10/06/2013
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
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
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.
10/03/2013
UK Disclosure facilities
10/02/2013
Our portfolios are slowly becoming more cyclical
10/02/2013
BNP Paribas has ruled out big takeovers like Commerzbank as it builds its presence in specialised banking businesses in Germany over the next three years
10/01/2013
Who would want to be a bank boss?
10/01/2013
Despite limits to potential upside, equities remain preferred asset class as markets enjoy abundant liquidity
10/01/2013
The looming spectre preying on investors’ nerves is the possibility that the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its quantitative easing programme.
10/01/2013
Market reaction to the shutdown was muted according to Lowcock, because the current budget negotiations are viewed as merely a ‘warm-up act’ for the negotiations later this month to extend the US government’s debt ceiling from the curre
09/30/2013
The Future of Investment Reporting
09/30/2013
Economic trends will be clouded by politics this week
09/30/2013
Flows of money from overseas investors boosted funds at British asset managers to a record £5.4trn last year, it has emerged.
09/30/2013
Crispin Odey, probably the only hedge fund manager who's had a sausage named after him
09/30/2013
Although His Time as Dutch Finance Minister gives him a deep understanding of policy-making, ABN Amro chief Gerrit Zalm has mixed views on the current tide of regulatory initiatives in Europe.
09/30/2013
'Like Hargreaves we own our own open architecture platform and [we] both use fund management as an outsourced commodity.
09/29/2013
In its new report, The Most Innovative Companies 2013: Lessons from Leaders, the firm reveals the 50 companies that this year's sample of over 1,500 international executives ranked as the most innovative.
09/29/2013
One of the things I really hate about this season is the party conferences where all the politicians seem to take it in turn to show off their latest sound bites.