02/10/2014
Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds
02/10/2014
London's high-end retailers enjoyed a boom in spending by Chinese customers over the first weekend of February as tourists flocked to the capital for Chinese New Year, according to the latest figures from payments firm WorldPay.
02/10/2014
The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.
02/10/2014
We suspect that new Fed chairman Janet Yellen would not want to significantly change policy at her first meeting in March.
02/10/2014
REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies
02/10/2014
"Generals always fight the last war."
02/07/2014
Following the tragic death of an intern in Bank of America’s London unit, banks have announced new guidelines that will prevent senior executives from working their junior employees literally to death.
02/07/2014
Credit Suisse Group AG has been affected by the slump in emerging markets this year as conditions worsened
02/06/2014
Top hedge fund bets on Danish debt crisis
Denmark became Scandinavia's weakest economy after a housing bubble that burst in 2008
02/06/2014
Deutsche, which told staff about bonuses on Wednesday, said last week total pay in its corporate banking & securities division was 5.3 billion euros for 2013, down 14.4 pct from 2012.
02/06/2014
Equities more attractive than other asset classes; portfolio hedges increased as valuations stretched
02/06/2014
Three good reasons to close or merge funds: performance, profitability, pointlessness
02/05/2014
Legendary investor Sir John Templeton once said: "It is impossible to produce a superior performance unless you do something different from the majority." No one encapsulates this more than Richard Buxton, one of the most successful fund manager
02/05/2014
Global pension fund assets have now grown at over 6.7% on average per annum (in USD) since 2003.
02/05/2014
Tinker, Taper, Soldier ... Slide? by Neil Staines, Head of Trading and Execution, ECU
Does the equity market dig in and soldier on from its current level ... or slide further?
02/05/2014
Standard Life Investments have today issued a report with practical recommendations to stimulate change and build momentum for improvements to build on the success of the UK’s Stewardship Code and raise the bar from compliance to excellence.
02/04/2014
The revolutionary changes sweeping jurisdictions like the UK with their "Tesco law" changes have begun to radically alter the way in which law firms are structured and owned.
02/04/2014
The risk is most acute for six European banks BBVA, Erste Bank, HSBC, Santander, Standard Chartered, and UniCredit according to analysts.
02/04/2014
While there are undoubtedly strains in some emerging markets, to read the headlines would suggest there was a pending meltdown.
02/04/2014
Abu Dhabi investment fund Aabar has been approached to invest in the world’s oldest bank, Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena