Natixis Global Asset Management will invest in new product ranges or buy in expertise in its push to be a truly global player, according to chief executive Pierre Servant

Laurent Ramsey, CEO of Pictet Funds, believes that it was by prioritising the needs of clients that the Swiss institution expanded during the 2008 crisis and then managed to consolidate those gains

Relationship managers must re-educate themselves to cope with new regulations and commercial considerations

It is looking increasingly likely that many of the big global financial players will seek to offload some of their private banking operations, but who might step in to buy them?

By combining buy-and-hold investing with short-term opportunism, wealth managers are learning from institutional investors

Global wealth and asset managers are increasingly looking overseas for partnerships with local players, but this road to expansion can be a hazardous one

With the Retail Distribution Review set to demand changes to the platform regime in the UK, family offices in the country must adapt their business models

Nikko’s Blair Pickerell is bullish over the outlook for the Asian economy, but warns that care should be taken before piling into fixed income