The prospects for emerging markets look better than they have done for some time while equity valuations remain attractive. Is now the time to invest?

The new generation of techno-nerds may be guilty of speaking in jargon and much of what they pass off as new ideas are anything but, yet evidence of a generational shift in wealth management was clearly evident at the summer Fund Forum event in Berlin 

The Swiss must play to their strengths as well as develop new expertise if they are to have any chance of regaining former glories

While the French government has not always been supportive of growing its financial services sector, Paris is gradually waking up to opportunities for expansion

Asset managers have long been using Luxembourg as a base for cross-border fund distribution but the Grand Duchy has found a new lease of life as a haven for tech-based start-ups

The Spanish capital’s financial landscape has been transformed in the last five years with consolidation in the banking sector and asset managers using the city as a springboard to Latin America

With half of all Italian private wealth managed by retail banks there is huge potential for private banks to expand domestically

Increased regulatory costs have seen asset managers moving fund management operations to Malta, although global custodians tend to look elsewhere