09/20/2011
Few economies felt the pain of the last financial crisis as much as Singapore. But the city-state bounced back sharply, and has lately gained traction as a regional and global leader in private banking and wealth management.
09/20/2011
It is the bank's 38th private banking center in China, filling a gap for the service in Tibet and aiming to serve the region's burgeoning private financial needs, said Han Wenzhen, president of the Tibet branch of the CCB.
09/16/2011
HSBC and metals consultancy GFMS both said they see gold rising above $2,000 an ounce, citing high government debt levels and instability in the currency markets, even as spot prices slipped back below the $1,800 mark.
09/16/2011
IIFL Private Wealth awarded ‘Best Wealth Management House in India’
09/16/2011
The unpredictable behaviour of the markets has left many clients I have been meeting confused about where to invest: equities, bonds, gold or real estate?
09/16/2011
The key issue for China now is to focus on implementing bold, comprehensive reforms to rebalance wealth distribution
09/16/2011
They made their fortunes from China’s economic boom, but many of China’s wealthy are hoping to leave the country, taking their money with them.
09/15/2011
The Indian wealth market is one of the fastest growing in the Asia Pacific region.
09/15/2011
Membership has its privileges, particularly in China where it's proving to be a prerequisite for climbing the social ladder.
09/15/2011
Another report says Chinese millionaires will make up half the population of high-net-worth people in Asia in the coming years.
09/13/2011
Ajay Piramal is just the sort of big fish every Indian private banker would love to land.
09/09/2011
The fortunes of social media entrepreneurs including the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg; the brains behind Zynga, Mark Pincus; and the man who introduced Twitter, Jack Dorsey, are at an all-time high, according to a study on 30 of the world's r
09/09/2011
Super-luxury brands like Ducati, Jimmy Choo, Canali, Hermes and others sail high as slowdown fails to impact Indian consumers
09/09/2011
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, has launched “Fat cats in fast lanes: Surge in high net worth individuals” report, examining the surge of wealth in the region.
09/09/2011
And along with the only slightly less privileged they’ve made a significant impact on the global luxury market, dishing out $26 billion last year on capitalist trappings like insanely expensive cars, yachts, private jets and even helicopters.
09/09/2011
The Planning Commission wants India to set up a sovereign wealth fund with an initial corpus of USD 10 billion, mainly to invest in energy and mining assets abroad.
09/09/2011
An intriguing array of private jets swarms Indian skies as India's billionaires revel in luxury.
09/08/2011
Julius Baer Group Ltd. (BAER) Chief Executive Officer Boris Collardi enters the 18th-floor meeting room in the bank’s Hong Kong offices lugging a suitcase that contains a clue to the soaring pay of Asian private bankers.
09/08/2011
Credit Suisse is considering paring back its onshore U.S. wealth management business and expanding in Asia as part of a revamp of its private banking, a Swiss newspaper reported.
09/08/2011
IF ONLY all mergers and acquisitions could be as swiftly completed as Standard Chartered Bank's swallowing of local specialist resource advisory group Gryphon Partners.