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Wealth manager names funds CIO, while banking giant boosts family advisory arm
Wealth manager names funds CIO, while banking giant boosts family advisory arm
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has lured its new global head of sales from Deutsche Asset Management, while Maseco has selected a former Barclays man as its chief operating officer. Fidelity International has named a BlackRock veteran as its global head of consultant relations.
Ex-RBC Wealth Management man George King has joined Maseco Private Wealth as a partner.
Wealth management services are now being offered to French expats as part of Maseco’s efforts to fill “a gap in the market”.
Contrary to common perception, many wealth management firms in the UK are embracing the controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) legislation, which began its implementation on 1 July, with some carving out a niche specifically advising orphaned American clients.
The controversial US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has been introduced around the world today, marking a new era for tax planning.
Maseco Private Wealth‚ the London-based wealth manager that specialises in looking after American expatriates‚ has been awarded “B Corporation” certification‚ the first such company in the UK to receive this relatively-new accreditation.
For the last five years, Maseco Wealth has been helping the growing number of American expats who have been caught up in a US crackdown on overseas accounts…
First American expatriates were told that their bank accounts weren’t welcome. Now, it seems, Americans’ tax-deferred retirement accounts are also increasingly unwanted by US financial institutions, unless these accounts are of significant size.
Maseco, a London-based advisory firm specialising in Americans living in the UK, has poached two senior employees from currency manager The ECU Group.
Maseco Private Wealth has hired two experienced wealth managers from rival companies.
Maseco is launching a discretionary unit allowing UK & European advisers to work with US clients.