05/24/2016
For the 12 banks as a whole, the Investment Banking division saw a 25 percent drop in revenues to $7.8 billion in the first quarter from the same period last year
05/24/2016
On alert
05/24/2016
This points to favouring a good business, with opportunity to deploy the cash it generates. A contrarian approach can help identify good entry points to buy these types of shares.
05/24/2016
The draw for SWFs, increasingly facing calls from governments to help fund budget deficits, is simply the yield that private debt offers.
05/24/2016
The report concludes that the platforms "will not be significant players in terms of overall volume or share."
05/24/2016
Banks have faced a welter of new regulation since the financial crisis, burdening them with new costs and making them more cautious. Lenders have also been fined hefty sums for breaching anti money-laundering rules.
05/23/2016
It’s said that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella weren’t particularly impressed when Christopher Columbus returned from his voyage to America and presented the royal couple with this strange new ‘cacao’ bean.
05/23/2016
The brokerage blamed the problems affecting the sector on listed hedge funds’ reputation for high fees, poor performance and limited transparency.
05/23/2016
As more common people become first-time buyers of gold coins, counterfeiters have invested in sophisticated means to fool them with fakes.
05/23/2016
Over 72,000 payments made every minute in the UK last year
05/23/2016
The Paris Agreement has provided a major incentive for carbon intensive companies to assess and report on the risks and opportunities facing their organisations as a result of climate change. Investors like Rathbone Greenbank are now bringing the realitie
05/23/2016
Value investing works. Buy bargains.” - Seth Klarman
05/23/2016
Asset managers, including a cohort of UK managers, are also looking into employing the technology to trade directly with each other, cutting out traditional middlemen such as brokers and bringing their costs down in the process.
05/23/2016
Athens is at another pinch point.
05/23/2016
The Bank reduces growth forecasts, as the Governor warns on Brexit by Ruth Lea
Latest UK data were mixed. The labour report was consistent with a slowing economy, the March production data were poor and the March trade deficit increased. But April’s retail sales were buoyant and the housing market looks firm.
05/23/2016
The findings come against a tumultuous market backdrop, with statistics from the Investment Association showing a total of £463m
05/22/2016
Value stocks are currently under owned in Europe however James Sym, European Equities Fund Manager, comments that signs of a pick-up in inflation could see their underperformance reverse:
05/22/2016
So, whatever his political background, the Mayor must ensure that our areas of success and effectiveness are not just protected, but promoted and enhanced.
05/20/2016
And herein lies the looming crisis for the industry: according to a 2015 report by PwC, asset attrition rates exceed 50% in intergenerational transfers of wealth.
05/19/2016
Swiss bank UBS raised on Wednesday its growth forecasts for Germany, France and Spain for the current year, but lowered its expectations for Italy.