09/21/2023
Government faces policy conundrum as IHT receipts on course to break new records
The value of the average UK home now sits at almost £290,000, just £35,000 less than the frozen £325,000 IHT nil rate band.
Comment, Analysis & Research
09/20/2023
Indosuez WM CIO: «People Don't Believe in the China Story»
Markets posted a brief rally in January before trending lower and the CSI 300 is now down nearly 5 percent year-to-date.
09/20/2023
Clients in focus as Advisers have plenty to ponder
Beyond this, Courtiers is continuing to evolve, with important changes in the pipeline that clients should begin to notice over the coming months.
09/20/2023
How compounding your returns could help you get more from investing
By leaving your money invested for longer you could take advantage of compounding to help realise greater returns and potentially protect your wealth from volatility.
09/20/2023
Competitiveness and growth: continuing the conversation − speech by Victoria Saporta
Given at the conference on the role of financial regulation in international competitiveness and economic growth held at Bank of England
09/20/2023
Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 15 September 2023
All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
09/20/2023
Report: Maintaining resilience in a tough economic climate
The survey finds that 77% of businesses rate Government support as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ and expect costs to continue to rise over the next 12 months.
09/20/2023
Parmenion attracts takeover bids as AssetCo claims its worth £300m
AssetCo said its Parmenion stake is worth £75m-£90m and the platform has been the subject of several takeover bids.
09/20/2023
Christian Sewing's keynote at the Handelsblatt Banken Summit 2023
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09/20/2023
UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2023: Let the air go
From mid-2022 to mid-2023, real property prices in the cities analyzed fell by an average of 5 percent. The correction phase is likely to continue.
09/20/2023
Inflation sees surprise downtick but BoE still poised to pull trigger on another rate hike
The BoE has had a tough task in navigating its fight against inflation, and this morning’s figures suggest it may finally be having a real impact.
09/19/2023
Why the US dollar may be stronger for longer
If the US economy has surprised investors with its resilience, the dollar has also confounded early-2023’s expectations that it would weaken.
09/19/2023
Record number of centenarians reiterates importance of retirement planning
There are many factors which have caused this considerable rise, including massive improvements in health care and spikes in the number of births after the end of World War One.
09/19/2023
It’s what you know (and just ain’t so)
The House View on portfolio diversification
09/19/2023
15 years since Lehman's: from 5% to 0.25% and back
From a UK perspective, Lehman’s UK businesses went into administration on the same day and UK bank shares plunged.
09/19/2023
Future of Wealth Management is relationships not transactions, new research finds
Wealth management staff will need new skills – to support and complement deployment of more technology
09/19/2023
UBS is cutting researchers, including its own people
They included some of its own historic staff and some who'd moved from Credit Suisse.
09/18/2023
Private infrastructure: Providing access to the key drivers of the infrastructure transition
They also offer some protection against global market volatility and inflation spikes, and are a source of funding when the traditional banking avenues are unavailable.
09/18/2023
Should UBS be nationalized?
For this purpose, a group led by the non-party Bernhard Schmidt submitted the text of a popular initiative to the Federal Chancellery for preliminary examination.
09/18/2023
Former Barclays bank in North Wales town could get a new future
The site closed in 2021 and has been empty since then