10/14/2013
Bank boss's break shows stress needs to be taken seriously
The latest high-profile victim of stress and exhaustion comes just days after the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development /Simplyhealth annual absence survey
Comment, Analysis & Research
10/13/2013
UK Start-Ups, Japanese Kick Starts by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Bravo start ups
10/13/2013
How Credit Suisse underwent painful bond surgery -and survived
Credit Suisse has been among the most aggressive banks in paring back its fixed income, currency and commodities trading business after the financial crisis.
10/13/2013
Companies lack trust in forecasts, warns study
Less than half of all finance professionals at UK companies think the forecasts they rely on are reliable
10/10/2013
Advisors Obsessed With Asset Allocation Are The Real Dinosaurs Of Wealth Management
Stock and fixed-income ETFs have made this relatively easy.
10/10/2013
Europe's economy..... "the last great recovery trade" - Argonaut Capital Partners
Norris “positively enthused by the potential for a positive earnings surprise amongst a select number of stocks in the banking sector”
10/09/2013
Tax debate shifts from avoidance to evasion by George Bull
With the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development now working on plans to tackle international tax avoidance by multi-national corporations, and summer rapidly turning to autumn in the UK, we expect to see a change in emphasis in the Great Ta
10/09/2013
The Shifting Forecast by Seven Investment Management
The IMF has confirmed what much of the economic news in the past few months has been telling us. In the ebb and flow of global economics, the developed world has been riding up the crest of a wave. But emerging markets, to continue the maritime analogy, h
10/09/2013
Financial industry dissatisfied with conventional benchmark index products
Financial industry executives routinely use index products to benchmark their investment performance, but the majority of users are unhappy with the license restrictions and overall value they receive from index providers.
10/08/2013
BlackRock Investment Institute: Patterns in Equity Returns
The paper also discussed how factors such as volatility, inflation, growth, interest rates, currencies and correlations may drive returns in the short term as well as in the long run.
10/08/2013
London Mayor adviser: UK needs to decentralise
Economic adviser to the Mayor of London Dr Gerald Lyons believes the UK economy needs to decentralise in order for further growth to take place.
10/08/2013
European Institutional Managers Feel the Squeeze on Fees - RESEARCH
Pooled funds will struggle to justify charges as pensions and insurers demand separate accounts
10/08/2013
Viewpoint: Europe’s Stability Threatened by Banking Authority
A story emerged this week that is likely to fuel tension between the European Central Bank and Europe’s current banking regulator, the European Banking Authority.
10/07/2013
Why Russia prefers BRICS to Europe
Europe has an irresistible appeal for many Russians but after repeated rebuffs by the West, Moscow is coming around to the view that BRICS makes a better bedfellow.
10/06/2013
More Housing Hokum by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The latest „Help to Buy‟ plans, much vaunted by our esteemed politicians at their party conference last week, seems to have been not quite as popular with some of the banks as had originally been implied.
10/06/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - "No default - we hope"
While the US political impasse may provide further disruption to the market, we very much doubt that the government will default on its debt obligations. It has left all non-essential government activities closed.
10/06/2013
Is Mark Carney's forward guidance plan a step backwards?
Bank of England governor's move to persuade markets that interest rates will not immediately rise has provoked scepticism
10/03/2013
Banks learn the hard way in wealth arena
WEALTH management was seen as one of the great Australian growth industries of the 21st century.
10/03/2013
Healthy Fund Flows Spur Frontier Market Fund Launches
Money tends to flow to markets with better infrastructure and liquidity
10/03/2013
HMRC’s Swiss Tax initiative - running out of steam? by Mike Down
Last week HMRC wrote to everyone affected by the UK/Switzerland tax agreement asking them to come clean as to whether they owe tax or not.