07/13/2013
The SEC, having feasted upon the flesh of Swiss bankers, stood upright, wiped its blood-stained mouth on the back of its hand, cleared its throat, spat, pulled up its collar against the bitter north wind, and chuckling softly under its breath, slipped uns
07/10/2013
ING IM expects key short-term interest rates to stay low for a prolonged period as monetary policy remains accommodative until the private sector revives
07/10/2013
"You never truly appreciate the value of a properly hedged Absolute Return fund until a market puke, the like of which we witnessed in June"
07/10/2013
READERS may remember Seven Investment Management co-founder Justin Urquhart Stewart as the fund manager who chatted sock colours with the new Bank of England boss Mark Carney on the central line last week
07/09/2013
Daniel Ben-Ami examines the moral offensive against tax avoidance and the part played by offshore centres.
07/09/2013
The gap between rich and poor has narrowed over the past year, according to a long-running survey tracking the issue.
07/08/2013
Ministers reject several recommendations of the commission set up to prevent future bailouts
07/08/2013
Carney: a roar not a whimper Words, as central bankers and markets know, can have a devastating effect.
07/08/2013
Our aim is not to be a separate investment bank from Erste Group
07/07/2013
It is difficult to know quite where to start in extolling the virtues of this semi-mythical godlike being who has just descended to earth to take up his new position at the central bank of the United Kingdom.
07/07/2013
For those who know me, they will understand that I am a big fan of trains and am often to be found enjoying an afternoon’s heavy shunting somewhere outside Newark
07/07/2013
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses “forward guidance”, the “Spending Round 2013” and some encouraging economic news.
07/06/2013
The herd is selling gold – so should you be buying, asks Richard Dyson.
07/04/2013
Charities are exempt from SDLT on purchases of property which they are to use either in their charitable work
07/03/2013
Speech by Clive Adamson, Director of Supervision, the FCA, at the APCIMS Compliance Conference, London.
07/02/2013
The Q2 2013 performance estimates for the ARC Private Client Indices and ARC Charity Indices are now available.
07/02/2013
Standard & Poor's announced that it is cutting the credit ratings of three major European banks: Credit Suisse, Barclays and Deutsche Bank.
06/30/2013
The major central banks have made small policy mistakes over the past month, but the good news is that they are reminding investors they are in no rush to head for the exits.
06/30/2013
Well what a week.
06/30/2013
“For all its problems and excesses,” he writes, “the credit-boom era was still better than the current nightmare of having asset prices effectively set by governments.”