Madoff investor kills himself
A hedge fund manager facing $1.4bn in losses from Bernard Madoff’s record-breaking Wall Street fraud has been found dead in…
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Wealth, War and Wisdom
Wealth, War and Wisdom Barton Biggs Wiley Review by Christopher Silvester Reading this book while the world gets to grips…
ByIt’s Not All About Money: Memoirs of a Private Banker
It’s Not All About Money Memoirs of a Private BankerHans J Baer Beaufort Books Review by Martin Vander Weyer ‘The…
ByGucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House
Gucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House Jenny Gucci John…
ByIt’s Not All About Money: Memoirs of a Private Banker
‘The little gnomes of Zurich’ was a phrase famously used by prime minister Harold Wilson in 1964 to describe Swiss…
ByGucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House
You’ll be expecting Tom Ford, of course. But there isn’t a word about him here. How could you publish a…
ByBeyond the balance sheet
Brown’s much-vaunted ’500,000,000,000 bank bail-out is bust. Brown’s much-vaunted £500,000,000,000 bank bail-out is as bust as the braggart’s claim that…
ByThe Morality of Money
Is there such a thing as spending money in a moral way, wonders William Cash, as the Archbishop of Canterbury…
BySocGen subsidiary sold to GLG Partners
Société Générale Asset Management has reached an agreement to sell its London-based asset management subsidiary SGAM UK to hedge fund…
ByMadoff Makes Fools of Financiers
The most aggravating factor with the Madoff scandal is that so many banking geniuses fell for it, says Josh Spero.…
ByExpat exodus looms among UK-based financiers
Signs are emerging that many highly skilled overseas professionals working in the UK are considering whether the time has now…
ByMorgan Stanley tops Goldman’s fourth quarter loss
Morgan Stanley has announced a fourth quarter loss of $2.19 billion, almost double what analysts had expected. Morgan Stanley has…
ByPunch-up, crunch-up
A Short and True Melodrama in One Act A Short and True Melodrama in One Act Starring Gordon “Superman” Brown,…
ByBe Cool
Christopher Silvester on the icy-calm business of crisis management For wealthy and powerful individuals, a crisis means negative media exposure…
ByUK house prices ‘to fall by 30 percent’
The head of Barclays bank has predicted that economic gloom will deepen, with property prices falling by up to 30…
BySwiss private bank makes senior appointments
Swiss private bank Clariden Leu appoints two senior officials to its executive Board. Clariden Leu, the Geneva-based bank, which is…
By30,000 jobs to go at combined BoA Merrill operations
Bank of America will cut between 30,000 and 35,000 jobs, once its takeover of Merrill Lynch is completed in early…
ByDivide and Conquer
If choice is the modern mantra, most wealth managers do not seem to be intoning it. If choice is the…
ByChina-Rothschild investment still pending
Bank of China is still awaiting the Chinese government’s approval to buy a 20 percent stake in France’s La Compagnie…
ByCity vacancies up, salaries down
Job vacancies in London’s financial services industry have spiralled since the credit crisis began last August, says a report from…
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