04/12/2012
The big winners year to date are BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, TD Securities, Wells Fargo and HSBC. And the biggest losers are Barclays, Nomura, Goldman and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
04/12/2012
The move follows in the footsteps of Investec’s decision to rebrand Rensburg Sheppards after its takeover of the firm in 2010.
04/11/2012
7IM backs European financials
The group’s latest investment outlook explains that European equities as a whole have reached a point where they can be considered undervalued.
04/11/2012
New white paper on investing in a “new normal” environment of high volatility and low yields released
Authored by Yogi Thambiah and Nicolo’ Foscari, both from the Investment Strategy Americas CIO Office, the paper addresses how investors can adjust risk frameworks to deal with a “New Normal” environment of increasing volatility and low-
04/11/2012
Changes At The Top Of Venerable German Private Bank
While they may be a period where no member of the von Metzler family is among the bank’s partners, Leonhard von Metzler, 36, may be accepted as one in the future, FT Deutschland said in an e-mailed summary of an article to be published tomorrow.
04/10/2012
The 69-year-old chairman of the Rothschild group is bringing together its French and UK assets under the roof of Paris Orléans, a French listed entity with its roots in a 19th-century railway company.
04/10/2012
A powerful alliance of aid groups, charities and arts organisations is launching a full-frontal assault on Treasury plans to limit tax relief for philanthropists, warning that they will have a devastating impact on the culture of giving at the heart of Da
04/10/2012
When, in late September 2010, rumours emerged that Mike Geoghegan, then chief executive of HSBC, and Stephen Green, then chairman, were about to depart, institutional shareholders rightly became concerned about who would replace them and what would happen
04/10/2012
Millionaire Tory donor 'slept on private jet flying outside UK airspace to avoid paying tax'
Dodge allowed him to extend the number of days he could stay in the UK without paying tax
04/10/2012
A confidential study by HM Revenue and customs found they are using aggressive avoidance schemes to reduce their income tax rate to an average of 10 per cent - less than half the level paid by the average Briton.
04/09/2012
THE new head of Brewin Dolphin's Glasgow office is keen to expand the business in the west of Scotland.
04/09/2012
Barclays is facing a major shareholder rebellion over Bob Diamond’s £18m pay package, with more than 10pc of investors set to vote against the bank’s remuneration report at its annual meeting.
04/05/2012
At launch of Big Society Capital fund, prime minister pledges to listen to charities' concerns over budget measure
04/05/2012
Luxury not-for-profit organisation Walpole has announced the results of a study with Ledbury Research into the current UK luxury goods market, forecasting growth in sales of 8.5% in 2012.
04/05/2012
A new survey documenting the changing face of expatriate life has identified five different types of modern British expat.
04/05/2012
Coutts’ clients who saw their money locked up in the AIG Enhanced Variable Rate fund when the credit crisis hit, face a further eight-week wait to hear if they will receive compensation.
04/04/2012
2011 featured a tough economic and stockmarket environment. It also brought continuing pressure on banking secrecy and heavier regulation of wealth management that drove up operating costs.
04/04/2012
The survey presents the results of the Deutsche Bank research chair’s foundation paper – a dynamic asset-liability management (ALM) model developed to guide asset allocation and risk management decisions at the SWF level, and describes the res
04/04/2012
Auction halted by legal fight over war artefacts collected by the Duke of Wellington's trusted aide
04/04/2012
Swiss and German media had reported the Swiss bank had introduced the ban after Switzerland issued the warrants, which accuse the three German civil servants of industrial espionage for buying the bank details of German tax evaders.