12/16/2013
Europe has been the last place many people have wanted to invest for the past few years, with the sovereign debt crisis, the future of the euro, austerity and recession all raising concerns about the viability of the region.
12/15/2013
The public face of an industry in desperate need of a reputational makeover will live on
12/15/2013
The group has been catapulted to the seventh biggest in net retail sales – last year, it wasn’t even in the top 20.
12/15/2013
Bitcoin could be Paypal 2.0, but it will never be the dollar 2.0. Not when prices would have had to fall 98.5 percent the past year if they'd been set in terms of Bitcoin.
12/12/2013
The perverse world of sales incentives created by Lloyds Banking Group's controversial staff pay schemes saw some employees resort to desperate measures to avoid taking a salary cut
12/12/2013
One of the more interesting recent economic metaphors is that of the 'black swan'.
12/12/2013
Standard declined to give Barrett access to the platform to make changes to the portfolio and required him to go through a Standard Life agent via telephone if he wanted to transact or make changes.
12/12/2013
‘Grecovery’ is likely to be the most important European economic and political event of 2014.
12/12/2013
Closing address by Mr Luis M Linde, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the IX IESE (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa/Business School of the University of Navarra) Banking Sector Meeting “Banks – beyond the crisis”
12/11/2013
Some expected and unexpected changes for individuals and trustees – but was it smiles all round, or tears and frowns?
12/11/2013
Liontrust has seen a surge in assets under management in the last three years since chief executive John Ions took the reigns and he says the capacity is there to continue growing
12/11/2013
Potential opportunities for hedge funds and for UK commercial property
12/11/2013
Growth outlook: advanced economies take the lead
12/11/2013
The fundamental principle underpinning banking union’s three-pillar approach – the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Single Resolution Authority and Deposit Guarantee Scheme – is to end the kind of taxpayer bailouts of banks that occurred in
12/10/2013
"Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit” - Elbert Hubbard
12/10/2013
Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the ICI Global Trading and Market Structure Conference. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.
12/10/2013
According to the Association of Investment Companies, the trade body for the investment trust industry, the average fund has returned 16pc over the past year.
12/09/2013
The global investment manager believes that international equity markets can continue to make progress into 2015, as long as policy errors are avoided and corporate profits expand.
12/08/2013
I have always been somewhat cynical over the 'independence' of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
12/07/2013
Foreign direct investment into emerging markets should decline next year because of persistent concerns about the global economy