04/18/2012
Wealth management group increases discretionary funds to £3.5bn
As at 31 March, wealth management group Brooks MacDonald’s discretionary funds under management stood at £3.5bn, a significant increase over the first three months of the year haven risen from £3.2bn at the end of 2011.
04/18/2012
Banks have hired lawyers to look into suing the EU if Brussels imposes new restrictions on bonuses that they say would wreck their businesses, City A.M. has learned.
04/17/2012
Bob Diamond's tax bill is just the tip of the remuneration problems facing Barclays.
04/17/2012
These days, that Italian clan and other ultra-affluent families are moving assets to Singapore by setting up family offices in a city-state often touted as the Switzerland of Asia.
04/17/2012
HE made his name in Britain as a central defender for Tottenham Hotspur at the end of the 1990s.
04/17/2012
Grosvenor Group Ltd., the property company owned by the Duke of Westminster’s family trusts, said earnings before items rose to a record last year as it increased rental income and cut expenses.
04/16/2012
According to the Mei Moses World All Art index, investment grade art grew in value by 10.2 per cent in 2011, outperforming both the S&P 500 and the FTSE All Share total return indexes.
04/16/2012
The Dutch spent about 30 billion euros ($39 billion) on the 2008 bailout of Fortis’s Dutch units, including its stake in ABN Amro Holding NV.
04/16/2012
One in five Britons with more than £250,000 in savings are thinking of living abroad because they are tired of crime, poor weather and the high cost of living, the wealth management arm of Lloyds Banking Group said on Monday.
04/16/2012
Renewing these partnerships enables Societe Generale Private Banking to offer its private clients the opportunity to play with top-level golfers through an exclusive events programme organised around this sport throughout the world.
04/16/2012
Fairbairn Private Bank today announced its strongest opening quarter for new business since the financial crisis commenced in 2008.
04/16/2012
J O Hambro Investment Management has added a new marketing manager to its charity team as it looks to add to the 95-strong list of charities for which it manages money.
04/13/2012
Cameron said this week he’s ready to be the first British premier to publish his tax returns, according to a person close to him, as he seeks to defuse accusations that he’ll benefit personally from a cut in the top rate of income tax next yea
04/13/2012
The WCAM name will disappear in the future and the four funds will take on the Liontrust branding.
04/12/2012
Mr Osborne said on Tuesday he was left shocked by the scale of legal tax avoidance by multi-millionaires.
04/12/2012
The schemes are often sold by rogue financial advisers who exploit weak consumer laws on the Continent by falsely claiming to be bona fide accountants.
04/12/2012
The big winners year to date are BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, TD Securities, Wells Fargo and HSBC. And the biggest losers are Barclays, Nomura, Goldman and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
04/12/2012
The move follows in the footsteps of Investec’s decision to rebrand Rensburg Sheppards after its takeover of the firm in 2010.
04/11/2012
7IM backs European financials
The group’s latest investment outlook explains that European equities as a whole have reached a point where they can be considered undervalued.
04/11/2012
New white paper on investing in a “new normal” environment of high volatility and low yields released
Authored by Yogi Thambiah and Nicolo’ Foscari, both from the Investment Strategy Americas CIO Office, the paper addresses how investors can adjust risk frameworks to deal with a “New Normal” environment of increasing volatility and low-