03/11/2013
Professional job opportunities increase by 8% compared to February 2012
Month-on-month there was a 6% decrease in job availability in February 2013.
Comment, Analysis & Research
03/11/2013
Rothschild Market Perspective: Impact of currency price movements: a blessing or a headache?
Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.
03/11/2013
TIM Group Announces Top Performing Brokerage Firms and Salespeople in Europe
TIM Group today reported results of the TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards 2012 for the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, identifying the best institutional equity salespeople and their brokerage firms in the combined region.
03/10/2013
Coutts - Wealth Watch - Stock-market highs a downer for gold
Gold also remains more attractive than other traditional stores of value such as government bonds.
03/10/2013
Ruffer: We’re on course for another financial crisis
FE Alpha Manager Steve Russell (pictured) and Hamish Baillie have had a good year, thanks largely to their overweight position in Japan
03/10/2013
A year after the shareholder spring, the green shoots of rebellion are withering
About this time last year, Bob Diamond's pay package seemed to have triggered a new anger in investors. Looking back now, it seems the headlines were better than the reality
03/10/2013
Former Barclays pay chief: I said no to bonus for Bob Diamond
'He's gone now so history tells me I was right': Bob Diamond, formerly of Barclays
03/10/2013
Top 10 international boarding schools in the world
For students who already have the English skills, top boarding schools provide an international perspective that they won’t encounter anywhere else.
03/10/2013
Sovereign wealth funds are about to get wealthier
Sovereign wealth funds are predicted to grow by $1 billion a day this year, according to a new report.
03/10/2013
China, Gold, Banks & a Comet by Justin Urquhart Stewart
I have some serious concerns about both private and public Chinese property and some of the infrastructure as well.
03/08/2013
Anatomy of a failure
EUROCRATS used to annoy the British by telling them their country was bound one day to join the euro
03/07/2013
Barings Bank rogue comes clean
Rogue trader Nick Leeson knows all about crime and punishment
03/06/2013
Split RBS into good and bad banks, says Bank of England governor
Mervyn King says current situation 'nonsense' as he lays bare his disagreement with George Osborne over RBS's future
03/06/2013
“Back to the Old House” by Nick Mottram, Head of Global Equities, Dalton Strategic Partnership
When Morrissey first wrote the lyrics “I would rather not go back to the old house, there’s too many bad memories there” in 1983, I doubt he imagined them capturing the feelings of investors and politicians thirty years later.
03/06/2013
Properties sales under the microscope by Mike Down
As HMRC launches yet another disclosure campaign, we ask whether it’s beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day?
03/05/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch: It's only halftime, with Bank Rate to stay at 0.5% for four more years
Four years on they remain at historic lows – and there’s no sign they will rise any day soon.
03/04/2013
Op-Ed: Can Islamic Finance save us from the Banksters?
It was reported that the banks were lending less, in spite of all the promises by Vince Cable and others of funding for lending and yet more Quantitative Easing.
03/04/2013
Global Markets Weekly Outlook - Coutts & Co
US economic surprises have swung back to positive, bucking the weaker trend that continues to mar most other developed markets.
03/03/2013
Double whammy for owners of foreign homes
With only five weeks left before the end of the tax year, it’s time to see if you could be making better use of personal and business allowances to minimise your tax liability. Plus a reduction in the top rate of tax is introduced from the 6 April &
03/03/2013
Latin Economy & Latin Terminology by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Voting in Italy. About the only clear vote we are going to get this year in Italy is likely to be the selection of the new Pope and, whilst he will be a powerful man, he won’t be able to solve Italy’s financial issues.