The International Private Banking Study 2007

This study is the latest edition of the International Private Banking Study pub-lished in 2005 and 2003. In total 253 financial institutions focusing on priv-ate banking were analyzed. Data covers the period from 1990 to 2006. Thesample includes banks from Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,Liechtenstein, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, the UK and the US. The in-tention is to compare relative strengths and competitiveness of banks over allcountries by measuring various key figures. The latter include key operation-al performance indicators (i.e. profitability, efficiency and growth) and clientinvestment performance indicators. Additionally, the interdependencies bet-ween the various indicators are examined.