Julius Baer
Julius Baer's AuM Rise, Boosted By Transfer Of Merrill Lynch IWM Money
15 May 2013
Julius Baer said assets under management rose 16 per cent between the end of last year and the end of April 2013, standing at SFr220 billion ($227. 9 billion), boosted by the SFr24 billion in assets acquired when the Swiss bank purchased the non-US wealth arm of Merrill Lynch International Wealth Management . Total client assets grew by 12 per cent to SFr309 billion, the Zurich-listed bank said in a statement today.
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Julius Baer Continues To Transfer Over Business Units Bought From BoA Merrill Lynch
2 April 2013
Julius Baer said today it has transferred four business units into its full control as part of the purchase in 2012 of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch non-US wealth management unit. The entities are in Uruguay, Chile, Monaco and Luxembourg . The financial advisors and client relationships of the concerned entities were transferred on April 1, 2013, whereas the client assets will be transferred in a staggered manner from Merrill Lynch to the Julius Baer platforms, in line with applicable regulations in the respective markets.
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Morgan Stanley Sells EMEA Private Wealth Business To Credit Suisse
27 March 2013
Ending months of speculation that it was spinning off parts of its non-US wealth business, Morgan Stanley said it is selling its Europe, Middle East and Africa private wealth management business in the UK, United Arab Emirates and Italy to Credit Suisse. The financial size of the transaction, expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year, was not disclosed by Morgan Stanley . Credit Suisse said the acquired business had a total of $13 billion of assets.
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Switzerland Signs FATCA Cooperation Pact With US
15 February 2013
Switzerland and the US have signed an agreement to implement the controversial FATCA tax law to make it easier for financial institutions in the Alpine state to comply with this recent US legislation. The FATCA agreement was signed in Berne yesterday by state secretary Michael Ambühl and the US ambassador Donald Beyer . During its meeting on February 13, the Swiss Federal Council had already given the financial officials approval for the agreement to be signed.
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Brazil's Safra Completes M&A Deal With Sarasin; Swiss Bank Rebranded
12 February 2013
Brazil-based banking group Safra, which last year bought a controlling stake in Switzerland’s Sarasin and now owns almost all the latter bank, yesterday announced the final stage in the transaction, producing a new entity, Bank J Safra Sarasin. The head office of the renamed entity will remain in Basel, the banks said in a statement . Joachim Straehle, chief executive of Bank Sarasin, will remain CEO of the merged bank.
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Julius Baer's Assets Under Management Rise To Record High, Buoyed By Inflows, Markets
4 February 2013
Julius Baer said today that assets under management at the end of 2012 hit a record of SFr189 billion ($296. 8 billion), a rise of 11 per cent over the previous 12 months as a result of stronger markets, SFr9 . 7 billion of net inflows and a slightly negative currency effect.
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Julius Baer Starts Transferring Acquired BoA Merrill Wealth Management Unit
1 February 2013
Julius Baer, which reports fourth-quarter results next week, today announced the formal end to the process of acquiring the non-US wealth management business of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The principal closing of the transaction, announced last August and which brought in a business with SFr11 billion (around $12 . 2 billion) of assets, marks the start of a two-year transfer and integration process, the Swiss bank said in a statement.
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Wealth Management M&A Deals Surpass $1.1 Trillion Since 2008
30 January 2013
With a spate of wealth management merger and acquisition deals enacted recently, new industry data shows that more than $1. 1 trillion of assets for high net worth clients have changed hands, for a total price of $38 . 5 billion, in M&A transactions since the financial crisis year of 2008.
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Summary Of US Banks’ Wealth Management Results For Q4
25 January 2013
Here is a summary of the results for the fourth quarter 2012 for some of the major US wealth management firms. Not all of the institutions here are strictly comparable, so the results need to be interpreted with that point in mind, and the various institutions break down their results differently subject to how they group their businesses . Some of the figures may, for various reasons, be subsequently revised.
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Bank Of America's Wealth Arm Logs Big Jump In Net Income
18 January 2013
Bank of America’s global wealth and investment management division said net income for the final three months of 2012 rose sharply to $578 million, up from $272 million in the same period of 2011, while total revenues, net of interest costs, rose to $4. 194 billion, up from $3 . 943 billion.
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Zürcher Kantonalbank Expects To Pay Big Fine To US Over Tax Evasion Case
Zürcher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to US authorities as part of a deferred prosecution agreement for its alleged role in helping US citizens evade taxes, media reports said.
Tom Burroughes
24 May 2013
Guest Opinion: An Earnings Report Every Hedge Fund Manager Should Review
Here Diane Harrison, principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, argues that the debate over fees in the hedge fund industry often focuses on the wrong topics.
Diane Harrison
20 March 2013
Q&A: Rockefeller & Co's Jimmy Chang On The Investment Environment
Here, Jimmy Chang, a senior portfolio manager and a managing director of Rockefeller & Co, discusses some issues around investing in the current environment.
Harriet Davies
4 April 2013
INTERVIEW: Regular Risk Reviews Gain Traction In The Family Office World
The period between 2008 and 2012 saw an uptick in risk reviewing business at New York’s Rothstein Kass Family Offices Group, says partner Evan Jehle.
Harriet Davies
9 April 2013
FEATURE: Twins And The Business Of Family
Building functionality into a family’s business affairs involves defining each person’s role but it’s never easy to think differently about family members who were children at the dinner table, but are now adults around the board table.
Charles Lowenhaupt
8 April 2013
Guest Opinion: Diversification In The Age Of Globalisation
Marc Odo, director of research at software and business intelligence firm Informa Investment Solutions, discusses why diversification failed during the credit crisis.
Marc Odo
25 March 2013
