01/12/2014
RBS faces fury over bid to smash bonus curbs: Bailed-out bank wants rewards that are worth twice salaries
The bank, 80 per cent owned by the taxpayer following its 2008 bailout, is expected to revamp its pay policies after the European Union imposed a cap on banker bonuses.
01/09/2014
One year on from the RDR and 11 months in his present role, Conway says he is not surprised that the doomsday prediction of advisers deserting the industry en masse failed to materialise.
01/07/2014
Warren Buffett, ‘How inflation swindles the equity investor’, May 1977.
01/06/2014
Furthermore, just 12 per cent of respondents believe that regulators fully understand how the financial crisis happened in the first place.
01/06/2014
The residents of the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are preparing themselves for what, for many, could be the first sizeable bonuses since the start of the crisis.
01/06/2014
Asset managers should be adopting a simple New Year’s resolution for 2014. Speak up.
01/06/2014
Still plenty of reasons to hold gold
01/06/2014
Now that the New Year is here, we can look with hindsight at a festive stockmarket phenomenon: the so-called 'Santa Claus Rally'.
01/06/2014
More than a third (35%) of global financial services professionals working in banks, asset management and hedge funds believe that executives should be held criminally liable for the actions of staff.
01/06/2014
Alliance Trust Savings last week announced it would be increasing its fees by up to 87 per cent from February. Its pricing revisions included some dealing discounts for long-term customers.
01/02/2014
Gold had a tumultuous run in 2013 but don't expect any respite in the new year
01/02/2014
Bridging the Gap
01/02/2014
The past year has been an extraordinary investment year with exceptional returns on developed markets equities.
12/31/2013
What will happen in 2014? The Chinese economy will slow; the price of oil will sink; Germany will slide into recession; the EU will remain intact and the internet will begin to Balkanise
12/31/2013
Latvia's arrival in the eurozone is testament to the Baltic state's success at pushing through structural reform
12/31/2013
Advisers and investors have unprecedented opportunity to influence price and service, platform says.
12/30/2013
The thrill hasn’t gone from the technology sector, as Twitter’s recent stockmarket float proves. But technology investment faces an inherent challenge: its limited shelf life.
12/26/2013
Country focused on finding ways out of the crisis and thus save the economy from total collapse
12/24/2013
Even if Bitcoin fails, cryptocurrencies are here to stay
Is paper money headed for obsolescence, swept aside by the meteoric rise of Bitcoin?
12/23/2013
Standard Chartered’s finance director talks about unfair levies, the different image of banking in the East and the charity that binds his group