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...bankers in Singapore, more than any place outside Switzerland?and the bank has plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia: "The [Singapore] government is the smartest on earth in terms of promoting the place as a center for private banking...
...Asian private-banking assets, is one of the top-three regional players, yet it still controls just 3-4% of the Asia market. With customers up for grabs, selling services can be about marketing the sizzle?bragging rights and a sense of privilege?as well as the steak. Thomas Meier, head of Asian private banking at Bank Julius Baer, one of Switzerland's oldest private banks, argues that his institution's classic pedigree gives it a particular edge in Asia. Headquartered in Zurich, the firm started out more than a century ago as a simple foreign-exchange office...
...opening stores, Dell is acknowledging that retailers are in a better position to address the increasing number of consumers who view computers as an entertainment purchase. Walk down the aisle of your local Best Buy, and you will see that desktop screens are as likely to display Sid Meier's Civilization as H&R Block's TaxCut. "It's not just a PC anymore. I'm connecting this box to the rest of my life," says Michael Vitelli, senior vice president of consumer electronics. "Dell made its money when the computer was a static box. People want...
...heart of the Tod's empire (which also includes 103 stores around the world) is the $60 million Richard Meier--esque white marble factory designed by Diego's wife Barbara and filled with art by Jacob Hashimoto, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. One wing is dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers?50% of whom are second-generation employees?turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...
Weddings aren't what they used to be. For one thing, nearly 26% of proposals these days are made in November and December. Today's couples are older, more established and more likely to pay for their own nuptials. In The New American Wedding (Viking; 256 pages), Diane Meier Delaney describes new ways brides and grooms are finding to tie the knot with a personal twist...