Wealthy Asians are gradually coming round to the need to put firm plans in place for the transfer of wealth between generations, creating opportunities for private banks offering suitable structures
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Wealth managers taking a leaf out of the institutional book
By combining buy-and-hold investing with short-term opportunism, wealth managers are learning from institutional investors
Setting foot in overseas markets
Global wealth and asset managers are increasingly looking overseas for partnerships with local players, but this road to expansion can be a hazardous one
Leading players to dispose of private banking offshoots
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?
Untenable positions may force UK firms to seek buyers
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
Asian ambition drives Julius Baer’s BofA move
By buying Bank Of America Merrill Lynch’s wealth management arm, Julius Baer has doubled its presence in Asia, but their new unit needs something of an overhaul if it is to become profitable
Swiss banks search for alternatives to M&A boom
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
Time for investment houses to accelerate pace of change
Investment houses must come to terms with the realities of the modern financial world by redeveloping their business models to preserve client capital while being able to seize opportunities as they arise
HNW population remains steady despite global tremors
High net worth individuals’ investable assets have fallen this year, while the costs associated with managing that money is on the rise
The new face of banking
With the number of Facebook users potentially close to reaching its peak, perhaps now is the time for the company to branch out and revolutionise the banking sector
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