05/01/2016
Sabine Heubner, in The Family in Roman Egypt*, describes how parents in second and third century Roman Egypt were expected to “feed and clothe their children, watch over their moral development, celebrate their coming of age, provide their sons with
05/01/2016
However do they actually feel it?
04/28/2016
Hatred of taxes by the wealthy has had real consequences.
04/28/2016
John Cryan and Jürgen Fitschen, Co-CEOs of Deutsche Bank, sent out the following message to the Bank’s employees on April 28, 2016
04/28/2016
The year is proving challenging for those that seek to second guess the market
04/28/2016
For decades, banking in Europe has been a one-size-fits-all solution – if you wanted banking services you went to one of the handful of large mainstream banks.
04/27/2016
The plan has been pioneered by the 30-year-old Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the second in line to the King, who has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in the Saudi government.
04/27/2016
Call me sad, but news that the OECD would today issue a statement on tax and Brexit gave me a sense of eager anticipation. We even delayed publication of this Tax Brief to study and interpret the results of the OECD’s work. So much anticipation&hell
04/26/2016
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
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
This particular intern is a millennial, a generation that some have suggested is entitled, self-centred and adverse to hard-work.
04/25/2016
What is the primary purpose of a stock exchange?
04/25/2016
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
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.
04/25/2016
Leicester City has surprised everyone by challenging for the English Premier League title, but what does the club's fortunes reveal about behavioural psychology and how does that relate to investing?
04/22/2016
After all, should the glass not always be half full…?
04/22/2016
‘Growth surprises’ which fuelled rebound unlikely to continue
04/21/2016
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
04/21/2016
We are not fully convinced of a Chinese recovery
04/21/2016
The unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was no less than the lifting of the final curtain on a game-changing energy revolution. And if we follow that revolution to its core, we arrive at lithium—our new gasoline for which the feeding fre