04/01/2020
Are family businesses better prepared to survive during economic turmoil?
The trend towards low spending is typically explained by the fact that the family is footing the bill of an expenditure.
Comment, Analysis & Research
03/31/2020
Investment banking: a problem child for UBS and Credit Suisse
The unit is said to have earned around $ 120 million for the bank last year from trading speculative junk bonds, as Reuters wrote.
03/31/2020
'Consumer confidence will reach record lows, with a drastic effect' - comment on UK consumer confidence figures from Close Brothers
In the coming months we expect consumer confidence to reach record lows which could have a drastic further negative effect on demand and spending.
03/31/2020
Global Investment Committee Outlook
The near-infinite expansion of sovereign bond QE also is an incomparable shock to the system, almost like setting to maximum the electricity used to stimulate the brain of a comatose patient.
03/31/2020
Banks should ‘hang heads in shame’ over little to no help with Covid-19
One member said: “We haven’t had enough profit in the last three years as we are just about ticking over in a job I love.”
03/31/2020
Surviving coronavirus: FAQs for UK employers
The guidance from government is still sketchy so we have had to fill in some of the detail working from experience and first principles.
03/31/2020
V, W or L: what shape will the recovery take?
Although a rapid V-shaped recovery is our central forecast, if Covid-19 lingers there is a risk of a “double-dip” recession.
03/31/2020
The cavalry (finally) arrives
The pandemic is spreading rapidly in the US, which is now following the rest of the West into self-isolation. Beware of leverage and expect dividend cuts, warns our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth.
03/31/2020
Perfect Storm for Markets as Economic Time Stops by Butterfield Group
Certain sectors of the economy are more directly exposed to the economic shutdown, but the breadth of this shutdown will impact every sector.
03/31/2020
Ritz sale inflames Barclay twins row
The deal came on the day the hotel closed its doors for the first time ever since it first opened, after London went into lockdown as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
03/31/2020
Leadership through a crisis, from a CEO who’s been there.
2020 is an unprecedented situation but the principles of good leadership are constant.
03/31/2020
Your company culture’s power to shrink the distance.
As time goes on, we expect to hear more and more of these kind of examples of company culture adapting and growing into the new paradigm of remote-working and restricted movement.
03/30/2020
Four in 10 UK businesses abandon banking services applications over slow due diligence processes
It's also worrying that so many companies admit to minimal KYC onboarding processes, as well as offering zero training on important directives such as 5MLD.
03/30/2020
BCS Global Markets offering free research until 1 July, 2020
BCS GM research products equip investors with timely and actionable information on market developments as well as with specific recommendations and an action plan.
03/30/2020
German minister commits suicide after 'coronavirus crisis worries'
Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday.
03/27/2020
The Art Market Adjusts: How the art world is quickly adopting the use of virtual viewing rooms
In the midst of the new social distancing norm, “digital viewing rooms” seem to have become the latest buzz phrase in the art world.
03/27/2020
Charities update
The Government has said that it is willing to support the charity sector during this period and last week was in talks with charity leaders about what could be done.
03/27/2020
Coronavirus & markets - latest fund manager views by St. James's Place
The rate and severity of the global fall in share prices since the second half of February has been remarkable and this should not be played down.
03/27/2020
Quarterly Investment Update: A novel danger, and response
The global economy has suffered a shock that is as ‘novel’ as the coronavirus. But the response has also been unprecedented, and should bolster the recovery when it comes.
03/27/2020
(Not) business as usual: Fidelity’s Paras Anand
While policy intervention will help to mitigate the near- and medium-term pressures on the global economy, it will inevitably come with some costs.