocusing more toward wealth management, and this is also bringing changes to the Baltic opera-tion," says Jolanta Latviene, the new CEO and board chairman of Evli Securities, Evli's Tallinn-based Ba

02/20/2012

IFA acquisition brings Web £20m in funds

The acquisition of another Surrey-based firm adds two more IFAs to Web’s personnel, corporate specialist Stuart Smillie and private client expert James Child.

02/20/2012

Norway’s wealth fund wants less of Europe, more of Asia

The fund, which holds nearly 2 per cent of all European shares, also has to adjust to lower real-return expectations and the government must cut back on how much of the oil money it spends if it wants to preserve the fund, Norges Bank, which manages the f

02/20/2012

Italian tax men blitz the chic in ski resort raids

Italian tax agents donned skis, gloves and goggles to launch an unusual blitz in the chic ski resort of Courmayeur, two months after a similar raid on another playground of the rich, Cortina d'Ampezzo.

02/20/2012

Iveagh launches into Northern Ireland

The fund range offers investors access to the investment team who manage the private investment portfolios of key members of the Guinness family office, including Lord Iveagh.

02/17/2012

SocGen CEO ‘Happy’ With Start to 2012

Societe Generale Chief Executive Frederic Oudea predicted a better 2012 after the French bank reported a worse-than-expected 88.6 percent fall in quarterly profit in the last three months of 2011 on Thursday.

02/16/2012

European family offices invest in India

The deal came less than two years after Verlinvest’s first investment in India. In November 2010, the firm acquired a 15% stake in winemaker Sula Wine.