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Exclusive: Client investment in equities on the rise

PBI speaks to some of the world’s leading private banks who have stated that investment in equities is on the rise, suggesting wider implications that the global economy is improving. Holly Parmenter reports.

Mizuho Securities appoints Asian fixed income trading head

Mizuho Securities Asia has hired Damian Rowe as managing director and head of fixed income trading for Asia Pacific excluding Japan.

Brooks Macdonald names intermediary sales manager

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management (BMAM) has named Lisa Brown as intermediary sales manager, who will be based out of the company’s London office.

HNWI Analysis: Fashion and Luxury

PBI has drawn on WealthInsight’s research to analyse a specific industry which plays a major part in driving high net worth wealth creation. This month PBI looked at Fashion and Luxury goods in France, the USA, UK, Italy and Switzerland.

J.P. Morgan investor confidence index continues to show optimistic signs in Hong Kong

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) today released the results of its 28th quarterly survey conducted for the J.P. Morgan Investor Confidence Index (JPMICI) in Hong Kong. The Index is designed to reflect local investor sentiment towards the Hong Kong market over the next 6 months.

Woodbury Financial launches Advisor Group’s VISION2020 Wealth Management platform

Woodbury Financial today has launched Advisor Group’s proprietary VISION2020 Wealth Management Platform to advisors. The platform is a web-based solution with leading portfolio management and trading tools, four unique investment options and simplified account administration that seamlessly integrates into the firm’s open architecture technology.

A foot in the future, a foot in the past

As befi ts a 341-year-old institution, C. Hoare & Co likes to depict itself as a genteel, old school bank, adhering to all the virtues of yesteryear, such as service and probity. While it stresses continuity over the centuries, in reality the bank is nowadays the essence of wealth management modernity

Lloyds sells international business to UBP for £100m

Lloyds is to sell its international private banking business to Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) for £100 million.

Private banking’s final great frontier

For most private banks, great swathes of the wealth management maps of Africa have long been client terra incognita. Now they are gearing up to attract business across much of the continent as private African super-wealth exceeds the $1 trillion mark.

Client dissatisfaction on rise across Greater China: McKinsey

Private banks in Greater China are failing to capture all of the potential market because of growing client dissatisfaction and lack of trust.