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Wealth Sentiment Monitor - RESEARCH

Skandia International has published a new study into consumer confidence and sentiment towards wealth which was carried out across the territories relevant to Skandia International / Old Mutual Wealth.

The price of happiness is US$162,000

The research, conducted with 5000 people across 13 territories

Investors Not Acting in Their Own Best Interest

Study calls for a new definition of performance to deliver sustainable returns; one size no longer fits all

No place to hide by Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly

As the net closes in even further on offshore tax evasion, surely the time is right now for HMRC to introduce a general amnesty?

What the banker should have said to the bishop

God met Mammon at the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, set up in the wake of the Libor-rigging scandal, and the result was much heat but very little light.

UK Companies Struggle With “The Finance Growth Challenge” - Salary Survey

Highly skilled accounting and finance professionals remain in high demand despite more stagnant general job growth.

EM Bonds and Currencies benefit from improved risk environment - Barings

Emerging market bonds and currencies are benefitting from a more benign risk environment, according to Baring Asset Management.

Could the Legacy of the Olympics Inspire the Private Wealth Industry too?

Marc Farror TEP, Director, Vistra (Jersey) Limited looks at strategies for successfully targeting the high net worth female client

A feral pit of total war by Tim Price

“I was reminded of the advertising slogan for the launch of a new credit card, Access: Access takes the waiting out of wanting.

Go Xi, Go'Bama by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Bunting or black suits? Take your choice.

Stockbrokers facing ‘wave of takeovers’

TOUGHER European regulatory rules are likely to prompt a new wave of takeovers

Coutts interview: Rory Tapner

Last year was tough year to be rich

Hong Kong set to overtake shrinking City

Hong Kong’s finance workers will outnumber those employed in London within three years as City job cuts shrink London to third place in the global rankings of financial centres.

Schroders UK institutional survey reveals economic concerns for 2013

In the current environment attendees were asked if they ‘would consider looking to global and more unconstrained fixed income investing in the future’. Almost 60% of respondents said that they would consider this

Continuity with a hope of more certainty - Coutts

We are increasingly likely to suggest that investors use the weakness in the markets as a buying opportunity for risk assets.

You Can Take The Dragon Out Of The Business - But You Can't Take Business Out Of The Dragon - RESEARCH

59% say it is hard to walk away entirely from being involved with business

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

Is "pay for performance" losing its allure? What do you think?

The BNP Paribas group in Luxembourg promotes diversity and equal opportunity

The plan recently received Actions Positives accreditation

Multinational taxation: the wisdom of the crowd or the madness of the mob? by George Bull and Kevin Phillips

Companies such as Starbucks, Facebook, Google and Apple appear to be paying relatively little UK corporation tax.

5.5m people could become financial advice ‘orphans’ following Retail Distribution Review - RESEARCH

Research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm, indicates that up to 5.5m people could fall into the financial advice gap after the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

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