11/07/2013
JPMorgan CEO tells staff: 'Don’t exaggerate, don’t ruminate, don’t bullshit'
'We all need to keep a higher standard', Dimon said at the 28th October meeting.
Comment, Analysis & Research
11/07/2013
Cut and Pasted! - Neil Staines ECU
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11/06/2013
Global Perspective from Standard Life Investments - A broader vision of competitiveness
What is needed is a radical productivity agenda to raise potential growth. Trade performance is therefore just one small piece of the competitiveness puzzle.”
11/06/2013
One hundred big banks could go, warns McKinsey
A fifth of the largest global banks coud be broken up or bought within the next few years
11/06/2013
One hundred big banks could go, warns McKinsey
A fifth of the largest global banks coud be broken up or bought within the next few years
11/05/2013
Original 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson tells story of how he bought down Barings Bank
NICK Leeson was just 25 when he landed the job of a lifetime, trading futures on the Singapore stock exchange.
11/05/2013
A Cut in Hell's Chance? By Neil Staines
"Never cut what you can untie” Joseph Joubert
11/05/2013
SEI Guide Offers Insights for European Managers Targeting US Market
SEI today released the "Nine Key Considerations for European Managers Approaching the US Market
11/04/2013
Time for Old Mutual to return to the sunshine
Despite all the easier access to this capital in London, which was clearly aimed at growing the business, Old Mutual has nothing special to show.
11/04/2013
Risks have faded but have investors become complacent? - Rothschild Market Perspective November 2013
Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.
11/04/2013
OECD: Economic crisis hits trust in governments
The financial crisis of the past few years has severely sapped confidence in government around the globe
11/04/2013
Britons happier than before financial crisis as contentment plummets in Europe – OECD
OECD says quality of life in the UK has been only “modestly affected” by the global financial crisis with happiness and even trust in government rising
11/03/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia -"Dollar Squeeze"
Markets have a habit of telling you they’re going to do something, after which they wait a while until you’re no longer looking, and then they hit you.
11/03/2013
Asset Outlook – GAM DFM team
Charles Hepworth, the investment director responsible for GAM’s DFM business, shares his insights into the various asset classes to love and leave
11/03/2013
Investor body UKSIF supports Government reponse to Kay Review
Investor body welcomes Government support for reshaping capital markets but highlights ‘missed opportunity’ on ESG issues
11/03/2013
Where the world's wealthy went to university
The largest survey ever produced on how the wealthy were educated
10/31/2013
UK creates create transparency benchmark against which other countries will be judged by George Bull
While the UK will not on its own succeed in achieving global change, it creates a benchmark against which other countries will be judged.
10/31/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch: ECB to loosen up
Thursday’s eurozone data, showing very low inflation and unemployment stuck at a record high, stresses the need for greater stimulus.
10/30/2013
ECB’s Draghi signals time is up for Eurozone banks
In the UK, banks have been making the long haul back to recovery for a number of years, and are finally beginning to emerge from the shadow of their impaired book of bad loans.
10/30/2013
Sins of past, present and future haunt banks
The cost to banks of cleaning up past misdeeds has soared over USD 100 billion and is leaving lenders running scared from areas that put them in potential danger of upsetting regulators.