10/19/2013
Ethical funds: good investments or emotive marketing?
Britain’s army of five million private investors was last week the target of a marketing blitz to promote “ethical” funds – despite a number of flaws tainting this industry.
Comment, Analysis & Research
10/18/2013
How to manage risks and grow family wealth
Wealth owners have come to associate risk with volatility.
10/17/2013
I’m a (taxpaying) celebrity – get me out of here? by Gary Heynes
Much has been made in the press this week about celebrities looking to avoid paying tax in the UK by becoming ‘tax exiles’.
10/16/2013
Looking to the future: Increased investment and activity planned - KPMG
According to our survey, hedge fund managers are convinced that the costs and resources associated with regulatory compliance are only set to increase over the next five years.
10/16/2013
Investors Concerned That Global Economic Recovery Could Falter - BofA Merrill Lynch
European and Japanese Equities Retain Positive Sentiment
10/15/2013
Follow The Money: How UK Fund Flows Changed After Buxton's Exit
Richard Buxton’s decision to leave Schroders for Old Mutual Global Investors in March has helped boost a number of UK equity funds as investors switched holdings.
10/15/2013
Credit Suisse introduces administration and trading service to iCPPI platform
Credit Suisse has integrated a new administration and trading service to its iCPPI hedging platform.
10/15/2013
Global Asset Managment Sales and Marketing Demands Central Coordination and Local Action
Senior employees at corporate headquarters seek to exert more control across all the firm's offices, while local teams hold on tight to their autonomy
10/15/2013
Kennox fund with new Ucits status likely to target Switzerland
Kennox Asset Management is likely to target high end investment managers, and single and multi-family offices in Switzerland for the Ucits version of its Strategic Value Fund.
10/14/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - "Return to the safety of income"
The problems in the US are only symptomatic of the trials and tribulations being seen in many G-7 countries as they attempt to cut the burden of government debt.
10/14/2013
Hope and history - St. James's Place
History is not a guide to future performance, but that rarely stops financial markets and investors from glancing back in the hope of gleaning what might lie ahead.
10/14/2013
Most Wonderful Time of the Year By: Tom Becket, CIO,Psigma
Market timing, although scoffed at by many as impossible or pointless, has taken on far greater importance in the last few years
10/14/2013
Bank boss's break shows stress needs to be taken seriously
The latest high-profile victim of stress and exhaustion comes just days after the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development /Simplyhealth annual absence survey
10/13/2013
UK Start-Ups, Japanese Kick Starts by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Bravo start ups
10/13/2013
How Credit Suisse underwent painful bond surgery -and survived
Credit Suisse has been among the most aggressive banks in paring back its fixed income, currency and commodities trading business after the financial crisis.
10/13/2013
Companies lack trust in forecasts, warns study
Less than half of all finance professionals at UK companies think the forecasts they rely on are reliable
10/10/2013
Advisors Obsessed With Asset Allocation Are The Real Dinosaurs Of Wealth Management
Stock and fixed-income ETFs have made this relatively easy.
10/10/2013
Europe's economy..... "the last great recovery trade" - Argonaut Capital Partners
Norris “positively enthused by the potential for a positive earnings surprise amongst a select number of stocks in the banking sector”
10/09/2013
Tax debate shifts from avoidance to evasion by George Bull
With the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development now working on plans to tackle international tax avoidance by multi-national corporations, and summer rapidly turning to autumn in the UK, we expect to see a change in emphasis in the Great Ta
10/09/2013
The Shifting Forecast by Seven Investment Management
The IMF has confirmed what much of the economic news in the past few months has been telling us. In the ebb and flow of global economics, the developed world has been riding up the crest of a wave. But emerging markets, to continue the maritime analogy, h