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...That doesn't mean that legions of rich Europeans are suddenly closing their Swiss accounts and moving their money to Singapore. After Switzerland implemented the withholding tax, "very little happened in terms of asset migration," says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, a London-based consultancy to the wealth-management industry. "The big gain for Singapore is not to take assets away from Europe," he says. "The big gain is to attract assets from within its own region. And [Singapore] is doing that tremendously." For now, though, it still has a long way to go before it can claim...
...most of them working in Hong Kong and Singapore. "By 2015, we expect the Asia-Pacific market to be bigger than the European market," says Kathryn Shih, the Hong Kong-based head of UBS's wealth-management operation in Asia Pacific. "The opportunities are huge." Says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, a London-based consultancy to the wealth-management industry: "Asia Pacific is where most private banks are placing their bets right...
...nomination for re-election at the state Democratic convention. Hillary's handlers had the good sense to plant Bill in the audience and not onstage until after she had finished the speech in which she hailed him as "an inspiration and a mentor and a friend and a partner." But for at least 15 minutes after she and every other politician had left, he lingered at the microphones, answering reporters' questions, oblivious to aides trying to scoot...
When I began training last year for my first marathon, my running partner Dave Freedholm, an experienced amateur distance runner, impressed on me the need to vigilantly avoid dehydration. His drink of choice was Accelerade. Like Gatorade, the original sports drink, it's packed with sugars and sodium to provide energy and replace the electrolytes depleted in sweat. But it also contains protein, which he said would help my muscles repair themselves more quickly after the punishing training runs he took...
...crippling malaria rate. Marathon concluded that protecting only its employees and contractors wouldn't be enough. Because mosquitoes will bite anybody and Marathon expects the island facility to be productive for 40 years or more, the company adopted a more ambitious goal: it is working with its business partner Noble Energy, nonprofit organizations and the Equatoguinean government to stop transmission of the disease on the island within five years...