04/16/2012
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the renewed turmoil in the Eurozone and the UK’s public spending data in the light of the latest OECD report on fiscal consolidation.
04/13/2012
Soros, known as the man who broke the Bank of England by betting that the UK would be forced to devalue the pound during the 1992 currency crisis, said that "far from abating, the euro crisis has recently taken a turn for a worse".
04/12/2012
In a variation of the theme, we thought we would begin this Weekly Tax Brief with a quick round of ‘true or false’?
04/11/2012
Look to Italy for guidance on Spain - Coutts & Co
As pressure builds on Spain to implement its austerity and structural reform programmes, the example of Italy late last year provides a good guide to its road ahead.
04/10/2012
So is the UK economy flat-lining?
04/10/2012
The complex details are exhaustively set forth in the report. No one could quarrel with the stated goal, which is “to add alpha, or risk-adjusted excess returns, of greater than 2 percent annually to readily available indexes over a market cycle.&am
04/09/2012
Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for private banking at Emirates NBD, is primarily responsible for the investment products and portfolios of the bank's high-net-worth clients.
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