09/29/2013
Asset Allocation Update: A Case for Europe?
Despite there being much to consider over the last few months
Comment, Analysis & Research
09/29/2013
Horlick Looks North for EIS Opportunities
Horlick is highly regarded in the finance industry - in the 1990s she balanced a high-flying finance career with bringing up a large family. Today she manages investments for Rockpool Investments, produces films and sits on the board of an NHS trust.
09/28/2013
We need strong banks with good balance sheets
The authorities’ effective crisis management reflected their acute awareness that banks were highly indebted
09/28/2013
Lessons from Norway
A look at the Norwegian Oil Fund, one of the world’s largest Sovereign Wealth Funds, might prove instructive for Israel.
09/26/2013
Global wealth management: banks’ panacea or failing dream?
It’s not clear whether they’re based on differences in opinion about future growth in emerging markets
09/26/2013
Wealth manager outlook: welcome to the 20mph recovery
We are probably judging economic growth by the wrong scale
09/26/2013
Global Wealth Report: Equity boom spurs asset growth
Allianz unveiled the fourth edition of its “Global Wealth Report”, which puts the asset and debt situation of private households in more than 50 countries under the microscope.
09/25/2013
Nicola Horlick: "Crowdfunding is a drug going straight into the lifeblood of the economy"
City Superwoman Nicola Horlick is a crowdfunding convert following the success of her recent project on Seedrs, raising £150,000
09/25/2013
Chief Secretary announces Government action on tax avoidance by George Bull
Danny Alexander’s surprise announcement last week, and why it’s about time the Government acknowledged that once again, it’s got to the wrong place but for some of the right reasons.
09/25/2013
It is the regulators who now pose the biggest threats to financial stability
Try as you might, it’s hard to feel any sympathy for Britain’s banks.
09/25/2013
EMIR timeline push-backs: blessing or curse?
The European Securities and Markets Authority has done it again.
09/24/2013
Trust Me With Your Data, I’m A Banker
Consumers exercise a worrying lack of caution when it comes to sharing their personal data, as 17.5% of Brits say they would flog their own data for £5000
09/24/2013
Jersey’s finance industry contributes some 40% of total GVA
Jersey Finance has issued the following comment in response to the latest economic performance figures to be issued by the States of Jersey.
09/23/2013
Keeping the markets guessing - HSBC Private Bank
Deferred, not discarded
09/23/2013
What has been troubling emerging markets? - Schroders
Schroders’ Allan Conway, Head of Emerging Market Equities, takes a look at why emerging markets (GEMs) have underperformed developed markets over the last three years, whether the trend will change and what has been discounted in equity markets.
09/22/2013
There are times when the French seem to do a far better impersonation of Eeyore than we do
Depressed, lugubrious, and always assuming the worst; normally that is a good reflection of the British domestic attitude to life.
09/22/2013
Revenge of the Nerds
Equity markets are showing the most promising prospects
09/22/2013
Five Years On: The New Regulators
The 2008 financial crisis sent shockwaves around the world, prompting the government to reconsider the way the financial industry is regulated.
09/19/2013
Tax avoidance – but who are the real goodies and baddies? by George Bull
The old days were great – you were either a goodie or a baddie – and that was it. Simple. But in the new world of tax, we just can’t work out who’s who any more…
09/19/2013
City Broker’s Ethical Investment Comments ‘Ill-Informed and Naive’
Comments made about the alleged poor performance of sustainable investment funds by a leading asset manager have been described as “ill-informed and naive” by the industry’s trade body.