12/10/2012
Women with a finance background are at a distinct advantage over men when applying for board roles, a new Cranfield report looking at women on boards reveals.
12/10/2012
For us, there is a wealth of neglected European ‘stars’, which are offering increasingly good value as fearful investors wait in the wings until the dust settles.”
12/09/2012
Probably the best investment marketing acronym of the past decade has to be the term BRIC or more recently BRICS with the addition of the S.
12/09/2012
Russell Napier has written the book on bear markets. Specifically, the book is titled ‘Anatomy of the Bear: lessons from Wall Street’s four great bottoms’, and it comes highly recommended.
12/09/2012
From 2000 to 2007, Europe’s big banks pulled off deal after deal across the single currency area.
12/09/2012
Check that you are not overexposed to bonds
12/06/2012
Katherine Nixon is chief investment officer for the personal financial services business at Northern Trust.
12/06/2012
The Government’s mission to create a safe financial system is “unrealistic” and is making the banks “uninvestable”, a group of Britain’s biggest investors has warned.
12/06/2012
The figures collected by LV suggest that British households do have plenty of room to manoeuvre in terms of cut-backs and financial management, but the professionals advocate a wholesale change of attitude with relation to life insurance in order to avoid
12/05/2012
The UK's pension fund industry is fragmented: there aren't that many huge pension funds with the resources
12/05/2012
HMRC surprised us all with the announcement earlier this week that more funding had been found for additional resources to clamp down on the tax dodgers.
12/05/2012
Wealth Management Survey Reveals Financial Firms Can Avoid Significant Wealth Attrition by Courting Younger Investors With Preferred Technology and Services
12/05/2012
We believe Wednesday’s Autumn Statement from UK Chancellor George Osborne leaves the UK on the right path, although with the economy stuck in the doldrums, a credit-rating downgrade remains a threat.
12/05/2012
The financial services sector scores lowest on both counts in the Right Management survey that reviewed performance in three key sectors
12/05/2012
Wealth Manager Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) has picked what it calls five winning and five losing strategies for 2013. Notably, the firm sees opportunities in US mortgaged-backed securities, emerging markets debt and gold.
12/04/2012
New research shows that awareness of ethical investments is growing, and almost half of us are likely to opt for them in the future
12/03/2012
London should be stripped of its status as Europe's main financial hub and sidelined to allow the eurozone to “control” transactions within the 17-nation bloc, the governor of the Bank of France has said.
12/03/2012
“What many investors currently perceive as safe haven assets could turn out to be the snake lurking in the grass next year.”
12/03/2012
According to the latest Adviser Barometer research from Aviva, in the final quarter before the Retail Distribution Review is implemented in January 2013, over a third of advisers (34%) say they are contemplating changing their main platform in the next 1
12/03/2012
“Investors head into 2013 knowing that few of the fundamental economic problems in the developed world have been solved – and many of them could remain unresolved throughout the year.