01/16/2012
THE GIFT OF FORESIGHT? NO – THE REALITY OF RETURNS
At the start of the year all the investment houses like to roll out their investment plans with such confidence and aplomb.
01/16/2012
At the start of the year all the investment houses like to roll out their investment plans with such confidence and aplomb.
01/13/2012
Albert Edwards, head of strategy at Société Générale and a well-known market bear, said the next 12 months will be the "final year of pain and disappointment", the Guardian reports.
01/11/2012
When both the prime minister and his deputy are promising action to curb tax avoidance, we have to believe that the proposed General Anti-Abuse Rule is going to reach the statute book some time soon.
01/11/2012
There was a mass exodus from European and Emerging Market Equity funds during Q4 2011 according to Skandia’s latest Investment Trends report.
01/10/2012
I can only presume that most of the population must have comforted themselves with excessive amounts of alcohol to try and negate the seemingly unremitting gloom that was aired throughout the holiday period.
01/10/2012
The Ernst & Young Eurozone financial services forecast predicts that solvency will remain an acute concern throughout the region in 2012, despite the recent positive action taken by the European Central Bank.
01/09/2012
The biggest impact of all of this noise was that attention was diverted from what should have been accomplished in 2011. As
01/09/2012
The start of a new year always brings resolutions that are unlikely to be maintained much further than mid-January.
01/05/2012
In early October 2011, Baker Tilly commissioned YouGov to conduct our ‘Outlook 2012’ survey of the opinions of business decision-makers.
01/02/2012
The chief executive of Standard Chartered has warned that there is an increasing likelihood of a country falling out of the eurozone because of the inability of politicians to resolve the crisis.
12/30/2011
I have to say that I am sick to death of all the doom-mongers and depressants that seem to be continuously preaching to us at the moment.
12/26/2011
International investor Jim Rogers says he is short emerging markets including Singapore, where he now lives.
12/26/2011
Here's a sneak peek inside his bag of goodies, where lumps of coal appear to figure prominently:
11/30/2011
If the global financial crisis has taught the world anything, it’s that there is massive weakness running through western banking systems.
11/30/2011
Testosterone, rather than neurons, may push male egos into ever-more-complex speculative bets, a gambling binge made possible by advanced technology, mathematical techniques, and globalization.
10/12/2011
John Kay: Citing the banking crisis as an argument to prove Scotland could not be governed independently has no moral or legal foundation
09/26/2011
Aberdeen warning over lost decade
09/23/2011
The banker said Greece should just go ahead and let its banks default just like Iceland did.
09/23/2011
British diplomacy has been anchored in two alliances for the past 40 years: Europe and the United States.
09/22/2011
You expect to be caught in the first 24 hours. Every time the door to your office opens, or the phone rings, you think it will be somebody looking for answers.