04/09/2013
Baroness Thatcher: how she transformed a nation's finances
Margaret Thatcher oversaw a revolution in the way people invested in the stock market and property
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/09/2013
George Soros: how to save the EU from the euro crisis - the speech in full
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
Boutiques stage fightback
“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
A Game Changer?
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
French bank reveals aims amid media criticism
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.’
04/04/2013
Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life
Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.
04/03/2013
Big pay ‘made Barclays bosses feel above rules’
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
04/03/2013
HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/02/2013
Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/01/2013
Shakespeare the 'hard-headed businessman' uncovered
A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food
04/01/2013
How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
03/31/2013
Off target
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees
03/31/2013
Schroders ‘set for the premier league’
Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.
03/31/2013
Banks still being too risky, say executives
Just 43pc of executives said they were completely confident their banks were taking acceptable risks
03/28/2013
Sanlam’s Speirs looks to follow in footsteps of SJP and Towry
Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.