04/05/2012
Foreign companies with a UK source of interest pay income tax on that interest, which is normally collected by deducting it at source in the form of “withholding tax” (WHT). So what impact might the proposed changes have on international group
04/05/2012
Monaco, U.K. and Switzerland are just some of the countries facing this dilemma but now there’s a new country ready to join their exclusive party: Singapore.
04/04/2012
RBS said the main benefit is that it saves it the cost of shutting the businesses itself.
04/02/2012
There seems to be a given rule that we all have to own some property, and that's what we "should do", and invest in good solid bricks and mortar.
04/01/2012
what does all this really mean for the investment process, the end-investor and the investment community?
03/30/2012
Roll up, roll up — everything in Britain is for sale
Part of RBS could be sold to Abu Dhabi. That’s no cause for alarm — we benefit from being open to investment
03/30/2012
The Budget proposal to restrict the availability of unlimited tax reliefs to a quarter of an individual’s income has aroused a great deal of concern that it will result in a fall in large scale donations to charity.
03/29/2012
Women Executives Will Destroy The World, Say Male Economists
In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right?
03/26/2012
Movement along the wealth continuum, the range where an investor’s wealth rises and falls, has intensified in recent times and brings with it a raft of challenges for wealth managers.
03/26/2012
Just in case we hadn’t noticed, there are some significant issues going on in this burgeoning economy.
03/23/2012
The Chancellor’s key message was that Britain is open for business. Companies and individuals are welcome. But be sure to pay your taxes. However, there was a serious error of judgement in rushing out the tax increases for pensioners without showing
03/23/2012
A focus of investment for banks is on ensuring regulatory compliance and in assuring shareholders that they fully understand and can manage their risk exposures.
03/23/2012
The market rally is likely to grind higher on mounting evidence that the US is reasserting itself as an engine of world economic growth. Indeed, the world has moved closer towards the upper end of our base-case economic scenario. But while the rally is wa
03/22/2012
Evolution, Natural Selection and Investment Reporting
03/22/2012
Gilt yields were broadly unchanged after the fiscally neutral UK budget kept to the planned course of cutting the deficit and stabilising the national debt over the course of the current parliament.
03/22/2012
Hesitating between new-found confidence and resurgent doubts, Patrick Ségal, former member of the Executive Comittee, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the global economy. He doesn't mince his words in his comments on France
03/19/2012
Britain is being overtaken by emerging economies, such as India and Brazil in the “race” for a share of Africa’s new and fast-growing markets, according to Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria and leader of its ruling party
03/19/2012
Have you noticed how the speed of corporate ageing seems to have been rising exponentially - corporate histories seem to have an ageing process worthy of various characters out of a Rider Haggard ripping yarn.
03/15/2012
It seems that economic strategy has shifted from fostering growth to shoring up government finances.
03/15/2012
Does it make sense for longer-term investors to hold government bonds when better yields are available from dividends?