Private banking: The ins and outs of open architecture

Offering third-party products proved no panacea in the financial crisis, yet clients still distrust an exclusively in-house approach. As the focus returns to increasing revenues, private banks are rethinking their models. Helen Avery reports.

Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2011

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Features

Private banks rebuild trust and sharpen their focus

The ins and outs of open architecture

Model portfolios – a private banking solution?

Regaining trust, restoring returns

Brazil’s private banks compete head-on for risk-averse clients

Private banks set Russian growth agenda

Wealth managers chase India’s burgeoning rich

Foreign and local banks battle for China’s golden generation

The Survey
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Methodology

AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE approach, with private bankers agnostic as to which bank’s products they use for their clients, so long as they are the best products, always seemed more of a marketing ploy than strict reality.

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