12/12/2013
Death of a Lloyds Salesman
The perverse world of sales incentives created by Lloyds Banking Group's controversial staff pay schemes saw some employees resort to desperate measures to avoid taking a salary cut
Comment, Analysis & Research
12/12/2013
Black Swans and the Global Financial Crisis
One of the more interesting recent economic metaphors is that of the 'black swan'.
12/12/2013
Standard Life denies low-client advisers full wrap access
Standard declined to give Barrett access to the platform to make changes to the portfolio and required him to go through a Standard Life agent via telephone if he wanted to transact or make changes.
12/12/2013
Argonauts return to Greece
‘Grecovery’ is likely to be the most important European economic and political event of 2014.
12/12/2013
Luis M Linde: Reflections on the road and challenges ahead – regulatory changes affecting banking activity
Closing address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the IX IESE (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa/Business School of the University of Navarra) Banking Sector Meeting “Banks – beyond the crisis”
12/11/2013
High net worth individuals and trustees – time to breathe easy? by Gary Heynes
Some expected and unexpected changes for individuals and trustees – but was it smiles all round, or tears and frowns?
12/11/2013
The Ions Age at Liontrust
Liontrust has seen a surge in assets under management in the last three years since chief executive John Ions took the reigns and he says the capacity is there to continue growing
12/11/2013
Coutts Views - investment outlook for 2014
Potential opportunities for hedge funds and for UK commercial property
12/11/2013
Ten Capital Market Themes for 2014 - Raiffeisen Centrobank
Growth outlook: advanced economies take the lead
12/11/2013
European banking union moves a step closer to reality
The fundamental principle underpinning banking union’s three-pillar approach – the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Single Resolution Authority and Deposit Guarantee Scheme – is to end the kind of taxpayer bailouts of banks that occurred in
12/10/2013
The Yellen Put 'Spread'- Neil Staines, ECU
"Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit” - Elbert Hubbard
12/10/2013
Looking ahead to 2014 by Martin Wheatley, FCA
Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the ICI Global Trading and Market Structure Conference. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.
12/10/2013
The best performing investment trusts of 2013
According to the Association of Investment Companies, the trade body for the investment trust industry, the average fund has returned 16pc over the past year.
12/09/2013
The Economic and Market Outlook for 2014 - Standard Life Investment​s
The global investment manager believes that international equity markets can continue to make progress into 2015, as long as policy errors are avoided and corporate profits expand.
12/08/2013
Has Carney got the Old Lady's Mojo back? by Justin Urquhart Stewart
I have always been somewhat cynical over the 'independence' of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
12/07/2013
World Bank: Emerging market investment to fall
Foreign direct investment into emerging markets should decline next year because of persistent concerns about the global economy
12/05/2013
Goldmark: Nelson Mandela focused on the horizon
A generous and principled giant has died.
12/05/2013
The turtle and the hare by Tim Price
Of all the stories in the history of markets, that of ‘the turtles’ may well be the most intriguing.
12/05/2013
Families & Investment by Gary Heynes
Homeowners, overseas property owners and married couples – so who were the winners and losers?
12/04/2013
Markets in transition by Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Head of Strategy, ING
Since May this year, markets have been in a transition phase. Investors are aware that the unorthodox policies the US Federal Reserve have applied for years will now gradually be ended.