Servicing the Super-Rich: New Financial Elites and the Rise of the Private Wealth Management Retail Ecology;Fournir des services aux super nantis: Les nouvelles élites financières et l'essor de l'écologie de détail quant à la gestion de fortune privée

Regional Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 834-849

  Beaverstock, Jonathan V ^a   Hall, Sarah ^a   Wainwright, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City of London; Financial elites; Financialization; Private banking; Wealth management

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL SERVICES; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INVESTMENT;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84922687418     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.587795     Document Type: Article

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