Murder in the Presidential Palace
The man in the video says: “If you are watching this message, it’s because I was murdered by Pres. Álvaro…
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Interview with Alan Miller as he launches new WM firm
Alan Miller, former New Star manager, has launched a new wealth management boutique with Alexander Spencer-Churchill in response to what…
ByFT: Wealthy form art syndicate to find bargains
A group of wealthy investors is forming a syndicate to buy two corporate art collections, worth up to $65m (£43m).…
ByGuardian: Sir Victor Blank to resign from Lloyds
Sir Victor Blank, one of Gordon Brown’s favourite businessmen, has been forced to step down as chairman of Lloyds Banking…
ByWith Friends Like These
Frenemies are useful and often do lovely things for each other: give great gifts, throw fab parties in each other’s…
ByHook, line, sunk
Next month will see the release of a film that hopes to do for fish what An Inconvenient Truth did…
ByPelosi's torturous position
Having been exposed in a lie, Pelosi has remained silent, saying there is no contradiction. Oh really? The pressure to…
ByiPhone, uPhone, noPhone
It turned out that somebody had ripped off ’ quite literally, for once ’ two iPhones. The staff were unperturbed.…
ByUK offshore tax amnesty may return for a third time
Some accountants and tax advisors, criticising the timing of the UK Treasury’s second offshore tax amnesty, believe a third amnesty…
ByEB: China allows mutual funds into WM market
SHANGHAI -(Dow Jones)- China is allowing mutual fund management companies to sell wealth-management products targeting multiple clients, effectively giving them…
ByTel: Flawless blue diamond fetches record £6.2m
A flawless blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats has sold for a record 10.5 million Swiss francs (£6.2 million), the highest…
ByCaroline Michel
To celebrate the Spear’s Book Awards on June 30th, Caroline Michel, one of the country’s top literary agents and CEO…
ByMoody’s downgrades Close Bros, Lloyds Offshore
Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the outlook on UK banks Close Brothers and Lloyds TSB Offshore Limited from stable to…
ByWBrief: Coutts rebuts tax avoidance charges
UK-private bank Coutts & Co has reacted angrily to insinuations in the national press that it is currently involved in…
By$1tr Islamic world debt starts to look shaky
Banking systems in the Muslim world may be heading for testing times, amid growing concerns over the fundamental stability of…
BySoros: The worst has passed, slump soon to end
The global economy has already passed the worst of the crisis and should soon pull out of its slump, led…
ByWBrief: Obama looking to financiers for revenue
US President Barack Obama is increasingly turning to financiers and the firms that employ them as a source of revenue…
ByAIG to begin payouts to investors from frozen fund
AIG Life is to pay out £100 million to investors in its protected recovery fund, in the first of a…
ByReuters: Odey AM not abandoning Britain
LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge fund firm Odey Asset Management says it will not abandon Britain, despite government plans for higher…
ByBloomberg: Bidders for Kleinwort Benson mooted
May 11 (Bloomberg) — Commerzbank AG is likely to sell its Kleinwort Benson Private Bank unit to Schroders Plc, Standard…
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