10/28/2015
According to a report released today, the fees for financial advice are set to undergo a process of evolution as HNW clients opt to move away from charges calculated based on their asset levels, towards fixed fee structures.
10/28/2015
The problem is that there are probably only about 500 extraordinary managers in the world, but there are 11,000 hedge funds.
10/27/2015
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, includes discussion of the latest Z/Yen survey of global financial centres.
10/27/2015
European markets received a boost following an ECB meeting in Malta, suggesting the body is open to “a whole menu of monetary policy instruments,” according to comments from ECB President Mario Draghi.
10/27/2015
The UK has become an easier place to do business in past year, says World Bank, after reforms to red tape and corporate tax
10/26/2015
The consumer group said 33 of the sites offered a ‘key facts document’ for download, but 25 of those did not supplement this with a ‘suitably detailed’ fees page, or had no fees pages at all.
10/23/2015
HSBC would distance itself from worries like a British exit from the European Union, an EU cap on bank bonuses, and UK legislation to ring-fence retail banks and potentially jail negligent bank bosses.
10/23/2015
With a rather small population of about 33,000 people on a rather small territory of 2.5 square miles, Gibraltar has managed to built a well diversified financial industry.
10/22/2015
Speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Sibos conference, Singapore, 14 October 2015.