Managers of Wealth Africa

Positive sentiment revealed amongst wealthy investors - RESEARCH

Strong sentiment in Hong Kong, Singapore and United Arab Emirates (UAE) that markets will improve over the next six months

Private Bank vs. Family Office by Phil Banas

The battle for the UHNW dollar is intensifying, particularly in Asia.

Managing Ethics Programs in the Workplace

Organizations can manage ethics in their workplaces by establishing an ethics management program.

Global Insight report - ABN AMRO

Eurozone finance ministers discuss Greece (again)

Investors Not Acting in Their Own Best Interest - RESEARCH

Study calls for a new definition of performance to deliver sustainable returns; one size no longer fits all

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

Is "pay for performance" losing its allure? What do you think?

UBS Global Asset Management Chronicles the Evolution of the Asset Manager

Emphasis is moving away from performance relative to benchmarks and toward investor outcomes

Dubai's financial center blossoms after management shake-up

The DIFC has recently gone through its largest management shake- up since its inception.

Worldwide investment fund assets increased to EUR 21.4 trillion in Q2 2012

Investment fund assets worldwide increased by 2.7 percent during the second quarter

Dubai is bouncing back on track, says Doha Bank Group CEO

The GCC states are rightly investing heavily into infrastructure development, modernizing the existing structure to pave way for uninterrupted economic growth in the coming years, said Mr. R Seetharaman, Group CEO, Doha Bank.

Gold seen luring wealthy

High-net-worth individuals are seeking to buy gold to protect their wealth

Investment activity to increase in MENA private equity market in next 12 months - RESEARCH

The fifth Deloitte Private Equity Confidence Survey has just been issued, gauging the views of the regional private equity community, across the Middle East.

Deloitte survey: CFOs playing bigger role in driving sustainability efforts in their organizations

Nearly one-half (49 percent) of CFOs see sustainability as key driver of financial performance

Private banks set to benefit from Qatar wealth management

Wealth transfer to the next generation provides private banks with opportunities to “deepen relationships” with their clients and “fulfil the social promise as engines of economic prosperity”, says a top Standard Chartered executiv

Oil gains on Middle East tensions not yet enough to threaten global growth - Coutts

The heightened risk of Israel acting unilaterally against the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons has driven the oil price higher.

Qatar International Businesswomen Forum slated for October

"The Forum is going to be a major media event; bigger, better and more influential than last year, and simply unmissable for businesswomen in the Gulf and beyond."

Business ethics: split the myth from the hard reality

Al Gini, a professor of business ethics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, has a different perspective. He argues that business is not inherently bad, it just happens to offer many temptations – to counter this

SunGard identifies ten asset management trends affecting the fund management industry

Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s institutional asset management business discuss the top trends affecting the fund management industry in 2012

Bahrain’s Economy Shrinks In Q2

Real GDP expanded but ongoing political unrest continues to dampen the country’s growth.

Barclays’ Azar Sees Pick-Up in Middle East Deals and Fee Income

A total of 194 M&A deals worth $29.7 billion have been announced in the Middle East and North Africa so far this year, down 5.3 percent from 219 deals worth $31.4 billion in the same period last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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