12/20/2017
Wealth and Asset Management Firms Are Ahead of Banks in Race to Embrace New Technology
65% of respondents working on the buy-side believe technology is fundamental to the survival of their business
Comment, Analysis & Research
12/20/2017
Twelve Days of Christmas for Investors - Day 7 by Gary Dugan
The overriding need is it to improve the quality of global growth making it more inclusive and sustainable.
12/19/2017
Ming’s report on banks not so mighty
Irish MEP’s document asks whether ECB and Irish banks colluded to hide losses
12/19/2017
Twelve Days of Christmas for Investors - Day Six by Gary Dugan
Fixed Income: looking down the barrel of lower returns
12/19/2017
Is it possible to put a value on Bitcoin?
The geeky economist in us is inclined to say that we can, but the real world is often more complicated than models allow.
12/19/2017
St. James’s Place – 'For now, there is no stopping this bull market'
Bears – even a few bulls – worry that the current bull market is already mature.
12/19/2017
No tax haven, but this label can cost Malta untold harm
One can speculate that the EU was somewhat tolerant of Malta’s system when accepting our membership bid
12/19/2017
How Europe's top institutional managers will pay for research
Amundi will directly foot the bill for external investment research, as will several major Dutch asset managers
12/19/2017
German business confidence falls
Companies assessed their own current situation as better
12/18/2017
GUEST ARTICLE: Now where did I put those carrots?! by Penny Lovell
I’ve come up with a list of favourite Christmas things to do together, both at home and in London
12/18/2017
Twelve Days of Christmas for Investors - Day Five by Garry Dugan
Geopolitical risks for 2018
12/18/2017
Put a January investment ‘detox’ at the top of your New Year financial resolutions list - Jason Hollands, Tilney
With that in mind, Jason Hollands, Managing Director of Tilney, suggests eight New Year Resolutions savers and investors, anxious to get their finances in shape in 2018, might consider. And the good news is that while many of us break our Resolutions part
12/18/2017
Why investors must consider social responsibility - UBS
For 20 years I answered that question by citing the influential article, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits,” by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
12/18/2017
Retailers Positioned to Benefit as Banks Open Their Networks
The goal is to drive increased competition, innovation and transparency across the European payments market while enhancing the security of Internet payments and account access.
12/18/2017
Pay up! EU states told to increase contributions to cover £10.5 billion Brexit black hole
EUROPEAN countries should be prepared to cough up and increase their budget contributions to cover the financial black hole left by Brexit, the bloc’s farming chief said today.
12/18/2017
Why bullish managers are stockpiling cash
This is because Kumar says the FTSE 100 is the only equity market that has fallen since September, with no real shift in earnings outlook.
12/18/2017
Amundi latest to absorb research costs post-MiFID II
Amundi has now joined this group by making the decision to absorb external research costs, including for recently-acquired Pioneer Investments
12/16/2017
10 questions clients should ask their advisors by Gary Dugan
Fourth day of Christmas
12/15/2017
German economic boom to last until at least 2020: studies
The Kiel Institute for World Economy (IfW) arrived at a similar conclusion, lifting its forecast for GDP growth in 2018 from 2.2 percent to 2.5 percent.
12/15/2017
GUEST ARTICLE: Santa Is Putting Christmas On The Blockchain And Saving Billions
So, you think that you know all there is to know about Christmas?