03/06/2012
Ten reasons to give ethical investment the green light
it’s becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money.
03/06/2012
it’s becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money.
03/05/2012
Well we shouldn't complain
03/02/2012
Following breaches in the Banking Code of Practice on Taxation, retrospective tax legislation is to be introduced.
02/27/2012
There are some positive dots that we can join together when looking at the UK economy, which when viewed as a connected string, is beginning to show a slightly more creditable and credible pattern.
02/23/2012
Although we remain cautious regarding exposure to European equities in general, selective opportunities may be emerging, as long as global central banks maintain the easy- money stance that is helping to fuel appetite for risk.
02/23/2012
Crisis, what crisis?
02/23/2012
HM Revenue & Customs have now started to issue the £100 penalty notices to those people in self-assessment that did not submit their return by the deadline of 2 February 2012.
02/22/2012
The analysts upgraded their estimate for fixed-income, currencies and commodities sales to a 13 percent drop for the first quarter from a decline of 26 percent after a “material improvement” at the start of the year, the analysts said, while t
02/21/2012
Advisers are feeling more confident about the UK economy but unemployment and government spending cuts are of growing concern, according to Skandia’s latest Adviser Confidence Barometer.
02/20/2012
Following my comments about the missing financial infrastructure in the UK, I was recently comparing the US banking and financial structures with our own.
02/20/2012
Last week began badly when Moody’s changed Britain’s credit outlook from stable to negative
02/17/2012
Central banks continue to ease policy and risk appetite amongst investors has increased. In the very near term however we remain somewhat wary that markets have rallied too strongly and that further profit taking and lower markets are quite possible.
02/15/2012
Deutsche Bank’s Middle East chief offers his perspective on the bigger picture.
02/15/2012
As we predicted in our last Weekly Tax Brief, higher rate tax relief for pension contributions is once again in the firing line.
02/13/2012
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
02/11/2012
“Beware of big round numbers,” says the latest advice from the Local Government Association to Britain’s city councils presentation of their annual budgets.
02/09/2012
No reasonable person contests the idea that we should all pay our proper dues. Nevertheless, in a week when it has emerged that HMRC wrote off £10.9 billion last year (with the Treasury expressing ‘some surprise’ according to the Public
02/06/2012
Oh please stop wringing your hands, politicians, and apparently blaming everyone else except yourselves.
02/06/2012
Stephen Hester signed a contract with the previous government in good faith which detailed how he would be paid for his troubles.
02/03/2012
However the general public feels about Stephen Hester’s bonuses, the taxman is probably also taking a close interest. Could a bonus be taxable despite a decision to waive it?