03/13/2014

Five crucial elements to DFM due dilligence

These range from the high-end bespoke services all the way down to managed portfolios on a third-party platform which will deal with lower investment amounts.

03/12/2014

Fund chief Stout in warning over world markets

Murray International delivered less than a quarter of the returns of the wider market in the 12 months to December 31, in its first annual underperformance in the past 11 years.

03/11/2014

Barclays' bonus muddle

When I talk to Barclays' directors and also to regulators about how much that bank allocated to pay what it calls incentives - or bonuses

03/10/2014

Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says

The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates

03/10/2014

Why Bitcoin Isn't Dead Yet

The digital cryptocurrency which may or may not have been founded in 2009 by a 64-year-old Japanese recluse — was hit by the biggest challenge it's faced so far when Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin exchange.

03/07/2014

Sovereign Wealth Fund Forum Relocates to London

The Investment Management Association – the trade body for the UK’s asset management industry – has welcomed the news that the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds is to relocate its Secretariat in London

03/06/2014

Banks pay out £482m for mis-sold rate swaps

Britain’s biggest banks have now paid out £482 million in compensation to small firms that were mis-sold complex interest rate hedging products, according to the City regulator.

03/06/2014

Budget prediction​s - Baker Tilly

In this edition of Baker Tilly’s weekly round-up of the most important tax news, we look ahead to what might be in the Chancellor’s Red Box on Budget Day.