09/05/2014
State pension 'unviable' for Generation Y
If you’re under 30 then you’ll need to pay for your own retirement, as one expert predicts the cost of the state pension is so unsustainable that it won’t exist in 30 years.
09/05/2014
UBS AG and Barclays Plc have pulled job offers and delayed start dates as banks toughen background checks after scandals heightened scrutiny of individuals’ behavior
09/04/2014
Dutch bank ABN AMRO has criticized a new report, The Fair Banking Guide, published by the Dutch BankWiser after an investigation into international tax avoidance in the Dutch banking sector.
09/02/2014
Total assets of the world’s largest 300 pension funds grew by over 6% in 2013 to reach a new high of almost US$15 trillion.
09/02/2014
New regulations governing the margining of non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives are rapidly being developed.
09/01/2014
As the Referendum on independence rolls towards us, sadly I feel that emotions are rising ahead of the logic on economic strength and capability.
09/01/2014
Much of what we think we know isn’t necessarily so.
08/31/2014
Customer complaints at Barclays fell by a quarter in the first half of 2014, the bank said on Friday, led by a decline in cases relating to the mis-selling of loan insurance. The bank said total complaints fell 26 percent year-on-year, dropping to 284,00
08/29/2014
Despite competition increasing in the past 12 months, 64% of managers of pooled hedge fund products reported their assets had increased
08/29/2014
Bonus payments in the UK rose to £40.5bn in the year to April, up almost five per cent on a year ago.
08/28/2014
UK, India and Pakistan top Dubai real estate investor list for start of 2014 as countdown begins for 13th edition of Cityscape Global
08/27/2014
Sixty-Two Percent of Respondents Expect Pension Scheme Members Will Keep Monies Invested via Flexible Drawdown Post Retirement; 25 Percent Believe Members Will Purchase an Annuity
08/27/2014
Wealth-X data shows there are 10,910 ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals (defined as those with at least US$30 million in net assets) in the UK with a combined net worth of US$1.38 trillion.
08/27/2014
One of them, Bank of London and the Middle East, doesn’t appear to have any hard feelings about it and applauds the rise in sovereign sukuks as they will help accelerate the development of the global Islamic finance market.
08/26/2014
The average advertised salary in July 2014 rose to £33,873, a 0.9% advance on the previous year.
08/26/2014
Poor Returns from Statistics
08/25/2014
It's easy to make simplistic comparisons, but this year I found a stark difference in attitude between what I saw in the French economy as opposed to that of Perfidious Albion on the other side of La Manche ('The Sleeve').
08/22/2014
European Hedge Funds
08/21/2014
The 28-page booklet summarises the themes that AIMA has explored since 2008 as it sought to demonstrate the value of the world’s hedge fund industry to investors, financial markets and the broader economy.
08/21/2014
The property sector has returned to the top of the IMA leader board, as the bestselling sector with the highest percentage of net sales in July, according to figures from Cofunds, the leading general investment platform in the UK.