North America: US battle for rich pickings grows fiercer

The US private banking market is becoming increasingly competitive as domestic and foreign players battle it out for the country’s wealthiest clients, who are making increasingly complex demands that require more holistic approaches from banks. Private bankers’ salaries are at all-time highs and there seems little chance of them coming down in the near future. Helen Avery reports.

PETER SCATURRO, CHIEF executive of private bank US Trust, pithily summed up the US wealth management industry in a conference call discussing the acquisition of the firm by Bank of America in November 2006. “The US is a big place with a lot of money,” he said.

There’s no arguing with that. The growth of the high-net-worth population in the US is for the time being slowing (according to the Merrill Lynch/Capgemini World Wealth report, the number of high-net-worth individuals grew 6.8%

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