04/07/2014
It is a dazzling morning and Bestinvest chief investment officer Gareth Lewis has strolled for 10 minutes in the March sunshine from his London home to Bestinvest’s Mayfair headquarters, tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac close to businessman John C
04/07/2014
So the question was - is it a good recovery or a great recovery?
04/07/2014
Colliers International assesses the last year and looks at the current one
04/07/2014
In the last few weeks, the corridors of the asset management companies have been buzzing with discussions of the mutual fund platform and its impact.
04/07/2014
Many policymakers believe the worst is over, but is this just 'groupthink'? And which warnings might the IMF miss this time?
04/07/2014
The bank’s stated purpose is to manage funds for Roman Catholic orders of priests and nuns, charitable institutions and Vatican employees and retirees.
04/07/2014
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has urged central banks to launch more QE, which has only succeeded in putting a rocket under asset prices
04/04/2014
In a speech at the London Business School’s Asset Management Conference, Andrew Haldane discusses the risks posed by the asset management industry to financial stability, and the associated policy implications.
04/04/2014
One of the most controversial aspects of fund management is performance fees - payments made in addition to management fees.
04/04/2014
The world's $87 trillion (£52 trillion) asset management industry is getting riskier and echoes some of the "too big to fail" risks already being addressed at banks
04/04/2014
Managers allocate more resources to fund selectors to secure shelf space as competition intensifies in the wake of the Retail Distribution Review
04/04/2014
In every sense, this is Europe’s make or break quarter, Saxo Bank writes in its second quarterly insight for 2014.
04/04/2014
Economic recovery despite geopolitical tensions
04/03/2014
For brokerages to successfully meet such impending reforms, embracing the need for better technology in the way of an online platform is essential.
04/03/2014
Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.
04/03/2014
Europe now accounts for 29% of the world's largest fortunes, up two percentage points in 25 years, and emerging Europe accounts for 42% of the continent's fortunes.
04/02/2014
In contrast to previous decades when the term 'millionaire' indicated significant personal wealth, it is clear that our perceptions of what it means to be wealthy have changed.
04/01/2014
The developed world’s major stock exchanges have been unable to sustain the advances of 2013 over the first quarter of the year
03/31/2014
The UK consumer is a powerful part of the UK economy.
03/31/2014
Last week’s Budget introduced three phased changes for properties bought by a company or an arrangement that includes a company.