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Senior managers regime tops list of CEO concerns

The Financial Conduct Authority is now extending it to the rest of the firms it regulates with a December 9, 2019 deadline.

Drop in fund investment advisory fees continues, says Fitz Partners

This change in advisory fee proportion would also have a significant impact on asset management firms

Renewables cost advantage not enough to deliver climate goals on time

This suggests that by the first half of the 2040s, renewable energy will supply 50% of all the energy we use.

Millennials most likely to fall prey to bank fraud, Lloyds reveals

Despite losing less money when scammed, more millennials have lost out financially, with the number of them being tricked rising almost fourfold.

Towards a new horizon in global client relationship management

Companies, investors and families are branching out, both into new geographies and new areas of activity.

Q&A: Stayinng Focused Through Brexit by Coutts

We talk this week’s big news about a parliament suspension with the Coutts investment team.

Let US Flow by Joe Moynihan

For the biggest alternative markets globally – Western Europe and North America – the repercussions are significant.

Private equity fund raising in Guernsey

Everything is tried and tested.

Both sides of the same coin? Examining the rise of sponsor-to-sponsor deals

Sponsor-to-sponsor deals involve PE firms on both sides of a transaction – buy side and sell side.

London fails to make Economist’s top 10 world’s safest cities list

The world’s most populous city earned a score of 92 out of 100 overall, with Singapore and Osaka following close behind.

£32 million boost for British businesses through referral scheme

More British businesses up and down the country are getting the financing they need to grow and expand, new figures show today.

Four Headings and a Funeral: Moments in Life to Prepare for the Future by Coutts

Always hope for the best but plan for the worst.

Investment market update - what’s happening beneath the scaremongering headlines?

Nobody knows the answer but we are anticipating that, at some point, markets may become too negative and provide investors with a good opportunity to add risk.

Negative interest rates are pushing European banks to tipping point, Danish watchdog warns

Jesper Berg says banks will either need to change their business model or shrink if they want to make money

‘We can’t expect success in the future because we’ve had it in the past’ – Coutts’ Peter Flavel on the bank’s revival

The bank’s clients today are as likely to be millennials and vloggers as industrialists or dukes with rolling acres.

Modern money: how family constitutions can pave the way for harmonious family businesses

Family constitutions vary from family to family, and helpfully, covers topics like entitlements, remuneration, share ownership and succession.

The skies are darkening over Europe by Tim Price

The economic sky is not cloudless,” remarked Angela Merkel last week.

SEI embraces intelligent automation

This is possible because it can help businesses to better streamline workflows, reduce redundancies, and overcome the growing complexity of data management.

Forget the generation gap – the gulf between rich and poor tells the real story of our times

It is wealth, particularly inherited wealth, that is the crucial determinant of life chances

Je ne regret rien by Gary Dugan

The fact that the US needs the rest of the world to buy its debt to fund its largesse of overspending and nonsense tax cuts is of course forgotten.

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