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First steps towards a wealth tax? by George Bull

Here’s the big irony: if a mansion tax is to be sustainable year by year rather than simply bleeding a section of society, then it has to rely on continuing economic growth.

The Unconventional Becomes Conventional

Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, believes that a lengthy period of Quantitative Easing (QE) is needed to support economies through years of fiscal tightening and debt de-leveraging.

Euro treads water, at the deep end - Coutts & Co

We believe the potential for negative events in Europe will keep the euro on the defensive against the dollar and sterling, but the downside looks limited in the near term given investors in general are already broadly holding negative positions.

Will there be a British Business Bank?

So what is the state of play on the government's ambition to correct the perceived lack of credit for small and medium-sized businesses?

Ten reasons to give ethical investment the green light

it’s becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money.

THE USA – IN STAR TREK SPEAK “IT’S A RECOVERY JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT”

Well we shouldn't complain

HMRC pushes back

Following breaches in the Banking Code of Practice on Taxation, retrospective tax legislation is to be introduced.

The growth figures may be insipid, the headlines may seem dour...

There are some positive dots that we can join together when looking at the UK economy, which when viewed as a connected string, is beginning to show a slightly more creditable and credible pattern.

Signs of opportunity among the wreckage of European equities - Coutts

Although we remain cautious regarding exposure to European equities in general, selective opportunities may be emerging, as long as global central banks maintain the easy- money stance that is helping to fuel appetite for risk.

Kleinwort Benson's new CIO says "animal spirits" at play in the markets

Crisis, what crisis?

Paying the piper….

HM Revenue & Customs have now started to issue the £100 penalty notices to those people in self-assessment that did not submit their return by the deadline of 2 February 2012.

Global Investment Banking Revenue to Drop 4%

The analysts upgraded their estimate for fixed-income, currencies and commodities sales to a 13 percent drop for the first quarter from a decline of 26 percent after a “material improvement” at the start of the year, the analysts said, while t

Adviser confidence starts to rise

Advisers are feeling more confident about the UK economy but unemployment and government spending cuts are of growing concern, according to Skandia’s latest Adviser Confidence Barometer.

Learning a lesson from the Americans

Following my comments about the missing financial infrastructure in the UK, I was recently comparing the US banking and financial structures with our own.

Moody’s credit warning and rising unemployment mean radical growth policies are needed

Last week began badly when Moody’s changed Britain’s credit outlook from stable to negative

Looking beyond the Greek tragedy

Central banks continue to ease policy and risk appetite amongst investors has increased. In the very near term however we remain somewhat wary that markets have rallied too strongly and that further profit taking and lower markets are quite possible.

No crisis of capitalism but time to take stock

Deutsche Bank’s Middle East chief offers his perspective on the bigger picture.

More pension tax changes to come?

As we predicted in our last Weekly Tax Brief, higher rate tax relief for pension contributions is once again in the firing line.

Stop the (printing) press

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

The £64,000 question - should we beware of Barclays' 'big round number'?

“Beware of big round numbers,” says the latest advice from the Local Government Association to Britain’s city councils presentation of their annual budgets.

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