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”
05/28/2012
Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England's executive director, called it last week when he said free banking as we know it should end.
05/28/2012
Gold, a traditional safe haven asset in troubled markets, has been out of favour recently amid growing fears of deflation.
05/24/2012
In some sense, the only hope for the eurozone is to lower monetary policy further, which would also push the value of the euro lower.
05/23/2012
Last November, the IPO deal of the day was Groupon. On the first day of trading, shares rose to a high of $31 from an initial offering price of $20.
05/22/2012
Such statistics are, of course, a broad brush and there will be lots of exceptions to the rule. The whole issue of relative inequality is also a hugely complex and emotive area which defies simplistic analysis.