05/20/2022
Views from the Floor
Has recent volatility forced markets from hedging mode to liquidation mode?; the unusual 5-week selloff of both Treasuries and the S&P 500; and the trials of being a central banker in a time of stagflation.
05/20/2022
12 best private schools in the UK, and their most notable alumni
Dulwich’s headmaster received a letter from one of the teachers expressing their concern about the views being expressed by one of the school’s students
05/20/2022
26 of America’s Richest Billionaires Paid 4.8 Percent Tax Rate in Recent Years
The report demonstrates the vast disparities between the tax code for the rich and for regular Americans.
05/20/2022
Sales and earnings growth for Q1 2022 in both the US and Europe exceeded expectations, led by strong energy sector results. The percentage of companies beating forecasts is above the long-term trend, but the margin of surprise is lower than recent quarter
05/19/2022
Vanguard’s Kunal Mehta discussed what Swiss investors want from active fixed income at the Finanz 22 event in Zurich.
05/19/2022
Declining US housing starts, surging UK inflation
05/19/2022
When it comes to sweet wines, Château d’Yquem remains the ultimate honey trap, writes Jonathan Ray
05/19/2022
The downgrade reflects Fitch's view that Credit Suisse's weak operating profitability compared with peers' highlights the execution risk during the group's restructuring
05/19/2022
The momentum towards integrating ESG into reward strategy seems unstoppable.
05/19/2022
Charlton Heston and our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs have little in common. But they both hate the walking dead.
05/19/2022
The financial world is in the midst of a painful and unfamiliar transition.
05/18/2022
Also core inflation, which excludes energy and food, fell to 6.2%.
05/18/2022
The majority of the 200 respondents (160) reported assets of between $5 million and $24.9 million.
05/18/2022
At its peak in 2018, Julius Baer could count on 1,051 bankers. Now, three years later, about one in six of them are gone.
05/18/2022
Managing for sustained outcomes and building trust in periods of dislocation
05/18/2022
President Joe Biden has made transparency reforms a key pillar of his foreign policy, vowing to tackle tax evasion and money laundering.
05/18/2022
The most common way to make a property purchase is to take out a mortgage loan.
05/17/2022
Quant chart: Value accelerates to strongest start in decades
2022 marks the best start to a year in our sample period of just over 35 years
05/17/2022
Number of Irish wealthy individuals set to surge
Ireland is among 10 countries forecast to see the largest proportional increase in their extremely rich populations between now and 2026
05/16/2022
“Childs: Temperature's up all over the camp. Won't last long though. MacReady: Neither will we. Childs: How will we make it? MacReady: Maybe we shouldn't.” - Dialogue from John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).