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The remarkable aspect of the Macquarie model for investment banking is not the amount of wealth it generates for its executives, although that is remarkable, but how its development has turned the bank into probably the world’s best-performed and fastest-growing…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican bank leader Grupo Financiero BBVA-Bancomer SA said it has launched a private bank Wednesday to provide comprehensive services for wealthy clients. “People don’t have to think about offshore institutions to get answers to their financial needs,”…
I’ve spent a lot of time in Switzerland over the years, including two semesters of college. But not much in recent times, when most of my travel and living has been in less developed countries. I did, however, log a…
UBS has sufficient demand from clients to warrant further increases in the amount it is investing in China’s domestic stock and bond markets, Leon Brittan, vice-chairman of UBS Investment Bank, said yesterday. Such additional investment by the Swiss-based bank was…
Q&A between Lindsay Williams and Peter Rigby about Money Offshore; December 2004 the rand trades at 5.60 to the US dollar – the first weeks of January 2005 the rand weakens to 6.14, strengthens temporarily, and slides once more –…
ING Industrial Fund is the latest vehicle to head offshore but it has its sights more on Europe than the United States. The plan to head overseas was revealed when the fund announced an 8.5 per cent rise in net…
The first offshore Free Trade operations in the Western Hemisphere were established in the Bahamas in 1936 by British and Canadian interests to provide management services for the investments of wealthy clients. These operations eventually became a wholly owned subsidiary…
HSBC International deals with hundreds of enquiries a week, here are some of the most frequently asked questions with some answers. 1. What exactly is offshore investing? In the financial sense, ‘offshore’ means a jurisdiction other than the one in…
As we move closer to a global economy, there is a trend among smaller, less economically developed countries to follow Switzerland’s lead to legislate measures to attract foreign investment money to their economy. As a result new financial opportunities are…
SPECIAL REPORT
The US Debt Clock has released another provocative Secret Window poster, and this time the New Money Revolution delivers its message through the simplest financial question imaginable. The headline reads: KID MONEY LOGIC Standing on…