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Credit Suisse launches gay wealth initiative, others tone down efforts
Credit Suisse has launched a new initiative to ... The Swiss wealth manager said it plans to ... But few banks offer specific gay services. UBS ... Merrill Lynch launched a gay initiative three years ... Two years ago Ivan Massow, one of the ... He sold the fifteen-year old business to London...
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Europe's bank rout may ease
Despite the threat of giant writedowns, some fund ... The argument goes something like this: Falling oil ... Moreover, with commodities no longer looking like a ... But the backdrop to this scenario is second-quarter ... Already, Switzerland's UBS has lost more than half ... Still, some analysts liken the bargain-basement valuations of...
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Merrills appoints four wealth specialists in Europe
Merrill Lynch's wealth management arm has strengthened its ... Lucia Granda, with eleven years experience at Merrills, ... She will be based in Madrid and will ... Alberto Spagnola, with 12 years asset management experience, ... Regis Molowny joins as head of wealth structuring...
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UBS hires Merrill analyst as head of bank research
Swiss bank UBS has recruited John-Paul Crutchley, a ... Crutchley, who will join in early October, will ... He replaces Gert van Rooyen, who has transferred ... Crutchley was a director in Merrill Lynch’s banks ... He joined Merrill Lynch eight years ago and ... UBS has also hired Omar Fall, a banks...
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Fortis loses three senior bankers to Merrill wealth arm
Three senior relationship managers have left the private ... Merrill also hired a fourth adviser from Bank ... In a presentation to investors recently, Chris Vogelzang, ... Fortis did not respond to requests for comment. ... The three Fortis bankers hired by Merrill are ... The quartert will make a new team based...
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Goldman pips Merrill to European M&A crown
Goldman Sachs has taken the top spot for ... Just $1.3bn (€834m) in deal credits separated the ... Goldman Sachs is working on several of the ... The bank is also the top global adviser ... Also making it into the global top 10 ... UBS, which was the top bank for European ... Deutsche Bank has been among the biggest winners...
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Merrill Lynch top wealth veteran swaps London for Dubai
Merrill Lynch's wealth unit is relocating Amir Sadr, ... Amir Sadr has worked at the bank since ... In May he became overall head of the ... In an internal Merrill memo, Eva Castillo, head ... Sadr will report to Eva Castillo and will ... Also Mark Nixon, currently part of the Middle...
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HNWIs still love luxury despite downturn
High net worth individuals are still chasing luxury ... The Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index, ... Despite these significant price increases, various luxury segments ... The 12th annual World Wealth Report, published yesterday, ... Private jets, custom yachts, high-end automobiles and other...
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Merrill Lynch hires private bankers
Merrill Lynch's wealth management unit has expanded its ... Serkan Gur joins from Morgan Stanley as a ... Inna Zhuranskaya and Alexander Vlassov transfer from the ... Irina Klivanskaya transfers from the investment bank as ... All six will be based in London and...
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Managers flee UK stocks
Asset managers’ allocation to UK equities has slumped ... The survey, which tracks the views of 204 ... Over half of investors' polled found sterling to ... The negative sentiment on the UK mirrors a ... The survey highlighted a move away from equities ... Karen Olney, chief European equities analyst strategist at...
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Merrill retains top ranking in Barron’s ‘Top 100 Women Financial Advisers’ list
Merrill Lynch led all financial services firms on ... Among the top 10, and returning to the ... "We are very proud that Barron's has recognised...
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Merrill private client unit hires portfolio services provider in Australia
Merrill Lynch Equities Australia has appointed portfolio administration ... Praemium’s signature online service V-Wrap will provide the ... Tom Alexy, Merrill Lynch Australia market director and ... “This partnership with Praemium will provide our clients ... Praemium’s V-Wrap service currently administers more than $28bn...
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GLG Partners taps Merrill portfolio manager for London office
GLG Partners has declared that Warren Touwen is ... Warren will work alongside Simon Savage and Peter ... Warren joins GLG from Merrill Lynch where he ... Warren also designed and implemented Merrill’s first fully...
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Merrill hires senior manager from Lombard Odier for Swiss unit
Merrill Lynch has taken on a new head ... Pascal Bachy will report to Patrizio Merciai, head ... Bachy has 16 years experience in the private...
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Say-on-pay doesn't play on Wall Street
Blunders and bad luck have cost shareholders of ... At Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch and ... In contrast, shareholder backing of nonbinding say-on-pay proposals ... "The momentum for say-on-pay at financial companies has ... Explanations for the laissez-faire attitude toward executive compensation...
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Ivy League star Clapacs tackles change in Europe
The introduction of the markets in financial instruments ... On November 17 1984, Brent Clapacs represented Harvard ... Some 25 years on, however, Clapacs, now the ... Clapacs said: “This is undoubtedly an extraordinarily exciting ... Only one new trading system – Chi-X, the...
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Fund managers bearish on Europe
More investors are pessimistic about equity markets in ... When asked which regions they would be most ... When a fund manager overweights or underweights a ... Investors were also negative on the prospects for ... Separately, investors were marginally more optimistic about financials....
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Merrill Lynch names new head for New York wealth unit
Merrill Lynch has named Carlos Valle as the ... Valle replaces Ricardo Morean, who was removed from ... Valle, who joined Merrill in 1989 with the...
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Merrill Lynch looks to wealth unit for driving overall profit
Merrill Lynch, one of the world's leaders in ... "We'll continue to increase it," Nelson Chai, Merrill's ... He said the company is "pretty well positioned" ... He also said the company is trying to...
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Merrill CEO presents new leadership team
After a string of high-profile hires and departures, ... The 10-person group includes a mix of new ... "As I have emphasised over the last five ... Two Merrill veterans, Andrea Orcel and Jason Brand, ... The firm's two risk co-heads aren't on the ... Mr. Thain arrived at Merrill Lynch in December...
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