GenevaLunch » finance http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 06:53:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Irish, Swiss say no dividends taxes on pensionshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/irish-swiss-say-no-dividends-taxes-on-pensions/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/irish-swiss-say-no-dividends-taxes-on-pensions/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 21:10:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70473 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Ireland and Switzerland have agreed to a double taxation treaty, subject to the agreement of both countries’ parliaments, that will limit withholding tax to no more than 15 percent on gross dividend amounts. A crucial detail welcomed by the cantons and business associations, according to Bern, is that “there will be no [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/irish-swiss-say-no-dividends-taxes-on-pensions/feed/ 0 World bank gets HIV/Aids specialist as new headhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/world-bank-gets-hivaids-specialist-as-new-head/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/world-bank-gets-hivaids-specialist-as-new-head/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:49:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69078 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Dr Jim Yong Kim, the US candidate for president of the World Bank has been named to the post. He is currently president of Dartmouth College in the US and is well-known for his role in fighting HIV/Aids in developing countries. He takes up the job 1 July, following the resignation of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/world-bank-gets-hivaids-specialist-as-new-head/feed/ 0 Best deals in town: insurance, finance, food and morehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:19:21 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=66141 GenevaLunch.com Comparis.ch is a popular Swiss internet comparison service and it’s available in English. Their latest: weekly food, wine and beer deals at major supermarkets are listed in the Special offers section. A free Smartshopper application is available for your smartphone. Comparis has long been known for its comparisons of insurances rates for health, home, cars [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/feed/ 0 Oil imports, earthquake push Japan into 1st trade deficit in 32 yearshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oil-imports-earthquake-push-japan-into-1st-trade-deficit-in-32-years/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oil-imports-earthquake-push-japan-into-1st-trade-deficit-in-32-years/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:58:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65519 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Japan has announced its first trade deficit since 1980, Y2.49tn ($32bn), with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda saying it will take until 2014 for a turn-around. Analysts, according to the financial press, are gloomier about Japan’s short- to mid-term prospects for avoiding a current account surplus. The savings rate in the country has been [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oil-imports-earthquake-push-japan-into-1st-trade-deficit-in-32-years/feed/ 0 Swiss central bank shows Q3 profit of CHF5.8b despite high franchttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/swiss-central-bank-shows-q3-profit-of-chf5-8b-despite-high-franc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/swiss-central-bank-shows-q3-profit-of-chf5-8b-despite-high-franc/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:52:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63005 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH / BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss National Bank is showing a consolidated profit of CHF5.8 billion for the first nine months of the year, thanks primarily to gold prices. The profit was achieved despite an over-valued Swiss franc that caused losses of CHF4.7 billion. Other currency positions resulted in gains of CHF5 billion, giving [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/swiss-central-bank-shows-q3-profit-of-chf5-8b-despite-high-franc/feed/ 1 Swiss toughen sanctions against Iranhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/swiss-toughen-sanctions-against-iran/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/swiss-toughen-sanctions-against-iran/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:52:45 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52589 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government is increasing sanctions against Iran to the same level as those put in place by its main commercial partners, the government said Wednesday morning 19 January. The tougher measures were taken to ensure that Switzerland is not used by Iran to get around the stricter sanctions put in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/swiss-toughen-sanctions-against-iran/feed/ 0 Goldman Sachs London fined for poor disclosurehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/goldman-sachs-london-fined-for-poor-disclosure/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/goldman-sachs-london-fined-for-poor-disclosure/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:30:37 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=46834 GenevaLunch.com The London unit of Goldman Sachs has been fined £17.5 million for failing to disclose that it was under investigation for fraud in the USA by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the marketing of certain collateralized debt obligations. The UK’s financial services regulator, FSA, fined the firm for controls weaknesses leading to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/goldman-sachs-london-fined-for-poor-disclosure/feed/ 0 Swiss gov’t argues for 6.2% single rate VAT (TVA)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/24/swiss-govt-argues-for-6-2-single-rate-vat-tva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/24/swiss-govt-argues-for-6-2-single-rate-vat-tva/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:47:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44053 GenevaLunch.com Federal budget for 2011 gets government approval Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The Swiss Federal Council wants to see a single value-added tax (VAT, called TVA in French) rate of 6.2 percent, it said Thursday 24 June. An earlier plan by the ruling council for a single rate VAT, a project dear to Hans-Rudolf Merz, finance [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/24/swiss-govt-argues-for-6-2-single-rate-vat-tva/feed/ 0 Lausanne and Tepper universities set up wealth mgmt. MBAhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/05/lausanne-and-tepper-universities-set-up-wealth-mgmt-mba/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/05/lausanne-and-tepper-universities-set-up-wealth-mgmt-mba/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 13:51:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=41431 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The University of Lausanne’s Faculty of Business and Economics, the HEC in Lausanne and the Swiss Finance Institute are joining with the Tepper Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, to offer a dual-degree executive MBA in asset and wealth management. The programme starts in 2011 and offers an EMBA from [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/05/lausanne-and-tepper-universities-set-up-wealth-mgmt-mba/feed/ 0 Switzerland names Ambuehl to key int’l tax posthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/13/switzerland-names-ambuehl-to-key-intl-tax-post/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/13/switzerland-names-ambuehl-to-key-intl-tax-post/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:00:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=35248 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Michael Ambuehl has been named Switzerland’s State Secretary for International Financial and Tax Matters, head of a new secretariat within the Federal Finance Department. Ambuehl is probably best known as the man who negotiated the UBS arrangement with the United States Justice Department in early 2009. The new secretariat “will serve [...]

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