09/23/2013
Schroders’ Allan Conway, Head of Emerging Market Equities, takes a look at why emerging markets (GEMs) have underperformed developed markets over the last three years, whether the trend will change and what has been discounted in equity markets.
09/22/2013
Depressed, lugubrious, and always assuming the worst; normally that is a good reflection of the British domestic attitude to life.
09/22/2013
Equity markets are showing the most promising prospects
09/22/2013
The 2008 financial crisis sent shockwaves around the world, prompting the government to reconsider the way the financial industry is regulated.
09/19/2013
The old days were great – you were either a goodie or a baddie – and that was it. Simple. But in the new world of tax, we just can’t work out who’s who any more…
09/19/2013
Comments made about the alleged poor performance of sustainable investment funds by a leading asset manager have been described as “ill-informed and naive” by the industry’s trade body.
09/17/2013
More than half of financial advisers are ready to invest overseas
09/16/2013
We're obviously disappointed with the results of the Move Your Money survey," said a spokeswoman for Barclays
09/15/2013
Good news - companies have been sitting on a lot of cash: bad news - they haven't been spending it.
09/15/2013
UniCredit Bank Austria said its business was largely unaffected by market turmoil in Turkey and Slovenia as investors fled from high-yield assets in anticipation of the U.S. Federal Reserve scaling back its stimulus package.
09/12/2013
15th September 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
09/11/2013
Is tax avoidance by multinational corporations a ‘soft’ issue or a ‘hard’ one?
09/10/2013
A lack of customer confidence is the biggest challenge facing the banking sector, according to a survey carried out by the CISI, five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
09/10/2013
In the latest edition of Global Horizons Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, examines how investors can use behavioural finance to improve their understanding of markets and enhance decision making.
09/09/2013
These days the pages of the trade press are awash with stories about individual fund managers.
09/08/2013
As an investment rhyme it is about as reliable as trying to bet on the winner itself.
09/08/2013
“We have to turn the page on the bubble-and-bust mentality that created this mess. - President Obama, weekly radio address, August 10, 2013.
09/08/2013
Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc today launches its annual Evolving Criteria report, which reviews the latest developments in rating agency protocol and impact for the insurance industry in the Europe, Mid
09/08/2013
Since May/June 2013, many emerging market currencies have fallen against the dollar, some dramatically so (source: Bloomberg):
09/05/2013
They face tougher regulations than their smaller competitors because of the greater damage their failure could cause