Companies

Saltus Asset Management has appointed Andrew Fleming as chairman. 

Tilney Smith & Williamson has appointed Chris Grigg as chair.

GAM Holding reported an underlying pre-tax profit of CHF 0.8 million for the first half of 2021.

HMRC has shut down its specialist unit focused on Family Investment Companies (FICs) after it found no correlation between usage and non-compliant behaviours.

Asset Risk Consultants (ARC) has published its Q2 2021 Private Client Indices (PCI) estimates, which are considerably more positive than those of Q1.

Irwin Mitchell’s wealth management arm has appointed David Austin as a non executive director (NED).

Standard Chartered’s consumer, private and banking business increased its pre-tax profits significantly in H1 2021.

Revenues, profits and client assets within the wealth component of HSBC’s Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) division all rebounded strongly during the first half of 2021 as the world started to recover from the impact of Covid-19.

Cazenove Capital (Cazenove) is opening a new office at 2 St Peter’s Square, Manchester to service its growing client base in the North West.

Coutts has appointed Paul Bagatelas as head of international.