05/23/2016
It’s said that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella weren’t particularly impressed when Christopher Columbus returned from his voyage to America and presented the royal couple with this strange new ‘cacao’ bean.
05/23/2016
So, whatever his political background, the Mayor must ensure that our areas of success and effectiveness are not just protected, but promoted and enhanced.
05/23/2016
The Paris Agreement has provided a major incentive for carbon intensive companies to assess and report on the risks and opportunities facing their organisations as a result of climate change. Investors like Rathbone Greenbank are now bringing the realitie
05/23/2016
Value investing works. Buy bargains.” - Seth Klarman
05/23/2016
As more common people become first-time buyers of gold coins, counterfeiters have invested in sophisticated means to fool them with fakes.
05/23/2016
This public-private program brings women from emerging markets to the U.S. to be hosted by senior female executives.
05/20/2016
The term computer virus was described in 1984 as ‘a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself’, yet even before 1984, there were many papers published regarding viruses, even if they
05/18/2016
Contrary to much we’ve heard in the last week, not everyone who uses a “tax haven structure” does so to evade tax or to conceal the proceeds of crime - as a recent court ruling has recognised. While the temptation to name and shame may b
05/18/2016
There are strong rumours that Prime Minister Abe is looking to postpone the next hike in the consumption tax scheduled for April next year.
05/18/2016
Bitcoin has often been touted as a Ponzi Scheme- although it clearly is not – but the world of traditional finance is filled with similar pitfalls.
05/17/2016
Joël Reuland, manager of the BL-Global wealth management mixed funds, presents its fund BL-Global 50, the neutral profile within the range.
05/17/2016
They’ve come a long way from their origins as convenient vehicles in which to combine equities, fixed income and property.
05/16/2016
While I’m not entirely certain that Ben Franklin ever did say "a penny saved is a penny earned", I do know that Woody Allen said “money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
05/16/2016
Size isn’t just a barrier to efficiency in asset management. Beyond a certain limit, size threatens operational performance in just about every facet of life. In the words of the late Dr. Albert Bartlett, emeritus professor of physics at the Univers
05/16/2016
Losses will be directed to insurance companies, pension funds and private investors – bailing them out may prove to be politically necessary
05/16/2016
In Ang's opinion, the development of custom, factor-tailored products is going to usher in a whole different age of investing.
05/16/2016
On its website, Oraxy is described as “the world’s first private global marketplace reserved exclusively for UHNWI, which translates to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals.
05/15/2016
With the Olympic men's golf competition to be played from August 11-14, the year's final major, the PGA Championship, has been brought forward to late July from its traditional date in the second week of August.
05/13/2016
This makes us feel that currency risk is elevated and also that short term interest rates will remain low for an extended period, even if the US has begun putting rates up.
05/12/2016
GAM's Larry Hatheway on Markets - Dollar weakness and outlook for US interest rates
Higher US growth or inflation could reverse dollar sentiment