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Transaction-based fees hurt private banking clients

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific head of private banking Francesco de Ferrari has criticised the industry's commonplace transaction-based fee structures for not being in clients' best interests. He told Financial Standard that charging clients when they ...

UBS Australia to launch family office service

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
UBS Australia is launching a new Global Family Office (GFO) business to service the nation's wealthiest and most influential families. The business brings together the investment banking and wealth management arms of the Swiss financial services company ...

Speakers confirmed for Family Office Forum

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
Leading economists and private banking specialists will be among the keynote speakers at this month's Family Office Forum in Melbourne. The event, which has been organised by the Centre for Investor Education (CIE), will take place from Monday 25 - ...

EWM Group launches new philanthropy division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
Queensland-based multi-family office EWM Group has established a new philanthropic division to cater for the ever-increasing giving needs of Australian high net worth clients. The group said it is preparing for "an historic transfer" of wealth to the ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... help fund the establishment of The Resilient Families preservation service, attracted investment from individual, family office and institutional investors. NRMA Motoring & Services and Australian Ethical Investments were among the key investors. The ...

Peak6 reopens to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
Investment from Australian institutions has helped US hedge fund manager Peak6 achieve one of the fastest growing launches in recent times. The group's Achievement fund launched in September 2012 and has already grown to US$1.55 billion in funds under ...

Financial services to make 100,000 millionaires by 2017

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... minority in what is a very equal economy," he finished. Click here to read more articles about the high net worth and family office sector.

Wealthy parents fear kids can't handle family fortune

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... Determining at what age to involve children in financial discussions is central decision for the ultra-wealthy and many family office and private wealth advisers have specialists in managing inter-generational wealth. The study, part of U.S. Trust's ...

Prime Value AM gets SIV approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... said he believed investors looking to take advantage of the SIV would be attracted to the company's origins as a family office and its experience in dealing with ultra-high net worth investors. "Many international investors, particularly in Asia, favour ...

Fraud and cybercrime biggest non-investment risks to family offices

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... Wealth Alliance's 2012 Inaugural Security Study. For the study - which was conducted in two parts -- the US-based family office research and resource provider asked 35 single-family offices to answer a set of security questions. Then a further 24 firms ...