10/14/2013
The problems in the US are only symptomatic of the trials and tribulations being seen in many G-7 countries as they attempt to cut the burden of government debt.
10/14/2013
Hope and history - St. James's Place
History is not a guide to future performance, but that rarely stops financial markets and investors from glancing back in the hope of gleaning what might lie ahead.
10/14/2013
Market timing, although scoffed at by many as impossible or pointless, has taken on far greater importance in the last few years
10/14/2013
The latest high-profile victim of stress and exhaustion comes just days after the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development /Simplyhealth annual absence survey
10/13/2013
Bravo start ups
10/13/2013
Credit Suisse has been among the most aggressive banks in paring back its fixed income, currency and commodities trading business after the financial crisis.
10/13/2013
Less than half of all finance professionals at UK companies think the forecasts they rely on are reliable
10/10/2013
Stock and fixed-income ETFs have made this relatively easy.
10/10/2013
Norris “positively enthused by the potential for a positive earnings surprise amongst a select number of stocks in the banking sector”
10/09/2013
With the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development now working on plans to tackle international tax avoidance by multi-national corporations, and summer rapidly turning to autumn in the UK, we expect to see a change in emphasis in the Great Ta
10/09/2013
The IMF has confirmed what much of the economic news in the past few months has been telling us. In the ebb and flow of global economics, the developed world has been riding up the crest of a wave. But emerging markets, to continue the maritime analogy, h
10/09/2013
Financial industry executives routinely use index products to benchmark their investment performance, but the majority of users are unhappy with the license restrictions and overall value they receive from index providers.
10/08/2013
The paper also discussed how factors such as volatility, inflation, growth, interest rates, currencies and correlations may drive returns in the short term as well as in the long run.
10/08/2013
Economic adviser to the Mayor of London Dr Gerald Lyons believes the UK economy needs to decentralise in order for further growth to take place.
10/08/2013
Pooled funds will struggle to justify charges as pensions and insurers demand separate accounts
10/08/2013
A story emerged this week that is likely to fuel tension between the European Central Bank and Europe’s current banking regulator, the European Banking Authority.
10/07/2013
Europe has an irresistible appeal for many Russians but after repeated rebuffs by the West, Moscow is coming around to the view that BRICS makes a better bedfellow.
10/06/2013
The latest „Help to Buy‟ plans, much vaunted by our esteemed politicians at their party conference last week, seems to have been not quite as popular with some of the banks as had originally been implied.
10/06/2013
While the US political impasse may provide further disruption to the market, we very much doubt that the government will default on its debt obligations. It has left all non-essential government activities closed.
10/06/2013
Bank of England governor's move to persuade markets that interest rates will not immediately rise has provoked scepticism