Outsourcing has become a vital issue for independent financial advisers (IFAs) and an ever-growing source of revenue for discretionary wealth managers.
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Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, which oversees $2.2 trillion, is holding onto its euro- denominated assets, betting this year’s 15 percent slide in the common currency will boost exports.
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The Mexican arm of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep NV (ING) is betting that its new wealth-management division will help it to double the assets it manages on behalf of individuals as its compulsory retirement-savings business reaches maturity.
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One of the results of the intensifying IRS anti-offshore vendetta is that offshore banks increasingly restrict or even prohibit investments by U.S. clients.
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Asset management industry in Pakistan is currently passing through a challenging phase due to pressures in the operating environment impacting both the capital and money markets, it was learnt on Wednesday.
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American millionaires have seen their assets shrink by 30 percent during the economic crisis, a report said on Tuesday, with only 36 percent of them pleased with the performance of their financial advisers.
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Most wealth management companies are preparing to tighten their belts this year, but Aviva Investors North America plans to add staff and develop additional products to increase assets and sales.
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The top funds of 2008. Let’s look at all classes of funds with more than $50-million in assets and rank them by returns for the year.
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The IMA cautious managed sector was the most popular category of funds overall on the FundsNetwork platform and cash and income funds featured prominently in the lists of the most popular individual fund purchases.
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