04/26/2016

Does it pay to ‘Sell in May’? - Tilney Bestinvest

With the start of May just days away, should investors heed the old adage to ‘Sell in May and go away, don’t come back till St. Leger Day’, which advocates selling out of the stock market for the summer months?

04/26/2016

St. James's Place - Brexit fears have subsided

John Wood of J O Hambro, and fund manager of the St. James’s Place’s General Progressive fund believes that large multinational companies may have their headquarters in London but “their performance is not driven necessarily by what happ

04/25/2016

Surviving Mission Creep by Tim Price

o there is another reason why Europe isn’t growing and it’s one the central bank can do nothing about. Namely, the 19 governments of the Eurozone and the super-state in Brussels have essentially outlawed it

04/25/2016

Goldilocks levels for US home inventories

This sustained improvement mirrors the state of the US labour market. Participation rates, which measure the active portion of the economy, edged up to 63.0% in March, according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

04/21/2016

UBS, Favored by Bank Investors, Hits Snag in Wealth Expansion

UBS clients in regions including Brazil, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, reacting to losses in stock markets or businesses exposed to energy prices, sat out the turbulent second half of 2015 and yanked a net 3.2 billion Swiss francs ($3.3 billion) in as

04/18/2016

Beyond bulls and bears by Penny Lovell

You may remember the wonderful Nicolas Nassim Taleb’s "The Black Swan" (2007) that was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.