02/28/2013
World's Wealthy Need Advisors to Provide Strategic Advice via Digital Tools
"The Futurewealth Report: Helpful Investment Technologies," which surveyed 3,477 respondents globally with an average $1.9 million in net worth, points to an opportunity for wealth managers to improve the client experience by using technology as
02/27/2013
There are a few places in Europe where once glaciers have melted and rivers are high
02/27/2013
If British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has his way, the South African banking sector arena would be making way for a new heavyweight contender.
02/27/2013
Austria continues to be an interesting growth market in private banking
02/25/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch - UK downgrade irony: good for FTSE 100
By adding to sterling’s woes, news of a UK credit-rating downgrade by Moody’s this past weekend may paradoxically benefit FTSE100.
02/25/2013
A cap on bankers’ bonuses would be lunacy
Beware of the European Parliament bearing gifts
02/25/2013
The voice of anti-austerity was loud and clear in Italian elections, delivering the worst-case scenario – a likely hung parliament with no leading party able to put together a workable coalition.
02/24/2013
The current crisis is distinct from previous crisis episodes because this crisis affects a large set of European countries that are highly integrated via trade and financial channels, and, because the magnitude of economic policies implemented is unpreced
02/24/2013
For nearly 40 years, governments in the majority of industrialised countries have conducted fiscal policies based on Keynesian principles: in times of economic contraction, they have increased public spending.
02/24/2013
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge ?
02/24/2013
It was interesting to hear the French moaning about their trains for a change.
02/24/2013
On the reasons he is invested in salmon, and the reasons the price of salmon will remain elevated
02/24/2013
Positive Signs Resonate Worldwide in Early 2013 -RESEARCH
U.S. housing sales, retail sales and job numbers strengthening - Germany, Italy and Spain showing signs of economic improvement - Growth in China expected to exceed 7.5 per cent in 2013 - Canadian investors seeing better returns on equities
02/24/2013
Currencies down = stock markets up
02/24/2013
£1 million in 1982 would provide the same spending power as £3 million today.
02/24/2013
FTI Consulting found that 77% of respondents are optimistic
02/21/2013
And finally…. by George Bull
02/21/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch - Sterling to take a further pounding
Sterling’s sharp fall has outstripped our bearish forecast for the year. And with UK policymakers indicating support for further weakness, we now see the pound falling further, to $1.48 by year end.
02/21/2013
In our opinion the major risk right now for peripheral countries is political. We believe that the current increase in peripheral spreads is temporary and that the trend towards a normalization of financial conditions and structural reforms in the periph
02/21/2013
He suggested that the rate was often "completely made up"