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Compliance
14 October 2025

The Source Of Wealth Verification Challenge – A Selection Of Recent Coverage

As the topic of verifying "source of wealth" becomes more prominent as a regulatory technology, compliance and competition concern in different jurisdictions, we set out a summary of the main stories that we've ...

Compliance
13 October 2025

Bank of Singapore Deploys AI To Accelerate Source Of Wealth Verification

With “source of wealth” (SoW) tests becoming increasingly important in the fight against money laundering, using technology to help in the process is speeding it up. Slow onboarding times give the process fr...

M and A
13 October 2025

WH Ireland Shares Under Pressure As Market Digests Failed Takeover Bid

Negotiations can continue until the end of this year between the parties, Oberon said in a statement last week, after shareholders threw out its proposal for a takeover. ...

Surveys
13 October 2025

Ahead Of UK Autumn Budget, Client Queries Surge – Rathbones Survey

A new survey commissioned by UK wealth manager Rathbones shows that independent financial advisors have reported a surge in enquiries. Among their principal needs, clients want complex rules explained in simple ...

Client Affairs
13 October 2025

Minister Hails Business Benefits Of 2026 Budget, Fund Initiatives

At the Mediolanum International Funds event in Dublin last week, following Ireland announcing its 2026 budget, Irish Minister of State for Finance Robert Troy outlined how the measures will benefit industry and...

People Moves
13 October 2025

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – T Rowe Price Names New EMEA Distribution Head

The latest moves, appointments, and personnel changes in wealth management for the UK, rest of Europe, the Middle East and select international jurisdictions. ...

Investment Strategies
13 October 2025

Former Irish Deputy PM Frowns On US Economic Strategy

A policy based on tariffs, dollar devaluation and an attempt to wrest trade control back into US hands gives the lie to the idea that the Trump government approach is chaotic, but it is also flawed, a former Iri...

M and A
10 October 2025

Lloyds, Schroders Confirm Wealth JV Ownership Move

Lloyds Banking Group will fully own the JV, acquiring a stake from Schroders. On the other side, Schroders has bought a 19.1 per cent stake in Lloyds' Cazenove Capital. ...

Strategy
10 October 2025

UK's Growthdeck Rebrands

The firm is riding on the wave of private market investments, focusing on areas such as early-stage companies in the UK. ...

Surveys
10 October 2025

More Than Half Of UK Citizens Want To Abolish Inheritance Tax – Survey

A new YouGov poll commissioned by London law firm Kingsley Napley shows increased opposition to tougher IHT rules. Meanwhile, TWM Solicitors has reacted to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch's announced plans to ...

Statistics
10 October 2025

Hong Kong To Grab Global Top Spot For IPOs This Year – KPMG

These important liquidity events, which can be a barometer of a financial centre's vigour, are watched by wealth managers. On that basis, private bankers and others in Hong Kong will be uncorking the champagne. ...

M and A
10 October 2025

HSBC Proposes To Acquire All Of Hang Seng; Shares Fall

HSBC reinforces its Asia focus with a proposed move to buy all of Hang Seng in which it already owns 63 per cent. Shareholders sold the bank's stocks amidst a temporary halt to share buybacks. ...

Surveys
10 October 2025

Closing Europe’s Productivity Gap – Here's How

A study released this week via the funds industry of Luxembourg and McGill University entitled “Europe’s Productive Capital Gap: Mobilising Pension and Household Savings to Scale Up Risk Capital,” showed t...

Philanthropy
10 October 2025

LGT's US Wealth Arm Vaunts American Football Links

The annual programme is part of LGT's wealth business' policy to support the local community and engage with more young people in sport and development. ...

Guest Articles

Investment Strategies
13 October 2025

Keep It Real: Seeking Safety, Returns Amid Currency Debasement, State Interference – Pictet

The Swiss wealth management firm examines the broad approaches investors should take at a time of an eroding dollar, a more activist and unpredictable set of government policies. ...

Wealth Strategies
10 October 2025

What Advisors Must Know About Novice Investors 

The following article examines how advisors should work with first-time investors – avoiding the mistakes of presuming too much and assuming familiarity with arcane jargon, while also avoiding the mistake of p...

Strategy
9 October 2025

From Beneficiaries To Builders: The Strategic Rise Of Female Saudi Arabian Wealth Holders

An authority on family offices in Saudi Arabia and the wider world – and a prominent figure at the Columbia Business School – sets out why women of wealth in Saudi Arabia are an important cohort for wealth ...

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Compliance
19 September 2025

From Cryptos To Singapore’s COSMIC World – New Frontiers In Compliance

This news service discusses establishing sources of wealth, the challenge of cryptos in a market dramatically changed by the current US administration, suspicious activity reports (SARs), and more. ...

Strategy
1 September 2025

Swapping Singapore For London – Reflections From Lombard Odier's Vincent Magnenat

A senior private banker for Lombard Odier, working for many years in Singapore, has made the move to the rather more heavily taxed location of London, but one from which he sees plenty of opportunities for growt...

Wealth Strategies
27 August 2025

BNY Investments Insights On Global Credit Markets

Here is a new offering from BNY Investments in conjunction with this publication. ...

Wealth Strategies
31 July 2025

Spotlight On Rise In Guernsey’s Private Wealth, South Africa Connection – FNB

As First National Bank celebrated its 10-year milestone in Guernsey and unveiled a new office this week, dignatories and senior FNB executives gathered to highlight the importance of offshore banking, the growin...

Asset Management
7 July 2025

Index Investing Has A "Reconstitution" Problem: How To Fix It

We talk to Dimensional Fund Advisors about why index investing in the conventional sense raises a number of challenges that aren't widely appreciated. ...

Tax
1 July 2025

Non-Dom Businesswoman Voices Anger, Plans Exit As UK Rules Change

We talk to a businesswoman, TV personality, academic and author about her annoyance, and frustrations, about the changes to the non-domicile system, and what she thinks needs to be done instead to attract tax re...

Research Reports

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Article Categories

Alt Investments
4 November 2024

In Troubled Times, What's The Investment Case For Fine Alcohol?

Whether it is fine wine, whisky or cask tequila, there is a case, so advocates for investing say, to hold these amidst geopolitical troubles. There will always be arguments about just how correlated these items ...

Real Estate
26 June 2024

As HNW Individuals Seek Options, An Adriatic Resort Prepares

Luxury resorts based in low-tax jurisdictions have been around for decades; given the winds of change in certain countries when it comes to tax – such as the UK – places seeking to attract HNW individuals ha...

Alt Investments
12 June 2024

Riding The Infrastructure Train Is Positive Journey For UK Advisor

We talk to the manager of a listed infrastructure fund about the asset class, its potential and a few challenges that arise. Major fund firms are buying into the infrastructure space, suggesting it is a hot area...

Alt Investments
4 June 2024

An Expert Sparring Partner For Wealthy Investors In Alternatives

A Germany-headquartered multi-family office, which won a capital market licence earlier this year, talks about how UHNW investors can and should work with such firms to tap into expertise and gain insights. ...

Alt Investments
23 January 2024

Japan's VC Sector Gathers Momentum

While Silicon Valley has hogged much of the limelight in VC, Japan's much smaller sector hasn't enjoyed the same kind of attention, but reforms and other changes mean that this obscurity is fading, an investment...

Alt Investments
4 October 2023

How Hedge Fund Investors Keep Composed In Volatile World

This news service talks to Sussex Partners, a UK-based business that advises institutions about hedge fund allocations. With markets often volatile at times, and recovering after the selloffs of 2022, what appro...

Compliance
19 September 2025

From Cryptos To Singapore’s COSMIC World – New Frontiers In Compliance

This news service discusses establishing sources of wealth, the challenge of cryptos in a market dramatically changed by the current US administration, suspicious activity reports (SARs), and more. ...

Compliance
18 March 2025

Transparency International – The Latest Lessons For Wealth Managers

Transparency International's recently-published Corruption Perceptions Index, used by compliance officers and money-laundering-reporting officers (MLROs) at private banks worldwide to determine country risk, sho...

Compliance
15 December 2023

Handling HNW Clients' Data Via Tokenization – An Overview

Banks and other players in the wealth management space transfer data across borders – a fact becoming more significant as globalisation has taken place. How information can be moved without falling foul of reg...

Compliance
29 November 2023

One Year On From CJEU Ruling Vs Public Registers Of Beneficial Ownership

An organisation working in the field of compliance and regulation argues that last year's European court ruling against public registers of beneficial ownership was a serious blow to being able to onboard people...

Compliance
15 November 2023

Can Rapid Account-Opening Coexist Alongside Heightened Compliance?

The approach that banks and other wealth management industry players take towards handling politically exposed persons (PEPs), know-your-client (KYC) tasks and the vexed topic of "de-banking" is discussed by thi...

Compliance
9 November 2023

FINMA's Cryptocurrency Stance Makes Swiss Industry Nervous

Switzerland has made waves in the world of cryptos and digital assets. Its "crypto valley" in Zug is now one of the more recognised centres of this space. Industry figures are becoming concerned about how the re...

ESG
9 May 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Spotlight On Regenerative Agriculture, Forestry – SLM Partners

Paul McMahon, a co-founder and managing partner of asset manager SLM Partners, discusses why there has been higher investor interest in regenerative agriculture and forestry recently and why it has potential to ...

ESG
14 November 2023

How Blending Philanthropy, Investment Creates "Win-Wins" – Pictet

This news service recently spoke to a senior Pictet figure about the work it does on sustainability, impact investing, and philanthropy – areas which increasingly intersect. ...

ESG
14 November 2023

"Greenwashing" Controversies Focus Minds On What Investors Own

This news service talks to the MFO – born from a series of corporate mergers and acquisitions – about how controversies in areas of ESG investing and sustainability are ultimately positive in the long run if...

ESG
13 September 2022

Fossil Fuels And Transition: What's The Direction Of Travel?

A commentator on ESG and sustainability talks to this publication about the transition from fossil fuels – not necessarily a straightforward process, as suggested by the disruption to global energy markets cau...

ESG
16 August 2022

Pushback Against ESG: Collective Action Or Collective Suicide?

The supposedly remorseless drive against carbon-based energy towards areas such as wind, solar, hydrogen, biomass and other technologies has, among other events, been interrupted by Russia's squeeze of gas expor...

ESG
15 July 2022

Greenwashing: How Big Is The Problem And How To Fix It?

With the rush of money into the area of "green" and ESG investing, a concern arises about how faithful investments are to such ideas. Greenwashing has become an oft-repeated concern. We talk to a wealth manageme...

Family Office
25 October 2023

EXCLUSIVE: A Walk Around Germany's Single-Family Offices Sector – Part 2

In part one of this two-part feature, this publication talked to German banks about their work with the country's single-family offices. Now it is the turn of Swiss banks to discuss how they approach the German ...

Family Office
24 October 2023

EXCLUSIVE: A Walk Around Germany's Single-Family Offices Sector – Part 1

As it is high time that this news service took a deep dive into the German single-family offices sector, we talked to some of the country's banks who serve it, and set out the scale of what this sector holds. ...

Family Office
28 September 2023

Family Offices Aren't Shunning Risk, But Getting Smarter – Citi Private Bank

After its survey emerged a few weeks ago, Citi Private Bank spoke again to this news service about the insights it gleaned, and also reflected on why it gained such a large increase in responses this year. ...

Family Office
7 November 2022

EXCLUSIVE: LNG – A Growth Driver For Three Groups Of Single Family Offices

Demand for liquified natural gas, aka LNG, is high amidst a global energy crisis, magnified by Russia's attempted conquest of Ukraine and the aftershocks of the pandemic. We look at family offices that are tappi...

Family Office
3 May 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Europe And North America – Single Family Offices Compared

The extended coverage of single family offices by Highworth Research's database – working with WealthBriefing - throws up all kinds of useful data points for people tracking the sector. ...

Investment Strategies
19 December 2024

2025 Private Credit Predictions: An Expert Perspective

A 26-year veteran of the alternative investments sphere – including private credit – explains what 2025 may hold for an area that has expanded rapidly in recent years. ...

Investment Strategies
18 November 2024

US Equities, Dollar Delivers Ringing Endorsement Of Trump. What Now? – WELREX - Part 2

We publish the second part of this analysis which examines the implications of the US presidential election result and what they mean for specific asset classes. ...

Investment Strategies
14 November 2024

US Equities And Dollar Have Delivered Ringing Endorsement Of Trump. What Now? – WELREX - Part 1

The first in a two-part detailed analysis about what the financial markets could do in the next year, and how the arrival of a new US administration affects risks, asset allocation and positioning. ...

Investment Strategies
1 August 2024

Stonehage Fleming Leans Into Tech, Healthcare

A desire for delivering above-average organic growth, and firms that have a strong culture and focus on innovation has led the manager of a fund to hold some of the biggest names in modern commerce. He explains ...

Investment Strategies
5 March 2024

Managing Autocracy Risk Is Big Wealth Protector

A quick perusal of news headlines underscores why the risk of holding firms exposed to dictatorships, seizure of assets, sanctions and disruptions must be closely managed, to an extent that arguably is not yet f...

Investment Strategies
22 August 2023

Value And Growth – Japan’s Promise And Performance

This news service recently talked to a UK-based investment house that concentrates on Japanese investments and the opportunities it sees building in the country. ...

Offshore
9 December 2024

The Bahamas: A Complete and Compelling Choice 2024

This publication carries a spread of articles and insights about the Caribbean jurisdiction. ...

Offshore
31 July 2024

The Bahamas' Push For Climate Justice, Tapping Digital Assets Growth Story

The Caribbean jurisdiction has been through its fair share of challenges. Today, the international financial centre says it is very much on the front foot in areas ranging from climate finance, digital assets, f...

Offshore
1 July 2024

The Bahamas: A Complete And Compelling Choice – Part 1

The document has been put together by the Caribbean jurisdiction's financial services sector alongside this publication. This is the first of a two-part series. ...

Offshore
17 April 2024

How Citizenship/Residency-By Investment Programmes Evolved - And What's Next

A marker for globalisation and the degree of unfettered movement that people enjoy, the market for so-called "golden visas" - has developed rapidly since early days when dominated by a handful of jurisdictions. ...

Offshore
12 April 2023

Why Residency/Citizenship-By-Investment Visas Aren't Going Away

This news service speaks to a business that has offices in a number of jurisdictions – including Russia – which advises people on visa programmes aimed at wealthy individuals and their families. ...

Offshore
6 March 2023

The Squeeze On Investment Visas – What Should Happen Now?

With these programmes, the subject of this interview says, the benefit is not just in the initial investment but all the investments later on, the taxes paid, the money spent in the economy, and the jobs created...

Philanthropy
17 June 2025

New Report On Philanthropy, Ethical Investment

The state of HNW philanthropy throughout the world today – WealthBriefing's ground-breaking report is now available. ...

Philanthropy
2 February 2024

Making An Impact - In Conversation With Big Issue Group's Nigel Kershaw

WealthBriefing talks to a prominent figure in the UK philanthropy/impact investing world, involved with Big Issue Invest and The Big Issue Group. For much of his life, Nigel Kershaw has worked in the space, foun...

Philanthropy
26 January 2024

Taking Risks Out Of Philanthropy

We talk to law firm Farrer & Co and a lawyer working in the charities area about the kind of themes emerging in the philanthropy sector in the UK. ...

Philanthropy
7 December 2023

Philanthropy In Testing Times: A Transatlantic Perspective

Whether it is sunset clauses on foundations, arguments about purpose, help with clients about complexity, or other tasks, the role of philanthropic advice isn't a "soft" topic for wealth managers and banks. This...

Philanthropy
25 July 2023

Bringing Great Eye Vision To The Poor – A Hong Kong Philanthropist's Tale

Chen’s philanthropy journey throws light on an important aspect of charity that can be overlooked. And his story also highlights lessons that advisors can share with clients on the topic. ...

Philanthropy
20 December 2022

Asset Allocation For Philanthropists Gets Tough

Rising inflation, falling stock markets, pleas for help and donors' own financial constraints mean that charities' coffers are strained. How should asset allocation and liquidity be managed at such a time, or sh...

Strategy
1 September 2025

Swapping Singapore For London – Reflections From Lombard Odier's Vincent Magnenat

A senior private banker for Lombard Odier, working for many years in Singapore, has made the move to the rather more heavily taxed location of London, but one from which he sees plenty of opportunities for growt...

Strategy
28 February 2025

Private Banks' Onboarding Limitations Revealed – And How To Fix Them

Client onboarding in private banking is riddled with inefficiencies – not just for high-risk clients but across the board – according to a study.  ...

Strategy
10 September 2024

With Outsourced CIO Models, There's No Substitute For Experience – SEI

We talk to the Oaks, Pennsylvania-headquartered firm about its outsourced CIO business and the dynamics shaping it.     ...

Strategy
26 June 2024

The Good, The Difficult And The Stable – What Headhunters See Around The World

We talk to wealth management headhunters in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia about what they see as the important trends in the industry right now. ...

Strategy
19 February 2024

IQ-EQ Says US Wealth, Family Offices Sector Holds Big Opportunities

We talk to the group about its views on the potential, and the needs, of sectors such as US family offices. The firm has been in expansion mode worldwide, including North America. ...

Strategy
16 February 2024

Singapore's Seviora Capital Intensifies Focus On Asian Food, Agriculture

Asia, which is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population, will need to produce more using fewer resources to feed its growing population. ...

Tax
1 July 2025

Non-Dom Businesswoman Voices Anger, Plans Exit As UK Rules Change

We talk to a businesswoman, TV personality, academic and author about her annoyance, and frustrations, about the changes to the non-domicile system, and what she thinks needs to be done instead to attract tax re...

Tax
1 October 2024

Non-Doms, Fairness And Family Enterprise – In Conversation With Philip Marcovici

While debate appears open on whether and how the UK's non-dom system will disappear, we talk to a lawyer, author and expert about how wealthy international citizens are taxed, and what's needed to square the dem...

Tax
9 October 2023

Sparing No One: Cross-Border Taxation of Globally Mobile Individuals – Part 2

This article continues to examine – via the circumstances of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Sussexes – the issues that arise when a taxpayer is subject to tax in two countries such as the US and UK. This is th...

Tax
6 October 2023

Sparing No One: Cross-Border Taxation of Globally Mobile Individuals - Part 1

This is the first of a highly detailed examination of cross-border tax issues for individuals living overseas and often using multiple jurisdictions. ...

Tax
21 February 2023

Soaring Inheritance Tax Receipts Highlight Need For Reform

Inheritance tax receipts are rising, and this suggests that tax brackets are capturing a wider section of the population than was envisaged when such levies started more than a century ago.  ...

Tax
23 February 2022

As UK Raises Taxes, Where Do Venture Capital Trusts Fit In?

Investment vehicles that have certain tax advantages over time are more popular when certain entities, such as pensions, are squeezed as governments try to raise revenue. The author of this article makes the cas...

Technology
19 February 2025

The Soaring Trend Of AI "Co-Pilots" In Wealth Management

We hear much commentary today about the use of AI "co-pilots" in financial services. What do they do, and how far will their use go? This article is part of a series in which we examine use cases for AI. ...

Technology
14 May 2024

Exclusive: FIS Focuses On AI’s Wealth Management Role

Russell Andrews, head of wealth and asset management EMEA, capital markets at Florida-headquartered Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), discusses with this news service how wealth management will evol...

Technology
5 February 2024

How T3 Experts See Artificial Intelligence

AI may not have dominated discussions at the recent annual T3 conference in Las Vegas, but nonetheless, it remains a key topic for wealth advisors. ...

Technology
21 August 2023

How AI Can Raise Wealth Management Game In The Gulf

With artificial intelligence technology gathering headlines and stirring controversy – and excitement – we examine how it could affect private banking and wealth management in the Middle East. ...

Technology
6 February 2023

An Economic Era Of Data Democratisation?

The author of this article talks about the economic background of inflation and economic difficulties to argue that the "democratisation of data" is key to driving innovation in such a time. ...

Technology
2 February 2023

Where Next For Banks And Digital Assets?

The rout in prices of cryptocurrencies and certain entities last year shook the sector and has left banks, wealth managers and other asking lots of questions. This article addresses some of them. ...

White Papers
11 January 2024

The Bahamas: A Complete And Compelling Choice – White Paper

This news service is delighted to unveil the full edition of the Bahamas-focused publication that ranges across topics from digital assets to investment analysis. ...

White Papers
6 December 2023

The Bahamas: A Complete And Compelling Choice – Part 4

In the final part of a four-part series, this news service issues a report about developments in the Caribbean jurisdiction. ...

White Papers
23 November 2023

New Report: How Wealth Ecosystem, Healthcare Interact

The boundaries between health and wealth increasingly intersect and a new report from China's Hywin in conjunction with this news service explores the many facets. ...

White Papers
13 October 2023

Research: Tech & Ops Wealth Trends In Wealth Management 2023

The 26-page report examines the issues and concerns affecting the shape of technology and operations in the world's wealth management sector. ...

White Papers
21 September 2023

Winning Women In MENA: How Wealth Managers Can Help Further Female Empowerment

A new report from this news service, in partnership with First Abu Dhabi bank, explores what HNW women in the region want from advisors, and why it is also important for firms to understand and serve these clien...

White Papers
22 August 2023

Jersey Finance Report On Digital Assets, Crypto-Currencies

A new report, published with the island's financial promotional organisation, sets out the issues in and around digital assets and crypto-currencies such as bitcoin. ...