01/27/2014
So farewell then, forward guidance. We barely knew you. We were never fans of this policy and said as much. Here, for example, is what we wrote in ‘The Spectator’ last October:
01/27/2014
It was like the 1980s and the fictional world of Gordon Gekko all over again.
01/27/2014
Simplify executive pay, says Aberdeen chief
Martin Gilbert believes chief executives and other senior directors should be given salaries, with performance bonuses only if appropriate, to align interests with investors
01/27/2014
Companies shunned by high street lenders have somewhere new to turn, Nicola Horlick tells Patrick Hosking
01/27/2014
Italian households tend to have more assets and fewer debts than their euro-zone counterparts.
01/27/2014
Advisers need to understand distinctions between women and men investors
01/25/2014
European banks have a combined capital shortfall of about 84 billion euros ($115 billion), German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported, citing a new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
01/24/2014
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.
01/24/2014
Last week a group of free-thinkers gathered in Guernsey with the simple brief of making the island the best place to live on the earth.
01/23/2014
Top bank executives are struggling to convince the world’s business elite in Davos the financial system is safer, more than five years since it fell into crisis.
01/23/2014
Barclays chief Antony Jenkins says that despite increased regulation across the banking system, there was still much work to be done
01/23/2014
The Financial Times reports the bank made a submission to the UK Treasury saying the UK would have greater political sway in crossborder negotiations with the Eurozone if it is past of the EU.
01/22/2014
Not yet the time to change horses -ING Investment Management
In our (short-term) tactical asset allocation we opened an underweight in emerging market equities.
01/22/2014
But finding that growth has gotten tougher.
01/22/2014
His experience has been welcomed by the Wealth Management Association’s director of regulation Ian Cornwall.
01/22/2014
Improving economic data suggests the global economy continues to recover
01/21/2014
Less Than One in Five Trust Leaders to Tell the Truth
01/21/2014
Rising Overvaluations No Bar to Overweighting Equities
01/20/2014
It is no secret that equity analysts at banks do not always give the best investment advice.
01/20/2014
This year will inevitably be peppered with references to the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.