Sunday, 5th July 2009

 

Profiles

  1. Green Deals go into the Red

    Last year’s green deals have gone into the red, leaving the weight of frustrated ambition resting uneasily over the sector.

  2. The blogs: Reaction to Madoff

    The 150-year sentence handed to Bernard Madoff was met with cheers and applause in a Manhattan courtroom. And a trawl through the blogosphere finds little sympathy for the convicted fraudster, who yesterday received the harshest sentence for his role as architect of a fraud that cost investors $65bn (€46bn).

  3. Life after the City: Ronald Hinterkircher

    One former UBS banker put his career on ice and is pursuing a new career on the ice. Click here to read Ronald Hinterkircher's story.

  4. The best of times, the worst of times: tales from the veterans of finance

    JP Morgan Cazenove’s chairman David Mayhew said it was the introduction of the smoking ban in the UK. Deutsche Bank’s Josef Ackermann points to his time in a Düsseldorf courtroom. And Baring Asset Management strategist Andrew Cole’s believes it was the Mexican peso crisis of 1994.

  5. Europe’s star performers guide clients in turmoil

    To describe the past year as “difficult” for traders would be an understatement. The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September unleashed a tidal wave of volatility that sent traders running for cover. Trading strategies were blown apart, the hedge fund industry crumbled and it was touch and go whether the global economy would follow suit.

  6. Financier's girlfriend is given probation

    The girlfriend of former hedge fund executive Samuel Israel III was sentenced to probation Tuesday after pleading guilty in February to helping him flee last summer shortly before he was to begin serving a lengthy prison term.

  7. Barclays Wealth aims for top five position in global wealth management

    Every year, Tom Kalaris, chief executive of Barclays Wealth, urges his senior advisers to go out and read more books. So passionate does he feel about the benefits of reading that Barclays Wealth sponsors the UK’s annual Hay-on-Wye book festival, an event Kalaris attended last week.

  8. Wealth-Bulletin’s 40 Rising Stars in European Wealth Management 2009 Part 1

    Boris Collardi, chief executive of Bank Julius Baer, has again topped WealthBulletin’s list of 40 Rising Stars aged under 40 in European wealth management in 2009. Since winning last year’s poll Collardi has moved up to one of the most powerful roles in European wealth management, heading Bank Julius Baer.

  9. Wealth-Bulletin’s 40 Rising Stars in European Wealth Management 2009 Part 2

    The Rising Stars List – in alphabetical order

  10. Wealth Bulletin’s Rising Stars in European Wealth Management 2009

    After last year’s hugely successful Rising Stars in European Wealth Management Survey, Wealth Bulletin is collecting nominations for its 2009 list.

Brummel

Relocation, relocation, relocation

Banks have never been shy of firing staff at the merest whiff of a downturn. First the fat, then the muscle and finally the bone. In the past, cuts have been so deep that firms have found it hard to benefit when the markets rebounded, paying over the odds to restaff at speed. Such wild oscillations in staffing numbers are known as “doing a Merrill”.

Rich Monitor

$95 Million Trump House Could Be Sold–Again

Donald Trump set a record when he sold a house for $95 million last year. It was, he proudly pointed out, the largest amount paid in the U.S. for a single-family home.

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