04/14/2013
Treasuring our Treasure
Learning to treasure our successful industries has never been a great trait in the United Kingdom.
Comment, Analysis & Research
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.
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