04/16/2013
Security over Art
A number of particular issues and difficulties arise for lenders in taking security over art as opposed to other assets, especially in relation to art owned by natural persons.
04/16/2013
FATCA: better news for Lenders
FATCA was introduced by the US legislators to counter tax evasion by US tax payers holding assets outside the US
04/16/2013
Gold, What’s happened? - Rothschild Wealth Management
Gold is now dramatically underperforming other assets and it is one of the few with negative performance (in US dollar terms) over the past twelve months.
04/15/2013
Key data and events this week (15 April 2013)
04/14/2013
For those expecting a blog about Raquel Welch I can only apologise.
04/14/2013
Treasuring our Treasure
Learning to treasure our successful industries has never been a great trait in the United Kingdom.
04/14/2013
The 2013 Eurofi Seminar took place in Dublin on "Building financial regulation to foster stability and growth", in association with the Irish EU presidency.
04/14/2013
In the five years since the onset of the global financial crisis, markets, economies, and the authorities have taken many opportunities to surprise and confuse investors
04/14/2013
HMRC has shocked investors by announcing that from 6 April, all sleeping and inactive limited partners will be required to pay NICs. But on closer inspection, we ask if HMRC has got it right, or is it a decision based on ‘shaky foundations’?
04/14/2013
While there is certainly room for a technical bounce, the risks still seem weighed toward the downside in the short term.
04/11/2013
If I’d told you a year ago that global stock markets could go materially higher
04/09/2013
Margaret Thatcher oversaw a revolution in the way people invested in the stock market and property
04/09/2013
My objective in coming here today is to discuss the euro crisis
04/08/2013
‘Rich list’ data leak shows information more valuable than gold
“Wherever valuable, sensitive information is stored, it should come as no surprise that others – for whatever their reasons - will try to obtain this information.
04/07/2013
“Investors around the world may not be in a position to access boutique managers as easily as the big firms. As a consequence of the crisis, many distributors prefer well-known names, because it is easier to pick up a strong brand recognised by inve
04/07/2013
Time to scotch the myth around bankers' bonuses
I was pleased to hear the City grandee lawyer Anthony Salz, right, in his independent review of Barclays' corporate culture last week, echo a point that I've been making for some time about bankers' pay.
04/07/2013
Surely it is a given - the demand for oil will continue to rise. As the emerging and developing nations seek to grow - and consume a greater proportion of world energy - then this has to be a one way street?
04/04/2013
The World's Top 20 Green Banks in 2012
The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.
04/04/2013
The Public Investment Bank has a difficult task at hand: To revive the French industrial sector
04/04/2013
VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly
Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’