03/17/2013
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Comment, Analysis & Research
03/17/2013
Ask Vince Cable
“We admit that we doubted the zimbabweconomists who said “this will work, trust us, we’ve never been wrong theoretically,” but the wealth effect is working.
03/17/2013
The Politification of Banks
The debate contained a fair amount of vilification of banks and bankers
03/17/2013
Budget 2013 – it’s time to get personal
With the Budget less than a week away, in this edition of Baker Tilly’s weekly round-up of the most important tax news, we look at who the real winners and losers could be next Wednesday…
03/17/2013
Unprecedented bank bailout deal brings unwanted twist to the eurozone crisis The controversial bank bailout deal for Cyprus
The controversial bank bailout deal for Cyprus is unprecedented in that it penalises savers and junior bondholders. The images of frantic customers queuing outside branches in a desperate bid to withdraw their hard-earned savings highlights the precarious
03/17/2013
No government, no OMT: what can the ECB do?
European Economic Weekly by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
03/17/2013
Cyprus - Pau Morilla-Giner, CIO, London & Capital gives his view
The choice is between hitting big depositors and hitting euro-zone taxpayers.
03/17/2013
Putting money into a pension? Invest in gold instead!
For years, securing a generous final salary scheme and regularly paying large pension contributions was the aspiration of many – it was seen as a sure fire way to guarantee that on retirement, you’d see a return on decades of investment.
03/14/2013
The asset management shakeout
Growth in new money flows will slow to less than 1 percent annually for each of the next five years
03/14/2013
Amundi - Cross Asset Investment Strategy - March 2013
A striking display of vulnerability and tension but not necessarily a reversal in trends.
03/13/2013
The thrill is gone from "The Fear Index" - Coutts
So perhaps there will more reasons to be happy in 2013.
03/13/2013
Brown Advisory's Paul Chew unconvinced by continued run on European equities
Yet we remain unconvinced that European equities will continue their strong run.
03/13/2013
How do DUTCH institutions invest into hedge funds and alternative investments?
The Netherlands is a leading financial center in the heart of Europe, with hedge funds and alternative asset managers ranging from start-up size to $10bn.
03/12/2013
Bankers must change their culture to give consumers a fair deal
The Financial Services Consumer Panel has highlighted a lack of professional ethics and blamed an ethical failure for many of the recent banking scandals.
03/12/2013
Calls to break up RBS ‘too late’, says 7IM’s Stewart
Mervyn King’s calls to break up RBS ‘too little, too late’, says 7IM’s Urquhart Stewart.
03/11/2013
British banks may have £30bn hidden losses
HSBC, which is the biggest bank by assets, was shown to have £10.4bn of hidden losses
03/11/2013
Professional job opportunities increase by 8% compared to February 2012
Month-on-month there was a 6% decrease in job availability in February 2013.
03/11/2013
Rothschild Market Perspective: Impact of currency price movements: a blessing or a headache?
Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.
03/11/2013
TIM Group Announces Top Performing Brokerage Firms and Salespeople in Europe
TIM Group today reported results of the TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards 2012 for the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, identifying the best institutional equity salespeople and their brokerage firms in the combined region.
03/10/2013
Coutts - Wealth Watch - Stock-market highs a downer for gold
Gold also remains more attractive than other traditional stores of value such as government bonds.