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About Barclays Wealth
Barclays Wealth is a leading global wealth manager, and the UK’s
largest, with total client assets of £145bn, as at 31 December 2008. With
offices in 25 countries, Barclays Wealth serves affluent, high net worth and
intermediary clients worldwide, providing international and private banking,
investment management, fiduciary services, and brokerage.
Barclays Group is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 155,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for over 48 million customers and clients worldwide.
For further information about Barclays Wealth, please visit our website www.barclayswealth.com
Sponsors
Bedell Group is a leading offshore service provider of legal and fiduciary services with a network of offices in key financial centres, Jersey, Guernsey, London, Dublin and Geneva.
Working with high net worth individuals, world class institutions, corporate clients and intermediaries, we offer a broad range of specialist Channel Islands legal advice, offshore and onshore fiduciary and administration services with a client focused approach.
Bircham Dyson Bell's Private Wealth Group is one of the largest in the UK, comprising 16 partners and over 60 people in all. The firm's experts in taxation, trusts, estate planning and succession law work in close conjunction with colleagues specialising in family law, residential property, immigration, charities, litigation and employment, ensuring that our clients can call upon a wide range of advice when needed. The Group has an established international reputation, particularly in continental Europe, the Middle East and North America, acting for a number of prominent families and their offshore trustees.
Black Brick is a complete London and South East residential property search and acquisition service, acting for private individuals, corporate clients and property investors. Founded by Managing Director, Camilla Dell in January 2007, Black Brick is a truly independent property consultancy company which specializes in dealing with and providing high quality value added services to private banks, their clients and the corporate market. Our mission is to become the leading search and acquisition property services consultancy in the UK and create a brand that appeals to both UK and international clients through exceptional service, client focus, market expertise and innovative solutions.
Established in 1928, Conyers Dill & Pearman pioneered the concept of multi-jurisdictional offshore law and has earned clients' trust, loyalty and respect by consistently providing responsive, timely and thorough advice on all aspects of offshore corporate, company and commercial law, commercial litigation and private client matters.
The Firm advises on the laws Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Mauritius from those islands and from Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Moscow and Singapore. The Firm has become renowned for quality, dispassionate advice and has garnered a reputation as being the offshore law firm of choice.
The business of Frank Hirth plc has been established for over 30 years. Originally founded as a firm of Chartered Accountants in 1975 , the Company has grown significantly, developing its practice to the point of being one of the largest and most well respected in the field of international tax. We aim to provide expert professional advice and compliance services to our clients, based on technical excellence and integrity.
Jersey Finance represents the Island’s Finance Industry and promotes Jersey as an International Finance Centre of excellence. The organisation’s primary objective is to communicate the many factors that make Jersey a leading International Finance Centre, including the depth and breadth of experience and expertise of its practitioners; its political, economic and fiscal stability; and its high level of regulation and security. Part Industry and part Government funded, Jersey Finance has a membership of more than 170 Industry Members, comprising the majority of the Island’s financial institutions. It represents all of the Industry’s main sectors including Private Client/Wealth Management, investment, banking, funds and trust services. For more information about the many products and services provided by the organisations and practitioners in the Island, please visit www.jerseyfinance.je
IFM Group is an independent company dedicated to the highest standards of fiduciary care. We supply a wide variety of services, from traditional private client and structuring for corporate clients through a variety of vehicles to bespoke investment monitoring and the provision of international trade services. Our “can do” attitude and commitment to excellence set us apart from other players, generating a culture of integrity, efficiency and respect within the Group. With offices in Jersey, Switzerland, South Africa and New Zealand together with representative offices in Ireland and the UK. IFM Group can provide access to genuine cross-border local knowledge through practical tailored and timely delivery of solutions.
RBC Wealth Management is RBC's international wealth management arm and is dedicated to providing tailored solutions to meet the international financial needs of high net worth clients and their families. With offices in over 25 key financial centres around the world, our aim is to earn the right to become our clients' first choice by building relationships, delivering expertise and advice, and offering choice. As a global professional trustee, we have earned an international reputation for excellence. Many of our 750 dedicated trust personnel hold legal or accounting designations and specialist credentials in the fields of tax and estate planning. Operating in established trust jurisdictions, they work closely with professional advisors to deliver customised client solutions.
Smith & Williamson is a leading independent UK professional and financial services group which provides a range of financial, taxation and investment management services to private clients as well as to professional practices and mid to large corporates. We have been helping to manage the financial affairs of private clients, many of whom are internationally based, together with their family and business interests, since our foundation in 1881. We have an established family office department and our clients include prominent landowners and families whom we have advised for many years, as well as entrepreneurs and business owners. Our range of high net worth client services includes, tax, trust and financial advisory services, investment management, private banking, personal financial planning and pensions advice. We pride ourselves on recognising the importance of offering exceptional service and our aim is to demonstrate depth in technical expertise and provide a dedicated all-round advice.
Vestra Wealth is a partnership set up by experienced industry professionals to provide an exceptional wealth management service to private clients, companies, charities, trusts and financial intermediaries.
Key to our approach is uncompromised independence, a thorough and well-informed investment process and transparent charging.
We treat all clients as individuals. Our investment solutions are designed around the needs of the client, rather than being product-driven.
We have access to the resources and expertise of leading global investment firms, while retaining the flexibility to source niche opportunities to suit each of our clients' needs.
In summary, Vestra Wealth is committed to an approach that puts the client first.
