Managers of Wealth Americas

The wealthiest (and soon-to-be-wealthiest) people in the world live here

So the countries that have the most high-net worth individuals (HNWIs) moving to them tend to be considered safe for money.

Organizations struggle to make progress with their digital transformation investments

This research surveyed 1,338 business leaders at the manager level or above at 757 organizations.

The Future of Financial Advice Must Be More Diverse

How decades of groupthink may be the bottleneck for gender, ethnic and age diversity in wealth management.

More Americans are considering cutting their ties with the US — here's why

A steady stream of American citizens have renounced their citizenship since the implementation of stricter tax rules.

How Billionaire Investors Are Protecting Their Wealth

Let’s take a closer look at the actions that these billionaires are taking, and why they are so concerned in the first place.

Bankers on the breadline: why you still feel poor on $200k

Another third are neutral. Another third are unhappy. More tellingly, 27% say their earnings don't cover their "lifestyle requirements" - even though 58% of them are earning $100k+ (£75k).

5 Topics Wealthy Clients Are Clamoring to Discuss With Advisors

Eighty-seven percent of wealthy investors in a survey had advisors, but only 16% discussed wealth planning, U.S. Trust found.

Blind Item: Which Credit Suisse MD Is Giving Us Our First Inappropriate Intern Touching Scandal Of The Summer?

Per our tipster, “Group is now telling interns to hush or face repercussions if it leaks…They are going to let him off with a HR lecture.”

Women and Millennials Are the Fastest-Growing Forces in Art Collecting, a New Study Finds

Nearly one third of wealthy women own art or are interested in buying it.

Mercer's Annual Cost of Living Survey

According to Mercer’s 24th annual Cost of Living Survey, factors like instability of housing markets, low inflation, and fluctuating prices for goods and services are impacting the cost of doing business in various cities around the world.

The Family Office Shuffle And How To Avoid Getting Less Than You Are Expecting

The family office shuffle is when a financial or investment advisory firm holds itself out as a multi-family office but either does not offer non-investment expertise or does so in a very limited and ineffectual way.

Performance the biggest hurdle to ESG investment, say US advisors

One of the biggest hurdles between interest and actual investment, according to both users and non-users of ESG products, was their perceived impact on investment performance.

New Report: Banks Increasingly Embrace Data to Reach Underserved Customers

Forward-thinking financial institutions are utilizing new data types and tools in creative ways to better serve new customers in emerging markets.

Survey: It's still tough to be a woman on Wall Street — but men don't always notice

Why are women so rare at the top of companies in the financial services industry?

What Will BlackRock Look Like in 2030?

Over the past decade, BlackRock and the elite asset management community beneted handsomely from central bank measures such as quantitative easing, with the rapid creation of money owing into listed equity markets.

US banks seen boosting payouts by $30b after stress tests

Harsher Federal Reserve stress tests this year won’t stop US banks from increasing their payouts to shareholders

Big tech stocks stand alone as other investments retreat

And despite rebounding last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted an eight-day losing streak through Thursday, the worst string of losses since the 1970s.

RBC Loses Its Luster as Investors Make TD Canada's Premium Bank

Toronto-Dominion’s returns more than doubled its Canadian competitor in the past year, eliminating the premium Royal Bank shares enjoyed for the better part of a decade.

Less Than A Quarter Of High-Net-Worth Individuals Have A Long-Term Care Plan In Place, Key Private Bank Poll Finds

More than half of advisors say convincing clients to put a plan in place is the biggest challenge

American Millennials Off Course on Wealth

Generation falls short tapping into the longest economic expansion in decades

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