05/09/2016
It's May again! by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Oh dear…another one of those tiresome annual market phrases again: "Sell in May and go away, and don't come back until St Leger Day".
05/09/2016
With superlatives coming thick and fast, we might conclude that this is one of the most striking moments in the history of British sport.
05/09/2016
The shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway have just celebrated their latest ‘Woodstock for capitalists’ in the form of the company’s annual general meeting. Fund manager Jeffrey Miller of Eight Bridges Capital Management made the following
05/06/2016
Miton’s Anthony Rayner: Poor visibility, drive carefully
The sector and geographic reflection of these moves has been fairly clear.
05/05/2016
‘Wealthy Will Still Find A Way’ To Shelter Money Offshore
Panama has been the focus of relentless critical attention since the leak of documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca.
05/05/2016
Quilter Cheviot's international boss on taking the firm global
Students of obscure business cycle indicators might note its visibility in Google Trends spiked last year, having risen steadily since 2008.
05/05/2016
Stanley Druckenmiller Laments ‘Reckless’ Corporate Financial Behavior
In particular, Druckenmiller argued that stock buybacks and other rewards for financiers and shareholders have far outpaced research, development and capital expenditures such as plant improvements.
05/05/2016
What the heck with FinTech: Is Wealth Management ready to seize the moment?
(…said someone famous in 2016)
05/05/2016
Following weak corporate earnings in the Eurozone, notably at Deutsche Bank whose pre-tax profits have fallen 60%, the European Central Bank plans to extend its asset-buying programme to corporate bonds in July, a move that may well encourage an increase
05/05/2016
We would not rule this out completely but it is possible that monetisation arrives through a different route.
05/04/2016
While the world was speculating about oil prices plunging to $20 and $10 per barrel, China was busy stockpiling its reserves
05/03/2016
In this week's update, Alan Higgins, Chief Investment Officer, Coutts, gives an asset allocation update plus our view on the winners and losers from Corporate earnings season and central-bank policy.
05/03/2016
In their efforts to jam the square peg of financial theory into the round hole of human nature, economists have perpetrated some pretty stupid things.
05/02/2016
It is time for regulators to investigate sales practices at banks, says Madison Marriage
05/02/2016
Theoretically, defragmentation of a super-fragmented system (there are 30,000 banks in the world) is possible with two systems only, vertical or horizontal, namely payment systems or Bitcoin respectively
05/01/2016
FDI increases by 25% in 2015, with restructuring playing a large role
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