Manulife Financial Corp, the giant Toronto-based insurer which has a large presence in Asia, beat analysts’ expectations in the fourth quarter of 2012, helped by “record annual sales” in its insurance and wealth businesses.
Blacktower Financial Management Group is expanding its presence in Portugal, where it has looked after expatriate clients for more than 14 years.
3D Global, a Limassol, Cyprus-based, expatriate-focused advisory firm, has set this year for a long-planned expansion into Europe and the Middle East, and has named a former Fry Group adviser to oversee the strategy.
New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald is today said to be poised to acquire Seymour Pierce, the 130-year-old London stockbroker that has been reported to be in need of new funding.
Another country has disappeared from HM Revenue & Customs’ list of QROP schemes, with the removal of all four of the schemes run by an arm of Slovakia’s Tatra bank.
In order to provide a really first rate service, it is crucial to make sure that your clients’ needs come before their wants. Prosperity CEO Andrew Cole discusses the philosophy behind his UAE-based advisory company and the need to be ruthless if you are to succeed
Schroders has launched its Luxembourg-registered Wealth Preservation fund, aimed at retail and high net worth investors.
Anyone who doesn't yet know what the Brazilian flag looks like, or who Ronaldo “Ronaldinho” de Assis Moreira is, may before long, Helen Burggraf finds, as Brazil prepares to face the world’s media spotlight over the next few years.
HM Revenue & Customs has announced that it formally recognises as a stock exchange a new joint-venture listing entity unveiled last year by Ireland and Malta.
Many people seem to leave the rational part of their brains at home when they begin to contemplate buying a property overseas, according to UK-based overseas property expert Simon Conn…
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said it has banned Joyce Hsu Ming-mei, a former licensed representative of Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd from the financial services industry “for life”, in the latest of a series of actions taken over the past two years in response to a fraud that was found to…
The board of 130-year-old London stockbroker Seymour Pierce is reported to be in urgent talks over its future, after it emerged last week that it was in trouble.
