Wealth Management

Private banks sell rival brands on client demand

GENEVA (Reuters) - Wealth managers are packing their shelves with products built by their competitors as rich clients demand top financial performance in every asset class regardless of who provides it.

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Private bankers use art to lure the rich

GENEVA (Reuters) - Private banks are rushing to add art consulting to their traditional list of investment services in a bid to lure wealthy clients with increasingly demanding needs, top bankers told a Reuters Wealth Management Summit.

Japanese activist fund woos the wealthy

TOKYO (Reuters) - Junichiro Sano's mission as the head of Japanese operations for Dalton Investments is to shake up poorly managed companies, a goal supported by affluent investors in the world's second-biggest economy.

Banks use networks to tap newly affluent clients

GENEVA (Reuters) - Banks with large office networks across the globe are increasingly stepping into the wealth management business and tapping a big client base that traditional Swiss private banks miss.

Private banks see opportunity in aging society

GENEVA (Reuters) - With an aging global population seeking to get old in comfort, private banks are tapping into the growing needs of the wealthy who expect to live longer and leave money behind for their children.

Mega-rich get the personal touch

GENEVA (Reuters) - From the golden beaches of Saint- Tropez to the pristine ski slopes of Gstaad it's the personal touch which has become the hallmark of bankers managing the money of the world's super-rich.

U.S. banks target family-company market

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. banks are setting up new departments to provide investment banking to family-owned companies and trying to persuade private bankers and investment bankers to work together for these clients.

World's rich stop taking and start giving

GENEVA (Reuters) - After years of taking, the world's aging rich increasingly want to give back to the communities where they earned their fortunes, according to top bankers to the wealthy.

Investors keep hedge funds despite two big losers

GENEVA (Reuters) - Private bankers say clients remain sanguine about the hedge fund industry in spite of billions of dollars in losses reported by two top hedge funds in the past month.

Private banks welcome regulatory crackdown

GENEVA (Reuters) - Leading bankers to the world's wealthy welcomed a regulatory crackdown from officials seeking to hinder tax evasion and money laundering, saying it was good for their business despite a huge increase in compliance costs.

Super rich investors cautious as markets surge

GENEVA (Reuters) - Stock markets are soaring to new highs but wealthy investors are not rushing willy-nilly into risky investments as many recall the market declines of the recent past, private banking heads in Europe and the United States said.

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