03/31/2015
Financial Industry Grows by 10,000 Jobs in February
Leading Financial Career Site, FinancialJobsWeb.com Shares Employment Trends from the Financial Jobs Industry.
Comment, Analysis & Research
03/31/2015
Do RMs lack pulling power?
The results show that only 19% of HNW clients would pursue their relationship manager if they moved to a different wealth management firm.
03/31/2015
BMO Private Bank Provides a Portrait of Affluent Floridians' Retirement
Affluent Florida residents expect to retire at an average age of 59
03/31/2015
Western banks axed 59,000 jobs, more cuts to come in Europe
European and American banks cut many jobs with the concern of profitability while lenders shut businesses to avoid complexity. Eighteen European banks cut 21,500 jobs and six American banks axed 37,500 jobs last year
03/31/2015
SEI Study: Emerging Wealthy Are Raising Investment Knowledge Threshold
In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, the world's emerging high-net-worth investors are raising the investment knowledge threshold and want their wealth managers to provide them with more guidance and information to help in making informed investment
03/31/2015
Here comes a new wave of billion-dollar hedge funds
Out with the old guard.
03/30/2015
How DIY Bond Traders Displaced Wall Street’s Hot Shot Bond Dealers
The development is not only shifting the balance of power in the world’s largest government bond market
03/30/2015
What happens when the rates rise in the US? by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Ms Yellen is going to be in no rush.
03/30/2015
Mirror, Mirror: 2015 Could Be Reverse Image of the Year 1981, Says BNY Mellon's Richard Hoey
Sees "Reverse Last Chance This Century"
03/30/2015
2014 Was A Good Year For Advisors
Revenue for the average advisor grew by 13 percent to $655,000 last year
03/30/2015
Private Equity's Next Frontier: Insurance BPO Drives Higher Valuations
Traditionally, insurance firms have relied on investment banks, equity markets, fixed income funds and hedge funds for growth capital. Increasingly, however, insurance firms are attracting capital from PE investors.
03/27/2015
JPMorgan retains number one spot in investment banking but revenues slip
The U.S. bank JPMorgan retained its crown as the top performing investment bank in 2014, although its revenues fell 6 percent, new data showed on Friday.
03/27/2015
100 new hedge funds set up in 2014 in Texas alone, but history shows only 10% reach $100m assets
So what’s good marketing?
03/27/2015
Big Money Market Fund Players Beginning to Implement Plans to Comply with Reform
Some of the big money market fund players are beginning to implement their plans to comply with reform, which becomes effective October 2016.
03/26/2015
Wall Street Titans Who Caused Financial Crisis Still Living Large Today
The April 2015 edition of Vanity Fair includes a feature article titled “Wall Street Executives from the Financial Crisis of 2008: Where Are They Now?”
03/26/2015
How Bank of America Is Changing the Image of Big Banks With “Better Money Habits”
Big banks are often seen as the bad guys that have gotten a bad reputation because of higher fees and past run-ins with government regulators
03/26/2015
Why Small Firms Are Declaring War on Big Banks
Community Institutions Are Getting Edgier to Win Back Market Share
03/26/2015
Views and perspectives relevant to emerging fund managers
Launch sizes continue to tick upward as well.
03/26/2015
New hedge funds net most cash since 2004
The largest fresh fund offerings came from a mix of new and old firms
03/26/2015
New research points to growing appetite for impact, sustainable investing
In a recent Morgan Stanley survey, 71 percent of active individual investors identified interest in sustainable investing