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Investec wealth assets up £8bn after Evolution acquisition‎

Profits dip in wealth and investment division as restructuring and unit sales costs take toll.

Curmi & Partners and Morgan Stanley to explore Wealth Management Opportunities

Curmi & Partners will this evening be hosting an event with Morgan Stanley to explore wealth management opportunities in Malta.

Private Client Financial Industry Award Reception Doubles Attendance

As part of Private Client Practitioner’s Top 25 series, the Top 25 Law Firms aims to identify, recognise, introduce and promote the Top 25 Private Client Law Firms, in the UK and UK offshore

Banking lobby warns of risks from capping bonuses

Bankers often receive a bonus of several times their basic annual salary but the European Parliament's economic affairs committee agreed on Monday that bonuses should not be higher than a banker's fixed pay.

Deloittes gear up for the Olympics

A team of employees from Deloitte are gearing up for the Olympics by taking to their saddles and tackling the official Olympic cycle route before the London 2012 athletes.

UBS needs more than just an EM figurehead

Rob Jolliffe's appointment to lead UBS's emerging markets efforts is an eye-catching move but will do little to mask some of the underlying weaknesses it has in that business.

Thames River brand to be scrapped on retail funds

Boutique’s owner F&C moves to bring the business under its banner.

Cameron’s Cuts Widening North-South U.K. Wealth Rift: Mortgages

Prime Minister David Cameron’s effort to slash Britain’s record budget deficit is widening a housing and wealth gap between the north of the country and the London area.

Wealth Check: 'How can we put a bit aside to enjoy luxuries?'

The couple live in Crowborough, East Sussex and like most people their biggest outgoing is their mortgage.

Coutts appoints Head of Products and Services in Asia

Most recently he was Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management Sales across Asia Pacific for HSBC.

Vestra's Scott: RDR unlikely to cause seismic shift

Speaking to Wealth Manager, the former UBS director said: ‘Part of me does not think the post-RDR world will be dramatically different

The tax cap is in danger of deterring innovative philanthropists

Meanwhile, a second arm of government – the Treasury – continues to defend its plans to end unlimited tax relief on donations that a growing coalition of philanthropists and charities argue will greatly reduce existing levels of giving. t

Northern Trust secures UK charity mandate

The Nesta Trust inherited the assets of the former National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 1 April 2012.

Millionaire financier under investigation over £5m 'fraud

Mr Ruffle, who grows wine at his Chinese castle, worked on the funds when the transactions took place.

Bankers fight new EU cap on bonuses

Brussels sources indicated that there is a high probability that the resolution will be passed, which would then need to be ratified by the European Commission before becoming law.

High earners say au revoir to France

The annual mass exodus from the French capital sees the city's inhabitants while away the August heat in the countryside.

RBS boss: Life is not about money (and this from a man who pockets £1.2m a year)

Mr Hester told pupils at a South London school that life ‘is about doing things that make you feel valuable, not necessarily measured by money’.

Family Office Exchange Expands Its Audience

New FOX Wealth Center website offers non-members access to proprietary FOX research for the first time

Butterfield seeks to cash in on London high-end property boom

The Bermuda bank’s UK operation is among a growing number of foreign private banks entering the London mortgage market by offering home loans in excess of £1 million.

Heartwood’s Lough: FSA has got RDR independence wrong

While the wealth management chief is largely supportive of the regulation’s underlying principles – not least upping professional standards and the removal of trail commission – he says the FSA has got it wrong when it comes to its crite

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