07/21/2013
266,000 UK jobs for unregulated financial services
MORE than a quarter of a million jobs could be created if the British financial services industry broke free from the dead hand of over-regulation, a report out today forecasts.
Comment, Analysis & Research
07/18/2013
OECD tackles tax avoidance – fair to all countries?
The G20 group of developed nations has committed to tackling global tax avoidance by multinational companies.
07/17/2013
Performance and risk may be eroded in 2014 as regulation reshapes remuneration - RESEARCH
European banks disadvantaged by pay regulation in competing for talent outside the EU
07/17/2013
High-level global coordination needed to manage QE tapering risks, developing market strains - BMO Financial Group
We view the Q2 instability in key Asian and other developing market currencies largely as a healthy correction away from speculative excess, and a tempering of “QE-related” capital flows
07/15/2013
Customer complaints about banks rocket
in the past three months compared with the same period last year.
07/15/2013
Survey Finds Investors Still Confident In Global Growth Despite China Doubts - BofA Merrill Lynch
Allocations to Equity Rise, Bonds Increasingly Undesired
07/14/2013
Update on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
The SEI Knowledge Partnership spoke with Barry McGrath, partner at Maples & Calder, and Frank Gannon, partner at KPMG, to consider how the AIFMD will affect the way in which non-EU AIFMs are permitted to market AIFs into the European Union and the mai
07/14/2013
Patsies by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management
So the OBR reckons that the PPI repayments have done more to help the economy than all the other stuff the chancellor is trying to do put together!
07/14/2013
Getting real value out of the Royal Mail
Certain stockbrokers will be licking their lips at such potential volumes of trades if the Royal Mail privatisation actually goes ahead
07/14/2013
Goodbye to the end of the world by Chris Darbyshire, 7IM
The investor habitat is changing.
07/13/2013
Hedge Fund vs. Family Office
The SEC, having feasted upon the flesh of Swiss bankers, stood upright, wiped its blood-stained mouth on the back of its hand, cleared its throat, spat, pulled up its collar against the bitter north wind, and chuckling softly under its breath, slipped uns
07/10/2013
Global growth rate to remain supportive of High Yield bonds in 2013 - Tim Dowling, ING
ING IM expects key short-term interest rates to stay low for a prolonged period as monetary policy remains accommodative until the private sector revives
07/10/2013
Barry Norris, Argonaut Capital Partners makes the case for Absolute Return Funds
"You never truly appreciate the value of a properly hedged Absolute Return fund until a market puke, the like of which we witnessed in June"
07/10/2013
Campervan fame for fund manager
READERS may remember Seven Investment Management co-founder Justin Urquhart Stewart as the fund manager who chatted sock colours with the new Bank of England boss Mark Carney on the central line last week
07/09/2013
Have tax havens had their day in the sun?
Daniel Ben-Ami examines the moral offensive against tax avoidance and the part played by offshore centres.
07/09/2013
Wealth gap narrows as richest feel squeeze on earnings
The gap between rich and poor has narrowed over the past year, according to a long-running survey tracking the issue.
07/08/2013
Labour brand Osborne and Cable 'weak' as key reforms to banking system are thrown out
Ministers reject several recommendations of the commission set up to prevent future bailouts
07/08/2013
Carney: a roar not a whimper - St. James's Place
Carney: a roar not a whimper Words, as central bankers and markets know, can have a devastating effect.
07/08/2013
Interview with Ingo Bleier, Head of Investment Banking, Erste Group and Manfred Burdis, Head of DCM Origination, Erste Group
Our aim is not to be a separate investment bank from Erste Group
07/07/2013
Enter the Guv’nor
It is difficult to know quite where to start in extolling the virtues of this semi-mythical godlike being who has just descended to earth to take up his new position at the central bank of the United Kingdom.