Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2012: Sum parts are bigger than others

Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2012: Sum parts are bigger than others

February 2012

To be the best, firms need positions of strength in the US, Europe and emerging markets. Being big in only two regions is no longer enough.


Investment

Impact investing: Banks and a fairer society

February 2012

Private banks are looking to help clients move away from the greed-is-good mentality.

Credit Suisse retains crown as top global private bank in benchmark Euromoney survey

February 2012

Some clear trends emerge from this year’s results. Notable among them is the leadership of local private banks in the key global battlegrounds of two of the fastest-growing markets. With global banks facing regulatory and business challenges, local specialist wealth managers are gaining ground in both developed and emerging markets.

UBS investment banking hits the bottom

February 2012

UBS isn’t doing too badly for a bank supposedly in the midst of a terminal crisis

Investment banking: The coming boom in FICC revenues

February 2012

The business is consolidating rapidly and survivors might enjoy rising market share and healthier margins.

Inside investment: Out of the shadows

February 2012

New strictures have breathed life into shadow banking – it now constitutes about a quarter of the global financial system – and regulators fear they have created a monster. But look closer and there's much more to this financial Frankenstein…

Facebook IPO gives venture capital industry a boost

February 2012

California’s economy likely to benefit

Investment banking and market consolidation ramp up sector transformation

February 2012

Euromoney reveals that certain markets and parts of investment banking are consolidating much faster than people realise, especially in fixed income, currency and commodities

Private banking heads still eye US, UK and other developed markets for growth

February 2012

Despite emerging markets being heralded as the beacon for growth, CEOs and global heads of private banking at the world’s largest firms tell Euromoney they are still expanding and seeking growth in the US and other developed markets

Private banking 2012: Barclays’ model behaviour

February 2012

Barclays Wealth has reinvented itself in just five years. With the benefit of heavy investment, it has developed a unique model of interacting with clients – using behavioural finance. It is targeting only high-net-worth clients and expanding globally.

Barclays Wealth – the psychoanalyst to the wealthy

January 2012

Euromoney takes a look at the unique reinvention of the wealth-management division of Barclays

Nigeria: Dual crises cause alarm in Abuja

February 2012

Government pursues key reforms; Strikes spur energy-sector shake-up

World’s wealthiest turn to impact investing

January 2012

Euromoney takes a look at how the 1% are focusing on investing for economic and social change

Investment banking league tables - Year End 2011

January 2012

Includes Bonds, Equities, Loans, M&A, MTN, Project Finance

Inside investment: Building blocks of recovery

January 2012

It is hard to be optimistic about 2012. But much of the bad news is reflected in prices and a confluence of factors could yet provide support for equity markets and other risky assets.

Africa’s new frontiers

January 2012

Country risk scores for Nigeria, Ghana, Gabon and Tanzania rose last year, with higher average-economic-outlook scores across the continent and a willingness in the international capital markets to finance African borrowers.

Bermuda looks to pioneer Western Shariah-compliant hub

January 2012

The favourable tax haven is actively seeking to become the first Western centre to provide a Shariah-compliant platform by reviewing its existing legislation

Investment banks: Dire second half hits 2011 fee income

January 2012

JPMorgan still top earner; Nomura fee income falls by 34%

Banking: VTB Capital revs up for international drive

January 2012

Hires Dubai Credit Suisse team; CEE special situations push

Latin America’s quiet private banking revolution

January 2012

Many banks have amassed 30%-plus growth in AUM in the past year.

Saudi Arabia: Reformers take the reins

January 2012

New government appointments in Saudi Arabia have sparked hopes that the Kingdom might adopt policies more oriented towards the private sector and foreign investment.

Investors could favour smaller funds in 2012

January 2012

With hedge fund redemptions on the rise, Euromoney takes a look at whether investors will be placing their confidence in smaller start-ups rather than larger hedge funds

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