All articles by Paul Golden
Paul Golden
Analysis: India – The best of times
A combination of growing numbers of high net worth individuals and families and greater willingness to engage with the wealth management industry represents a considerable opportunity for providers of private banking services in India.
Analysis: EM financial institutions accept taxing task
Despite ongoing concerns over the cost of implementation and monitoring, a growing number of emerging market financial institutions have accepted the necessity of complying with FATCA.
Exclusive: Is private banking a global or local game?
An understanding of the needs of client groups with common interests can be as important as an appreciation of national nuances for private banks and wealth managers, writes Paul Golden.
Exclusive: M&A impact remains uncertain
Despite limited clarity around the success of recent mergers and acquisitions, there is a clear expectation that the pace of private bank consolidation will hasten in 2014, writes Paul Golden.
Exclusive: Offshore financial centres
In the face of ever-increasing regulation and international scrutiny, offshore financial centres face a stark choice – adapt or die. Paul Golden delves deeper.
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Offshore financial centres stand their ground
In the face of ever-increasing regulation and international scrutiny, offshore financial centres face a stark choice – adapt or die. Paul Golden delves deeper
The Three Ps
Rising wealth levels have produced a bullish outlook among Asias top private banks, with the regions market leaders particularly keen to exploit cross selling opportunities and introduce more wealthy individuals to private banking. Paul Golden speaks to a whos who of APACs top executives
Experts only
Low investment returns in traditional asset classes have continued to make alternative assets, including private equity, an attractive option for those high net worth investors seeking yields. Paul Golden investigates whether the ultra wealthy and family offices are becoming increasingly disillusioned with private equity funds because of high costs and modest returns.
Pay and privacy
While new entrants are relatively sanguine about reduced compensation packages and high flyers remain in demand, private bankings squeezed middle are feeling the effect of changes to bonus structures in their pay packets. Paul Golden finds private banks universally unwilling to discuss pay as recruiters warn of bonus drops.
Contenders or pretenders?
While Hong Kong and Singapore continue their inexorable marches towards the top of the international financial centre league, opinion is divided on the extent to which a new wave of Asian locations can become major players in the private banking space. Paul Golden reports