04/20/2013
Angela Merkel rejects ECB findings on German wealth
"Be careful: Statistics are misleading"
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/20/2013
Wealth reaches new peaks
The Rich List celebrates its 25th year at a record £450bn high
04/18/2013
Barclays tries out trendy joint rule
Forget the predictable departures of Mr Ricci and the former head of Barclays Wealth, Tom Kalaris.
04/17/2013
Do you work in bed? Almost a third of Brits do!
Over 1 in 5 people who work in bed spend 14 hours a week doing so and admit to checking their emails before kissing their partner!
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
Global Markets Weekly
Key data and events this week (15 April 2013)
04/14/2013
Death of the Dinosaurs by Toby Birch
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
Triple deleveraging and schizophrenic regulation by Eric Chaney, AXA Group Chief Economist
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
We're living in interesting times -Mark Burgess, CIO, Threadneedle Investments
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
NIC wake-up call for sleeping partner
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
Gold digging a deeper hole - Coutts
While there is certainly room for a technical bounce, the risks still seem weighed toward the downside in the short term.
04/11/2013
St Valentine’s Day Massacre by Tim Gregory, Head of Global Equities, Psigma Investment Management
If I’d told you a year ago that global stock markets could go materially higher
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
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.