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Emerging markets drive investor optimism
A 46% plunge in the value of world ... Only 22% of the fund managers viewed equities ... He said: "Fund managers remain bearish overall towards ... HSBC's results chimed with other recent indicators that ... Three-quarters predicted corporate earnings will deteriorate next year....
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Safe havens face crackdown
Offshore financial centres are braced for a mauling ... They can argue that poor onshore bank governance ... German finance minister Peer Steinbrück has called for ... He alleges local investment conditions have encouraged German ... following probes into accounts held in neighbouring Liechenstein....
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HSBC Asset Management replaces emerging markets chief
Christian Deseglise, the high-profile head of emerging markets ... Deseglise, who will be succeeded by Sylvia Coutinho, ... His role did not involve frontline portfolio management ... Coutinho, a former Citigroup executive who joined HSBC ... It has profited from a period of strong...
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Share slump drags Citigroup from top 15
Citigroup, the biggest bank in the world by ... Citigroup's share price fell to $5.00 (€3.98) in ... On November 4, Citigroup's shares were trading at ... Citigroup had been the world's biggest bank by ... British bank HSBC is now ranked third in ... The table is dominated by Chinese banks, with...
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HSBC launches private bank in Russia
British bank HSBC is defying the economic gloom ... John Nicholls, deputy chief executive of HSBC Russia, ... Speaking at the annual Russo-British Chamber of Commerce ... "We will be opening retail branches in Moscow ... The launch of HSBC's private baking in operation...
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HSBC only British bank left in world top 30
Only one UK bank is ranked inside the ... HSBC is the last UK bank left inside ... HSBC is ranked third in the world with ... Shares in many UK banks collapsed this morning, ... Barclays is the second most valuable UK bank, ... Responding to a question at the Merrill Lynch ... In a statement to the stock exchange, RBS...
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HSBC Private Bank hires relationship manager from Barclays Wealth
HSBC Private Bank in Manchester has hired Atiyah ... Atiyah, who specialises in investment and portfolio management,...
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UBS shares rise on HSBC merger talks
HSBC is reportedly considering bidding for embattled Swiss ... The rumour mill is churning that the global ... UBS' share price jumped 4.56% to SFr21.00 at ... This is not the first time speculation over ... Last week the bank's share price was influenced ... UBS said in its most recent quarterly report...
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HSBC Private Bank trims US operations in cost-cutting drive
HSBC Private Bank has closed its Boston, Washington, ... Moreover, the firm has let go Peter Fudge,...
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A weekend on Wall Street: the steal of the century
Has John Thain pulled off the deal of ... In agreeing to sell Merrill Lynch into the ... Unlike Richard Fuld, the hubristic chief executive of ... Shares in Merrill Lynch plunged 36% last week, ... As hopes rapidly faded over a bail-out for ... But where Thain has really earned his payoff...
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HSBC reshuffles multi-manager team
HSBC Global Asset Management has named a new ... Guy Morrell, head of the unit's real estate ... Morrell replaces James Hughes, who is relocating to ... The changes comes on the back of several ... Wagner Araujo, the head of HSBC Multimanager in ... Both Morrell and Hughes report to Joanna Munro,...
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Fyshe woos HSBC private banking clients
Fyshe Horton Finney, one of the UK’s oldest ... As an introductory offer, the firm, which has ... The move comes after the UK bank declared...
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HSBC Global Asset Management launches Frontiers Fund
HSBC Global Asset Management has unveiled its HSBC ... The fund, exclusively focused on emerging markets, will ... The fund first launched in February and has...
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Kleinwort Benson hires new regional head
Kleinwort Benson, the UK private bank, has hired ... Colin Rowe joins the bank after a 16-year ... Rowe will have responsibility for managing Kleinwort Benson’s...
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HSBC to launch Russian private banking operations
The Russian subsidiary of HSBC is setting up ... The office, scheduled to be launched in the ... Until recently, Moscow HSBC has been represented on ... The Russian private banking market is currently growing...
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HSBC sees slowdown in Taiwan wealth management market
Taiwan's wealth management market, Asia's third largest, should ... The soft forecast in the increasingly competitive market ... "The overall investment climate does not look positive," ... But some rivals said the slower forecast for...
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HSBC Private Bank launches in Scotland
HSBC Private Bank officially launched last week in ... HSBC PB, which is primarily targeting individuals with ... Scotland is seen as fertile territory for private ... HSBC PB launches into a Scottish market where,...
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HSBC hires Rothschild Trust CEO
HSBC private bank has hired the former global ... Stephen Skelly joins HSBC's private banking office in ... Skelly will be responsible for HSBC private bank’s ... Before Rothschild he was head of wealth structuring...
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Asia growth offsets bigger writedowns at HSBC
HSBC has been forced to take a larger ... Writedowns in the global banking and markets division ... The writedown figures came in an interim results ... However, it did say that pre-tax profits from ... HSBC’s sub-prime writedown at $500m was half the ... The bad news in the global banking and...
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HSBC helped by wealth business
HSBC's private banking business is proving a solid ... The bank said in the statement that its ... In an interim results statement, the bank said: ... The group's first quarter writedowns were half the ... The bad news in the global banking and ... The bank said its emerging markets business, particularly...
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