04/16/2014
Investor confidence in global economic growth remains high even as expectations of higher short-term rates increase, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for April.
04/16/2014
Mr Barton leads McKinsey's work on "the future of capitalism, long-term value-creation and the role of business leadership in society", he is an adviser to the Canadian prime minister.
04/15/2014
This has meant the amount of AA-rated sovereign debt now exceeds the AAA pool, with implications for fund managers and clients alike.
04/15/2014
High-frequency trading has been getting a lot of coverage since the release of Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys and his talk on 60 Minutes about speed traders rigging the stock market for average investors.
04/15/2014
The number of people saving money in the world has grown larger, older, and richer
04/15/2014
Traders have ramped up their bets on sterling, with a big jump in the number of hedge funds taking long positions in the pound in expectation of a rate hike, US data shows.
04/15/2014
ML Capital Asset Management is reporting high levels of demand for both European and US long/short equity funds this quarter, with a healthy swing towards UK equity strategies.
04/15/2014
What’s going to happen to Barclays investment bank when it presents its new plan in June? Tushar Morzaria, the bank’s chief financial officer who took the job six months ago, admitted to analysts in February that its future is not entirely cle
04/15/2014
Yorkshire attracts HNW's as commercial property investment leaps to £1 billion
Wealthy foreign investors spent nearly £1 billion buying up chunks of commercial property in the Yorkshire region over the last two years when London failed to hit the mark for price.
04/15/2014
7 changes to asset management operating models
04/15/2014
Britons who stand to inherit sizable sums from their affluent parents are becoming more and more likely to use it to cover the rising cost of living, rather than saving it or using it to buy property.
04/14/2014
It was 1968, and Farouk al-Kasim was struggling with an important decision
04/14/2014
Elections are strange beasts.
04/14/2014
He says: “This is a reflection of the still very accommodative stance surrounding markets at the moment from liquidity and low interest rate policy.
04/11/2014
The Investment Management Association is to merge with the Investment Affairs Division of the Association of British Insurers.
04/11/2014
The state is home to Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Europe’s biggest investment bank by revenue, which has repeatedly said a split would drive up costs for clients and hurt European banks’ ability to compete with U.S. firms.
04/10/2014
Kenneth Haar from Corporate Europe Observatory says: “The crisis revealed a clear need for stronger rules on financial markets. But reform has proved difficult, and these numbers are an important part of the explanation. The financial lobby's f
04/10/2014
How easy is it to trip up in tax? A recent case shows that even the simple things can be confusing to the taxpayer, and he pays the penalty.
04/10/2014
Seven years ago, relatively few people outside of financial services had probably heard of Lehman Brothers, certainly in the UK.
04/09/2014
Alternative managers also had higher operating profits