07/30/2012
Over the last month we have presented our latest thoughts on the global economy and financial markets to a number of intermediaries and contacts across the UK. In this month's View from Psigma we have collated the key questions that we were asked (an
07/29/2012
Professor John Kay's report last week had some key areas which the investment and finance industry should take to heart and learn from in quite short order.
07/29/2012
The latest UK GDP data, which showed a quarterly fall of 0.7% in 2012Q2, were far worse than expected.
07/26/2012
Blair's key Downing Street officials Jeremy Heywood and Jonathan Powell both went to work for Morgan Stanley - indeed Powell still does.
07/26/2012
The Men Who Run HSBC
On the other hand, some of the worst investments to hold are those run by executives collecting fat rewards as the underlying business goes to pot.
07/26/2012
We receive asset allocation reports from dozens of major managers on a fairly regular basis.
07/25/2012
Key to Investing Success: Staying Abreast of Market Conditions While Focusing on Long-Term Goals
07/24/2012
Lord Turner also says free current accounts are bad for competition in banking sector
07/24/2012
Is it possible that Barclays' board has been misled by Anthony Salz's urbane manner and establishment background into thinking that his review of the bank's business practices will deliver an answer to them which is comforting and anodyne?
07/22/2012
At last are we seeing signs of a strategic move from the London Stock Exchange?
07/22/2012
As HSBC executives apologise to the US Senate for laundering drugs money, the fact is that nothing changes
07/22/2012
American Robert Diamond once mocked “Little England” regulators for failing to match his global ambitions.
07/22/2012
The Price of Offshore Revisited was written by James Henry, a former chief economist at the consultancy McKinsey and commissioned by the Tax Justice Network.
07/19/2012
It just might be time to rethink that global diversification strategy
07/19/2012
The London Stock Exchange Group is in talks with the owner of the Singapore exchange about a potential £7.2bn merger.
07/18/2012
In spite of his doom and gloom about America and the world economy, when pressed Faber did recommend some China REITs.
07/18/2012
Yes, the euro will fall in value when Greece and other peripheral countries eventually exit the euro. However this fall will mainly be against the US dollar.
07/18/2012
Institutional investors were responding to claims made by the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England at the Treasury select committee that the sudden removal of Mr Diamond was in the best interest of shareholders.
07/17/2012
Attempts to manipulate Libor, an important interest rate (at which banks can borrow funds from other banks), originated on the trading floors of some of the biggest and oldest banks in London, like Barclays, and government officials on both sides of the A
07/17/2012
Investor confidence has weakened further, led by a sharp decline in expectations of corporate profit growth, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for July.