Acknowledgments

When I started to write this book at the beginning of 2008, I did not anticipate that the upcoming four years would be the most intense, interesting, and thrilling ones I have up until now experienced in my professional life. I am not referring only to my career development but certainly also to the events that affected the financial industry and indeed much of the world during this period. The financial industry has entered a phase of radical change with the debate about the future of private banking—the very subject of this book—taking on new dimensions that hardly could have been imagined just a decade ago, or even when I started to write this book. Without a doubt, this period has provided me with much inspiration and a good deal of insight, furnishing fertile ground to bring this project to fruition.

Certainly, however, it would never have been possible to write this book during such turbulent times without the valuable contributions offered by those to whom I am grateful for their help and unflagging support. Two people in particular deserve mention for being there early on when the book was little more than an idea and sticking with it to the end. Christina Ziegler and Guido Ruoss have helped to take this book from a set of ideas to something with a carefully conceived and viable structure, providing considerable support in content management and research, going through numerous revisions, and pulling everything together whilst acting as a valuable sounding ...

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