Personal Finance

People living in Switzerland are by far the wealthiest of those in any major economy around the world, and they are getting richer, according to the latest Global Wealth Report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute.
"In terms of personal wealth, our estimates show that, on average, the Swiss are eleven times wealthier than the average world citizen. They are approximately twice as wealthy as citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, almost three times as wealthy as Germans and 25 times better off than the average Chinese citizen," says Credit Suisse’s report.

The Swiss Bankers Association announced in a statement the nex list of accounts hold assets of about eight million Swiss francs (€7.4 million). The first step was in December 2015, when the association published a list of more than 2,600 accounts of individuals or companies without any movements on their Swiss bank accounts for the past 60 years.

Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, called on governments and businesses to do more to promote the same economic opportunities for men and women and to fight discrimination that interferes with those goals.

The canton of Schwyz can be defined canton of billionaires. According to the latest statistics cantonal tax, year 2013, the ultra-rich residents are 8.976 and together have 77,5 billion francs, 89,9% of the total taxable assets.

«Je m’attends à une normalisation des taux d’intérêt, mais plus lente que beaucoup ne l’espèrent. Les taux longs grimperont à 2-3% d’ici cinq à dix ans», déclare François-Serge Lhabitant, directeur général et responsable de la stratégie de Kedge Capital, mercredi à Zurich. Ce gérant d’actifs place les capitaux de la famille Ernesto Bertarelli dans les hedge funds depuis 2001 et fait partie de Waypoint Capital. Kedge gère 4 milliards de dollars, dont 80% proviennent de la famille et 20% d’investisseurs extérieurs.

François Degeorge, professor at USI since 2003 and current director of the Institute of Finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, is the new Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute and succeeds Prof. Claudio Loderer, University of Bern.

Britain’s trade in services with the European Union is likely to fall by 60% if the United Kingdom leaves the European single market, according to a new report by the country’s leading economic think tank. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says trade in services will slump by almost two-thirds, even if Britain secures a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the EU after Brexit.

Switzerland, Germany and Austria confirmed at the top of the rankings, according to Young Workers Index, research carried out by PwC, which since 2006 analyzes the level of employment, schooling and vocational training of young people between 15 and 24 years of the 35 OECD countries.

In general, Europe is at the top of the rankings, as the leading trio is followed by Iceland, Norway and Denmark. Israel, Luxembourg and Germany have instead registered the best progress in the period 2006-2015, whereas Southern Europe, particularly Italy, Spain and Greece, are earnestly striving to recover after the financial crisis.