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• August 19, 2010 - Succession Planning - A Tripartite Approach
  

  The transition from one generation to the next is easily identifiable as the most difficult phase in the successful continuation of a family business.  From first to second generation, 70 per cent of businesses fail and only 10 per cent successfully make it to the third generation.  According to a study published in 2006, 30 per cent of family business failures can be attributed to "transfer failures".

• July 1, 2010 - China And Jersey - Success Breeds Success
  

  The tax advantages of using an offshore jurisdiction tend to be accepted as the main reason for going offshore. However, reputation and regulation are equally important.   More and more China's capital market investors and financiers are recognising that Jersey is the place to do business from incorporating investment vehicles as well as utilising Jersey's fund regime which provides the full suite of options, from very private structures to full retail funds, meeting most promoters' and investors' requirements.

• May 4, 2010 - SunGard Sees Spike In Technology Demand From Wealth Managers
  

  While many vendors selling into the wealth management space experienced hard times in the economic downturn of the past two years, SunGard found its business expanding as companies turned to technology to help them preserve assets under management and cut costs. SunGard is one of the world's largest software and technology services companies and its Financial Systems arm serves institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. At present, the firm has 20,000 employees in 70 countries, with revenues of more than $5 billion.

• March 21, 2010 - The Future For Trust Businesses In The Asia Region
  

  The Asia Pacific region has long been seen as the next big region for rapid and sustained success for the finance sector. With several firms opening offices in Hong Kong eager to tap into the region’s wealth, Matthew Corbin, director at Nerine Trust Company (Hong Kong) Limited, cautions that jumping on the bandwagon, and not knowing the region well, could be the wrong approach. Here, he sets out the recipe for success in the region.

• March 16, 2010 - Wealth Managers Look To Revolutionise Research Models
  

  A whole range of factors are prompting European wealth managers to reconsider the research practices which underpin their investment process, and they are increasingly looking at outsourcing to external research and information providers, a new study carried out by Scorpio Partnership and commissioned by Standard & Poor’s Equity Research reveals. The financial crisis has radically altered the financial services landscape, with wealth management no exception, and now, as the industry looks to rebuild, both firms and clients are taking a long, hard look at a whole range of business p. .

• February 1, 2010 - Organisation Insight - Standard Chartered Private Bank
  

  When much of the news has been filled with stories of job cuts, an institution that impressively bucks this trend by expanding its footprint is Standard Chartered Private Bank. This is a relatively young firm that has benefited greatly from its parent’s Asian heritage and footprint. Standard Chartered Private Bank’s ascent has been meteoric.

• October 5, 2009 - China: New Global Locomotive Or Old-Fashioned Asset Bubble?
  

  Chinese export markets were badly afflicted by the global scourge of economic retrenchment during the recent financial crisis. Fearful of slower growth and rising unemployment, the government reacted by unveiling a $585 billion stimulus package in late autumn. Fortunes have since turned; year-on-year GDP expanded by 7.

• July 26, 2009 - Litigation Risk Becomes Asian Wealth Market Headache
  

  As Asia joins the world's financial crisis, high net worth investors have proven ready to reach for their lawyers as part of an attempt to recover lost wealth, in court actions against big players like UBS, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. But while litigious action is breaking out in a number of Asian jurisdictions, the problems are not yet serious eno. .

• May 14, 2007 - Western Banks Line Up for Wealth Management in Japan
  

  Japan has always been one of the most difficult markets for western banks, but that has never stopped them from trying to enter the country. Now, a new wave of players is attempting to enter the wealth management and private banking markets of Japan to take advantage of the country’s rebounding sharemarket and economy, where an estimated five million people or 0. 4 per cent of Japan¹s population - have assets of Y100 million or more.

• March 19, 2007 - Asia's Most Influential Wealth Managers
  

  As perhaps the hottest private banking and wealth management market in the world, Asia is full of executives desperate to promote their firm, and full of firms desperate to poach influential bankers from their competitors. Here’s Wealth Briefing’s current non-exhaustive list of some of the region’s “most influential” private bankers, as of March 2007. Of course, we could blink an eye and any one of these people could soon be working for the opposition next week.




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