10/08/2014
The director general of the Association of Investment Companies has bemoaned the fact that a number of financial advisers are not offering investment companies to their clients, despite seeing the benefits and using them in their own portfolios.
10/08/2014
A new forecast by Spear's in conjunction with WealthInsight shows that the total wealth of the UK's richest is expected to grow by 12.5 per cent from 2014 to 2016 - ahead of other major European economies Germany, Spain, France and Italy.
10/08/2014
The results placed Europe on par with the U.S., with 21.2 percent, and compares with a non-Europe average of 11.6 percent. While women gained board seats in the biennial survey, efforts on executive board appointments are “stagnant,” Egon Zehn
10/07/2014
Credit has not been in a good spot lately and the impact can be felt on funds focusing on bottom-up opportunities.
10/06/2014
Nearly a quarter of SME (small and medium-size enterprise) bosses in East Anglia say they remain in constant contact with their office while on holiday.
10/06/2014
The UK’s financial services firms saw strong growth in business volumes in the three months to September, with profits rebounding and hiring on the up. That’s according to the 100th CBI/PwC survey of the sector.
10/06/2014
Wealth in Europe at Record High
European wealth is currently around the record level of €56tn, expected to reach a massive €80tn by 2019.
10/05/2014
So here we are, still faced with a huge deficit, and although it has come down over the past few years, it is now showing signs of flat-lining and even rising slightly.
10/03/2014
September’s estimates for the ARC Private Client Indices (PCI) and the ARC Charity Indices (ACI) are now available for download
10/03/2014
Tracking runaway growth in the global ETF market
10/03/2014
A new study conducted by the Julius Baer Group, a Swiss private bank, has found that the last seven years of devastating economic downfall have seen Greek households lose a net total of 170 billion euros.
10/03/2014
The BBA's Wealth of Opportunities report, which is supported by the Wealth Management Association (WMA), reveals that investors rate the UK higher than other financial centres for these services, and that the sector last year paid taxes of £1.
10/02/2014
The UK’s fund management seThe UK’s fund management sector was worth £6.2trn at the end of 2013, data from TheCityUK has found.
10/02/2014
Wealth in Europe at all-time high of 56 trillion euros
Private wealth across Europe reached an all-time high of 56 trillion euros last year and is set to rise by 40 percent to almost 80 trillion by 2019
10/02/2014
The objective here, of course, is not to discuss whether sanctions are the best available method to solve the East-West crisis, but to shed light on the indirect way the financial sector is impacted.
10/02/2014
PwC's report was based on a survey of over 2000 people across the UK
10/02/2014
A European private banker explains how to cater for and act as a go-between with hedge fund and UCITS fund managers and investors.
10/01/2014
This is prompting some professional investors to look in more detail at how specific risk factors perform
10/01/2014
Some of the most common forms of card scams include card skimming through devices
09/30/2014
It points out that both have seven ultra-prime districts which together represent 14 of the most valuable addresses in the world