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
10/03/2013
Banks learn the hard way in wealth arena
WEALTH management was seen as one of the great Australian growth industries of the 21st century.
10/03/2013
Money tends to flow to markets with better infrastructure and liquidity
10/03/2013
HMRC’s Swiss Tax initiative - running out of steam? by Mike Down
Last week HMRC wrote to everyone affected by the UK/Switzerland tax agreement asking them to come clean as to whether they owe tax or not.
10/03/2013
UK Disclosure facilities
10/02/2013
Our portfolios are slowly becoming more cyclical
10/02/2013
BNP Paribas has ruled out big takeovers like Commerzbank as it builds its presence in specialised banking businesses in Germany over the next three years
10/01/2013
Who would want to be a bank boss?
10/01/2013
Despite limits to potential upside, equities remain preferred asset class as markets enjoy abundant liquidity
10/01/2013
The looming spectre preying on investors’ nerves is the possibility that the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its quantitative easing programme.
10/01/2013
Market reaction to the shutdown was muted according to Lowcock, because the current budget negotiations are viewed as merely a ‘warm-up act’ for the negotiations later this month to extend the US government’s debt ceiling from the curre