Clients are not satisfied by the technological capabilities of their wealth managers, putting firms under pressure to upgrade

Wealth management firms have suffered from falling valuations and need to adapt their business models to an environment of rising regulation and a frail economic recovery

The damage to banks reputations from scandals will make it harder for these institutions to secure private client business

It is looking increasingly likely that many of the big global financial players will seek to offload some of their private banking operations, but who might step in to buy them?

By combining buy-and-hold investing with short-term opportunism, wealth managers are learning from institutional investors

A number of UK-based financial services firms are likely to come onto the market in the near future, but any such developments are more likely to be about sellers wanting out than buyers looking to get into private banking

Tougher regulation around the world is driving consolidation within the wealth management market

Although assets under management have been changing hands, the Swiss financial industry is not seeing the kind of consolidation through mergers and acquisitions that many were predicting