02/11/2014
At the start of this month, as EM concerns spilled over into global equities and risk assets, capital preservation became the primary driver of financial market moves as opposed to relative value – Or fear rather than greed.
02/11/2014
There was a big sigh of relief on Friday from tax professionals involved in completing tax returns for individuals, having worked long into the January evenings and weekends.
02/11/2014
Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, virus attacks and stalking by e-mail.
02/11/2014
Ethical advisors to the Church of England have warned that the CofE's investment portfolio "will never be pure", and advised that some "ethical ambiguity" is necessary for the benefits that investment brings to the organisation.
02/10/2014
The European Central Bank (ECB) has seen its plan to buy Eurozone periphery government bonds questioned by Germany's highest courts.
02/10/2014
Value, in four charts by Tim Price
Fed and ECB policies aim to reassure financial market participants rather than keeping them guessing. In the “good old days”, before quantitative easing, forward guidance and zero real interest rates, investors, asset managers, traders and ban
02/10/2014
Are we entering the third phase of the Great Financial Crisis?
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard answers your questions about the global economy amid tightening in the US and China, ECB inaction and emerging markets turmoil
02/10/2014
Bank of Italy Gov. Ignazio Visco on Saturday floated the idea of a national bad bank to help lenders shed troubled assets and boost new loans to Italian companies
02/10/2014
“Changing the perception of Pakistan in the eyes of international investors will be a gradual process. Pakistani corporate (entities) have shown one of the highest average returns on equity (ROE) across emerging and frontier markets in the last 10 y
02/10/2014
Government adviser Davide Serra says this year’s stress tests by European authorities are likely to find fresh problems in the eurozone banks.
02/10/2014
Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.
02/10/2014
Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds
02/10/2014
London's high-end retailers enjoyed a boom in spending by Chinese customers over the first weekend of February as tourists flocked to the capital for Chinese New Year, according to the latest figures from payments firm WorldPay.
02/10/2014
The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.
02/10/2014
We suspect that new Fed chairman Janet Yellen would not want to significantly change policy at her first meeting in March.
02/10/2014
REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies
02/10/2014
"Generals always fight the last war."
02/07/2014
Following the tragic death of an intern in Bank of America’s London unit, banks have announced new guidelines that will prevent senior executives from working their junior employees literally to death.
02/07/2014
Credit Suisse Group AG has been affected by the slump in emerging markets this year as conditions worsened
02/06/2014
Top hedge fund bets on Danish debt crisis
Denmark became Scandinavia's weakest economy after a housing bubble that burst in 2008