03/21/2013
Over the past three years, at around this time, market sentiment has softened amid worries about rising tensions in Europe, slowing US growth and moderating Chinese activity. These themes have returned to the forefront, but with less intensity and with a
03/21/2013
George Osborne delivered a politically adept speech against a backdrop of grim economic news, introducing tax cuts for business, a boost for home buyers and help for the ‘squeezed middle’ at a net cost of £140m, avoiding the cardinal sin
03/20/2013
César Pérez, Chief Investment Strategist for Europe, Middle-East and Africa at J.P. Morgan Private Bank comments on the outlook for Cyprus
03/20/2013
"Britain is moving to low and competitive taxes. But we should insist people and businesses pay those taxes, not aggressively avoid them or evade them."
03/19/2013
BDO: Looming transaction tax is bad news for European fund management
The EU FTT is going to hit the European fund management industry hard.
03/19/2013
"While nature essentially controls the quantity of gold in existence, it is men who assign it values in terms of dollars and pounds and rubles."
03/19/2013
Parliament’s complete rejection of Cyprus’ bailout plan has sent policymakers back to the drawing board
03/19/2013
It has some symbolism impact on Europe, but it’s not a really major economic issue
03/19/2013
Commentary on the Budget 2013 from Louise Somerset, Tax Director, RBC Wealth Management
03/18/2013
ABN AMRO Private Banking builds on its previous overweight equities position in Staying the course – its new investment outlook for the second quarter of 2013 – published today.
03/18/2013
Dr Daniel Murray states, “The small size of the amounts involved with the Cypriot bailout suggest that, if the spill-over to the rest of Europe remains contained, then any sell off will be relatively short lived.”
03/17/2013
“Inspiration” – to stimulate (a person) to activity or creativity.
03/17/2013
“We admit that we doubted the zimbabweconomists who said “this will work, trust us, we’ve never been wrong theoretically,” but the wealth effect is working.
03/17/2013
The debate contained a fair amount of vilification of banks and bankers
03/17/2013
With the Budget less than a week away, in this edition of Baker Tilly’s weekly round-up of the most important tax news, we look at who the real winners and losers could be next Wednesday…
03/17/2013
The controversial bank bailout deal for Cyprus is unprecedented in that it penalises savers and junior bondholders. The images of frantic customers queuing outside branches in a desperate bid to withdraw their hard-earned savings highlights the precarious
03/17/2013
European Economic Weekly by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
03/17/2013
The choice is between hitting big depositors and hitting euro-zone taxpayers.
03/17/2013
For years, securing a generous final salary scheme and regularly paying large pension contributions was the aspiration of many – it was seen as a sure fire way to guarantee that on retirement, you’d see a return on decades of investment.
03/14/2013
The asset management shakeout
Growth in new money flows will slow to less than 1 percent annually for each of the next five years