04/15/2014
ML Capital Asset Management is reporting high levels of demand for both European and US long/short equity funds this quarter, with a healthy swing towards UK equity strategies.
04/15/2014
What’s going to happen to Barclays investment bank when it presents its new plan in June? Tushar Morzaria, the bank’s chief financial officer who took the job six months ago, admitted to analysts in February that its future is not entirely cle
04/15/2014
Yorkshire attracts HNW's as commercial property investment leaps to £1 billion
Wealthy foreign investors spent nearly £1 billion buying up chunks of commercial property in the Yorkshire region over the last two years when London failed to hit the mark for price.
04/15/2014
7 changes to asset management operating models
04/15/2014
Britons who stand to inherit sizable sums from their affluent parents are becoming more and more likely to use it to cover the rising cost of living, rather than saving it or using it to buy property.
04/14/2014
It was 1968, and Farouk al-Kasim was struggling with an important decision
04/14/2014
Elections are strange beasts.
04/14/2014
He says: “This is a reflection of the still very accommodative stance surrounding markets at the moment from liquidity and low interest rate policy.
04/11/2014
The Investment Management Association is to merge with the Investment Affairs Division of the Association of British Insurers.
04/11/2014
The state is home to Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Europe’s biggest investment bank by revenue, which has repeatedly said a split would drive up costs for clients and hurt European banks’ ability to compete with U.S. firms.
04/10/2014
Kenneth Haar from Corporate Europe Observatory says: “The crisis revealed a clear need for stronger rules on financial markets. But reform has proved difficult, and these numbers are an important part of the explanation. The financial lobby's f
04/10/2014
How easy is it to trip up in tax? A recent case shows that even the simple things can be confusing to the taxpayer, and he pays the penalty.
04/10/2014
Seven years ago, relatively few people outside of financial services had probably heard of Lehman Brothers, certainly in the UK.
04/09/2014
Alternative managers also had higher operating profits
04/09/2014
The president of the German central bank warned on Monday that the credibility of the euro zone's budgetary rules was at stake and that France's suggestion that the bloc's budget deficit targets be weakened are a "test case" for t
04/09/2014
Only one in 20 investors commit their money to investment products for ten years or more, and most intend to allocate just 13 per cent to high-growth assets like equities, claims a report from Schroders.
04/08/2014
This is not a large figure in proportion to the overall global economy
04/08/2014
Fund managers and brokers are often highly profitable
04/08/2014
Global default rates may be low, but that should not blind investors to the risk of companies issuing high-yield bonds going bust, according to fund managers.
04/07/2014
The sector has the potential to amplify pro-cyclical swings in the financial system and wider economy, giving a false picture of the price of risk.