01/30/2014
The fourth quarter of 2013 can be characterised by the severe weight of money chasing a limited supply of product, which led to strong capital growth across all sectors and resulted in the IPD Monthly Index achieving its highest level since 2010.
01/29/2014
In 2014, the MINT countries will surpass the BRICSs in the world race for millionaires
01/29/2014
European Property Funds are Back on the Radar but Investor Sentiment is Mixed
01/29/2014
Asset owners are increasingly transforming their governance arrangements to deal with investing in today’s fast-moving environment
01/29/2014
Europe will unveil a blueprint to challenge the power of big banks on Wednesday but critics believe it will change little as it does not strictly separate multi-billion-euro market bets from savers’ money.
01/28/2014
Discussions with HMRC reveal key issues
01/28/2014
Make no mistake, the recovery of the UK economy is not a flash in the pan.
01/28/2014
"It is your concern when your neighbours wall is on fire” - Horace
01/27/2014
Good in theory - poor in execution
01/27/2014
So farewell then, forward guidance. We barely knew you. We were never fans of this policy and said as much. Here, for example, is what we wrote in ‘The Spectator’ last October:
01/27/2014
It was like the 1980s and the fictional world of Gordon Gekko all over again.
01/27/2014
Simplify executive pay, says Aberdeen chief
Martin Gilbert believes chief executives and other senior directors should be given salaries, with performance bonuses only if appropriate, to align interests with investors
01/27/2014
Companies shunned by high street lenders have somewhere new to turn, Nicola Horlick tells Patrick Hosking
01/27/2014
Italian households tend to have more assets and fewer debts than their euro-zone counterparts.
01/27/2014
Advisers need to understand distinctions between women and men investors
01/25/2014
European banks have a combined capital shortfall of about 84 billion euros ($115 billion), German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported, citing a new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
01/24/2014
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.
01/24/2014
Last week a group of free-thinkers gathered in Guernsey with the simple brief of making the island the best place to live on the earth.
01/23/2014
Top bank executives are struggling to convince the world’s business elite in Davos the financial system is safer, more than five years since it fell into crisis.
01/23/2014
Barclays chief Antony Jenkins says that despite increased regulation across the banking system, there was still much work to be done