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"It was a bit of a shock as one day I was in robes at a Tibetan monastery and the next I was in a suit at Coutts, " says Elgood.

"I had the impression [Coutts] was a bit stuffy and old fashioned but I was pleasantly surprised, " he says.

By bringing out the term of New Woman, Chapter four targets at Bertha Coutts' plight and reclaims her role as a spokesperson of New Woman.

This year Coutts joined the fray with its "assets and responsibilities" course.

One of the main areas of focus of the Coutts' programme is philanthropy.

RBS also has high expectations for private banking, citing the history and quality of its Coutts brand.

Coutts has switched sides to the Swiss along with a large part of the Kiwi crew.

Fortunately, Bob Coutts, head of Lockheed's electronics division, is happy to appraise his boss's management credentials.

In a similar vein, UK private bank Coutts told its clients in the past week that U. S. profit margins may have reached their peak.

Coutts is about to launch a similar product for its high-net-worth clients, called the Special Opportunities Fund.

Coutts, along with some other wealth managers, assigns its advisers to groups of clients with similar needs and objectives.

Swiss billionaire Ernesto Berterelli is paying Coutts and five other Kiwis millions of dollars to race against their former teammates.

The two have also formed a Facebook group with fellow Coutts graduates and keep in regular contact.

Coutts, meanwhile, has set up a "solution" specifically for those who have considerable wealth but not much money.

Coutts says it plans to roll out the scheme across all of its offices.

Coutts, which is running its second next generation course this summer, is planning to incorporate more on asset allocation and investment.

Peregrine Banbury, a client group head at Coutts & Co, the private bank, says the phenomenon is more common than one might think.

She previously worked for RBS Coutts' private bank joint-venture with Bank of China in Beijing and Shanghai.

Coutts also helps clients by creating a portfolio of charities that might suit their objectives.

"If the unrest continues we could see people re-evaluate existing commitments, " said James Fleming, of RBS Coutts.

Coutts proposed a second chance and the opportunity to prove him self again.

With a 14 per cent stake in Probability, he has been allocated to Coutts's "entrepreneurs" group.

Coutts notes that periods of increasing inflation make investors nervous about the future.

The family had banked with Coutts for generations.

Coutts has attracted new clients as a result of the course it launched last year.

Coutts, for example, is involved with setting up structures such as family charitable trusts, and then managing the money in them.