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Frankfurt home to highest number of Germany’s UHNWIs

Frankfurt home to highest number of Germany’s UHNWIs

Berkshire based wealth management company liquidates two pension schemes

A Berkshire based wealth management company, Pearson Jones, has terminated two pension schemes, affecting hundreds of UK investors and the individual plans sold to another provider.

Oppenheimer hires High Yield tax exempt portfolio manager

Oppenheimer Asset Management, a unit of Oppenheimer Holdings, has appointed Tim Pynchon as managing director – portfolio manager for High Yield tax exempt funds, based in the Boston office.

Franklin Templeton hires ex-BlackRock sales head as its advisory head

Franklin Templeton has hired former BlackRock head of UK retail, Mark Elliott, as head of advisory following a reshuffle of the firm’s UK sales team.

Sustainable & scalable

PBi HK Forum 2013: Societe Generale Private Banking
Societe Generale Private Banking’s Asia-Pacific CEO, Olivier Gougeon, explains why sustainability, rather than size, is top of his agenda.

ABN AMRO axes 14 jobs in Guernsey: reports

Dutch banking major ABN AMRO has slashed 14 jobs in Guernsey, according to a report published by the BBC.

British prosecutor to press criminal charges against central Libor suspect

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is set to press criminal charges against Thomas Hayes, a former Citigroup and UBS trader, for his alleged role in rigging the global Libor rate.

Fidelity names Bolton successor for China special situations fund

Fidelity has hired portfolio manager Dale Nicholls to succeed veteran investor Anthony Bolton on the investment firm’s UK-domiciled China special situations fund.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank forms working group on FATCA

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has established a working group on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Banco Espirito Santo bids to buy Generali’s Swiss private banking unit

Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo has, reportedly, made a bid to buy Swiss private bank BSI, the private banking unit of Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali.