11/19/2013
HMRC has been regularly publishing lists ‘naming and shaming’ tax dodgers around the country. But now there are more ambitious plans to ‘name and shame’ promoters of high-risk tax avoidance schemes, and we can expect to hear more d
11/19/2013
A wise old(er) man congratulated me earlier in the year in an e-mail because we had stayed the course in Japan
11/19/2013
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” John F Kennedy
11/18/2013
Multi-Asset Insights By Aymeric Forest and Matthias Scheiber, Multi-Asset Fund Managers, Schroders
11/18/2013
As global regulations begin to take effect, launching a hedge fund from scratch will be even more challenging says Pete Hess, President and CEO, Advent Software.
11/18/2013
With the Federal Reserve having opted to keep policy unchanged at its latest meeting on the basis that the US economy still looks insufficiently strong, in our assessment, to survive without active central bank support, the focus for many investors has sh
11/18/2013
Andy Brunner, investment strategist at Morningstar OBSR, believes developed economies will contribute the largest year-on-year increase to global growth in 2014:
11/18/2013
Global stock markets in the final months of 2013 look set to continue to move to expectations of central bank policies as further signs of recovery emerge across the advanced economies.
11/17/2013
A week in New York is an invigorating experience with an opportunity to breathe deeply the strength of positive and creative thinking.
11/17/2013
October 2013 BlackRock ETP Landscape Report
11/17/2013
CQS founder Michael Hintze, one of Europe's most influential hedge fund managers, has warned that France's struggling economy could present a "major pothole" for investors in 2014.
11/17/2013
Emerging market debt: is there more pain to come?
11/16/2013
Pretty terrifying reading it makes too, hammering home the point that QE has been extremely beneficial to indebted governments and other borrowers, but on the whole very damaging to households, particularly elderly ones reliant on fixed income forms of sa
11/16/2013
Recent data continue to point to signs of an improving recovery in the UK
11/14/2013
Standard Life launches study of successful adviser businesses
Standard Life today launches A Measure of Success, an in-depth study of best practice in market leading financial advice firms.
11/14/2013
Coutts' commentary - Wealth Watch - Demand grows for physical gold
The latest quarterly report from the World Gold Council shows that demand for gold fell in the third-quarter, in large part due to redemptions of ETF holdings.
11/14/2013
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading” - Lao Tzu
11/14/2013
When the First World War broke out, an interesting meeting took place in the City to assess its implications.
11/13/2013
The Christmas gift that keeps on giving (or taking) by David Wilson
We all love a bargain when we’re Christmas shopping, but be warned – additional tax costs could mean your bargain prezzie ends up with a price tag more Prada than Primark…
11/13/2013
Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the CFA European Investment Conference. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.