Word: esotericism
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Last year, Asia's HNWIs were worth a total of $7.6 trillion, according to Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. That large number belies popular misconceptions about the private-banking industry. To the uninitiated, private banking is an exclusive little world of secret Swiss bank accounts and starchy "wealth advisers" plotting corporate...
(3 of 3) The biggest challenge for now is not, in fact, attracting clients but finding and training enough qualified staff to service them. Asian private bankers differ from their European counterparts, according to Credit Suisse industry analysts. They tend to be relatively young (average age: 35). Yet, because of...
That grammar is at its most flowery in “Eugene,” a six-part suite Byron composed to accompany a 1961 TV show from comedian Ernie Kovacs. The music’s as esoteric as its muse, working mostly with the diminished scales that jazz players...
The real point of difference, though, is the training given to the 50-strong staff. Covering 37 esoteric topics in over 530 hours of classroom and home study, and culminating in a 212-hour written paper and an oral exam in which the therapist must correctly diagnose a guest's...
Hong Kong has seen the opening of two extravagant hotel spas - at the Four Seasons and the Landmark Mandarin Oriental - in less than a year, but the grande dame of the city's hotels, the 78-year-old Peninsula, can hardly be expected to allow younger rivals to have the...