06/25/2012
The Eurozone debt crisis is considered by the overwhelming majority of financial advisers and investment intermediaries in the UK to be the most significant threat to global growth over the next six months.
06/24/2012
As the summer of sport continues with Wimbledon and the thoughts of hopeful executives turn to corporate hospitality, budget holders might wish to consider the full cost of the swing tags, dining vouchers and ground passes that they hand out. What is the
06/24/2012
The past week has highlighted the efforts that some high profile characters go to in order to avoid - and possibly evade - their tax responsibilities.
06/24/2012
A great deal has been written about the advantages of cloud-based systems, but what about the disadvantages?
06/24/2012
The head of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, warned that investors in Europe need to understand the “inherent limitations” of the political response to the eurozone crisis.
06/24/2012
Moral judgements about tax have been flying around the media like a virus.
06/19/2012
Three-quarters of respondents would not let their pension governance budget restricts their investment strategy, according to research by Schroders.
06/18/2012
The sums as yet may seem small when compared to the leviathan banks that we are all so much more familiar with, but there is a vibrant and growing deposit and lending service which I believe has the opportunity of creating a very exciting and timely alter
06/18/2012
At a press briefing in New York, Katie Nixon, the firm's chief investment officer for personal financial services, spelled out “windows of opportunity” for investors.
06/14/2012
The government is intent on deterring ownership of high value properties, worth over £2 million, via companies (or any other ‘non-natural’ person), by taxing them more
06/14/2012
“Since the disastrous failure of Icelandic bank Landsbanki in 2008, UK savers have been more nervous about holding money with overseas banks.
06/14/2012
When participants were asked do you feel that LDI techniques used in DB can be used in a DC lifestyle in the future 35% said yes if the trustee understood the solution, 30% said yes that it was important to achieve best outcome and 30% said no as it was t
06/14/2012
By engaging in conversations, role playing and other interactive methods, Dr. Myers promises the conference participants will go deeper than they normally do when they discuss development and fundraising.
06/14/2012
The ongoing euro crisis is casting an increasingly long shadow over the global economy, including the growth markets which have been driving expansion so far.
06/12/2012
I've written in the past about how hiring more women can reduce risk. Several studies have shown that women are more profitable investors, money managers and hedge fund managers, and they incur less risk in the process.
06/11/2012
Spain is the top expat destination for a happier life • Canada and Germany come in second and third • New Zealand highlighted as best country for quality of life • Tax-conscious expats enjoy financial happiness in UAE
06/11/2012
It is not controversial to propose that humans have come pretty far in the last 225 years.
06/11/2012
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the latest developments in the Eurozone
06/08/2012
European investors save and invest more than 35% of their household income each month - more than three times the amount they set aside to service debt - according to new research from Schroders.
06/06/2012
While there is some truth in the assertion that the top end of the wealth continuum is increasingly looking for institutional-style performance analytics, it is a fallacy to see the needs of wealth managers as some kind of “institutional lite”