05/30/2014
Saïd Business School Joins the Call for Financial Inclusion for Women Worldwide
The full petition will be delivered in person to the UN in New York on 9 June 2014.
Comment, Analysis & Research
05/30/2014
A retirement utopia or pensioner's dilema?
Brewin Dolphin warns of the dangers of missing out on pension advice
05/29/2014
Large Bank LIBOR Liabilities; A Look At Fines Paid To Date
A recap of developments in the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal to date
05/29/2014
Do All Women Want Rich Men Like Female Penguins?
The more pebbles a male penguin has for his nest, the more irresistible he will be to females
05/29/2014
European Banks, Look How You’ve Shrunk
At the end of 2012 there were three European banks with balance sheets of more than €2 trillion
05/29/2014
Invesco named as fund house of the year
Boutique and medium-sized fund houses offer the highest returns
05/29/2014
UK economic recovery hampered by continued distrust in the banking sector
The SME Finance Monitor also revealed that 48% of small businesses that took part in the survey were ‘permanent non-borrowers’
05/28/2014
World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Should Follow Canada's Model
A new in-depth review of the world’s commonly accepted top sovereign wealth fund is being told to take a page out of the Canadian playbook.
05/27/2014
Getting Smart Beta
Smart beta is used to describe indexes that use rules-based stock picking and alternative weighting methods
05/27/2014
Interview: David Ferguson, Nucleus Financial Group
Wraps are a relatively new phenomenon in this country.
05/27/2014
Italy asset management posts inflows of 7 bln euros in April
Total inflows over the first four months of the year amounted to 36.5 billion euros
05/27/2014
Ireland Leading European Location For Asia-Pacific Asset Managers
The survey found that the views of Asia-Pacific asset managers are in line with their international colleagues
05/26/2014
Flotation Fatigue by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The news last week that some of the institutional investors being offered shares in Saga were getting somewhat disgruntled should come as no surprise. We have had a raft (sorry for the poor pun) of flotations and, as is often the case, they have not lived
05/26/2014
Global M&A and dividend frenzy fed by easy money
On top of this central bank liquidity there are the funds ‘accumulated by European companies as a precaution after the liquidity crunches they experienced in 2008 and 2011
05/23/2014
Raiffeisen confident in Russia's attractions -CEO
Sevelda earlier told Austrian radio that the bank was largely unaffected by large capital outflows from Russia, its single most important market.
05/23/2014
Cashflow ‘biggest threat to survival’ - Close Brothers Business Barometer
It’s clear that access to working capital and maintaining a reliable cashflow are a concern for a large number of SMEs
05/23/2014
No Pain, No Gain
A catalyst for change in the European institutional space
05/23/2014
Its a Kind of Magic! - Neil Staines, ECU
"ECB can NOT perform magic on the economy” -ECB, Yves Mersch
05/22/2014
Charteris' Yousefian on Property
"Attractiv​e yields and diversific​ation benefits will power increased Portfolio weightings to Property in the months ahead. Balanced portfolios could we weighted as much as 20% to Property."
05/22/2014
HMRC ‘tax-bashing’ the middle classes? by Mike Down, Baker Tilly
No one doubts that HMRC has a difficult job to do in ensuring that every taxpayer pays their fair share of tax. However, as always there is the question of who is the arbiter of calculating what that fair share is, and it is here that we are seeing what c