08/03/2017
Is it time to add UK university fees to your expat mortgage?
This is particularly true of those who have mortgages or own property in the UK, where mortgage interest rates can be as low as 2.49% for expatriate buy to let loans.
Comment, Analysis & Research
08/02/2017
Coutts & Company’s Higgins Sees No Bubble in Bonds
He speaks with Bloomberg's Mark Barton on "Bloomberg Markets
08/02/2017
Empty homes: normal rules do not apply to super-rich in London
Even the prospect of collecting £10,000 a month is not enough to encourage wealthy owners to fill their vacant properties
08/02/2017
Coutts Monthly Investment Review - August 2017
Mohammad Syed, Head of Global Markets at Coutts.
08/02/2017
Green finance: can it help combat climate change?
The political economy of CC is about who will pay for what, and when and how to share the burden of abatement costs
08/02/2017
Will cryptocurrency get caught in HMRC’s non-dom net?
More and more businesses in the UK are willing to accept cryptocurrencies.
08/02/2017
Helping People Age Well - Coutts
The Coutts Foundation supported social entrepreneurs who are creating solutions for an ageing society
08/02/2017
Even the wealthy balk at the cost of advice
The proportion of British investors who claim to invest with no help or advice from experts continues to increase – up from 40% in November 2016 to 44% in May 2017
08/01/2017
St. James’s Place – “Shrinking chocolates and stuttering growth”
A busy week of news for company earnings and economic growth ends with a tumble for technology and tobacco stocks.
08/01/2017
Fred Goodwin, the now disgraced former RBS chief executive, in his own words
In 2001 Goodwin spoke exclusively to Alasdair Northrop in three articles for Insider seven years before the 2008 financial crash brought about the bank's collapse and led to taxpayers bailing it out.
08/01/2017
SME investment declines for first time in five years
The report highlights that clusters of regions for deals have emerged.
08/01/2017
London leads the way for equity investment but UK tech clusters are on the rise
The surge of up and coming tech clusters right across the UK has helped take a small bite out of the capital’s overall deal share, with the likes of Cambridge.
08/01/2017
Retirement funding gap looms as pension confusion reigns among UK savers
The research, carried out by YouGov, looks to highlight the impact that government changes have on UK consumer’s understanding of their pension options.
08/01/2017
Central Bank Policy Normalisation is a Turning Point
The UK remains our favourite developed market short and we have profited from rising yields since the Brexit referendum and subsequent central bank stimulus drove Gilt yields to historically low levels in 2016.
08/01/2017
Number of UK women earning over £1m a year doubles over 5 years
Men still outnumber women 10 to 1 among those in £1m pay bracket
08/01/2017
Revealed for the first time: just how much gold is in London's vaults
The data was published by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) as part of a new drive to provide greater transparency around the gold market and encourage investors to buy into the precious metal.
08/01/2017
Britain could lose 40,000 investment banking jobs in Brexit exodus
Initially these moves are expected to take between 12,000 and 17,000 wholesale banking jobs out of the U.K. capital.
08/01/2017
Riddikulus spell to banish boggarts among peers by Justin Urquhart Stewart
It’s now 20 years since the first Harry Potter book hit the shelves.
07/31/2017
The Business Case for Reinvention by Penny Lovell
“I reinvented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman” – David Bowie
07/31/2017
Every generation of investors has its darlings... by Tim Price
Given what John Maynard Keynes and his acolytes have done for the economy and financial system, there is a grim irony in his followers doing the same thing for their own life savings.