04/14/2013
HMRC has shocked investors by announcing that from 6 April, all sleeping and inactive limited partners will be required to pay NICs. But on closer inspection, we ask if HMRC has got it right, or is it a decision based on ‘shaky foundations’?
04/14/2013
While there is certainly room for a technical bounce, the risks still seem weighed toward the downside in the short term.
04/11/2013
If I’d told you a year ago that global stock markets could go materially higher
04/09/2013
Margaret Thatcher oversaw a revolution in the way people invested in the stock market and property
04/09/2013
My objective in coming here today is to discuss the euro crisis
04/08/2013
‘Rich list’ data leak shows information more valuable than gold
“Wherever valuable, sensitive information is stored, it should come as no surprise that others – for whatever their reasons - will try to obtain this information.
04/07/2013
“Investors around the world may not be in a position to access boutique managers as easily as the big firms. As a consequence of the crisis, many distributors prefer well-known names, because it is easier to pick up a strong brand recognised by inve
04/07/2013
Time to scotch the myth around bankers' bonuses
I was pleased to hear the City grandee lawyer Anthony Salz, right, in his independent review of Barclays' corporate culture last week, echo a point that I've been making for some time about bankers' pay.
04/07/2013
Surely it is a given - the demand for oil will continue to rise. As the emerging and developing nations seek to grow - and consume a greater proportion of world energy - then this has to be a one way street?
04/04/2013
The World's Top 20 Green Banks in 2012
The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.
04/04/2013
The Public Investment Bank has a difficult task at hand: To revive the French industrial sector
04/04/2013
VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly
Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’
04/04/2013
Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.
04/03/2013
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
04/03/2013
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/02/2013
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/01/2013
Shakespeare the 'hard-headed businessman' uncovered
A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food
04/01/2013
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
03/31/2013
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees