02/19/2015
It may be difficult to look beyond the current pricing environment for oil, but the depletion of low-cost reserves and the increasing inability to find major new discoveries ensures a future of expensive oil.
02/19/2015
The title reads like a loaded question, but there’s actually nothing wrong with incremental improvement – look no further than the Japanese car industry.
02/18/2015
Financial markets serve two crucial purposes: to channel savings towards productive investments, and to enable individuals and businesses to manage risks through diversification and insurance.
02/18/2015
There is a well-known transition among investors in hedge funds between high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors
02/18/2015
India eagerly awaits evidence of reform
02/17/2015
Wealth enhancement is the process of using advanced planning strategies to mitigate taxes resulting in greater personal wealth creation
02/16/2015
I know I am supposed to be writing about this week - but last week I had some great fun in being invited to the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference with over 1,000 people attending.
02/16/2015
The last two years of the goat were 1991-1992 and 2003-2004, when markets returned 31.0% and 46.0% respectively, an average of 38.5%. This is second only to the year of the Rooster (1993-1994 and 2005-2006), where returns averaged 50.1%.
02/15/2015
European expats working in the US are suddenly finding banks in their home countries are closing their securities accounts because of new laws introduced by Washington to curb overseas tax evasion.
02/15/2015
Despite Germany and others appearing to be relaxed about a potential Greek exit from the euro, a ‘Grexit’ could have significant repercussions for investors, warns a leading global investment analyst.
02/13/2015
Very few wealthy people manage to transfer the ability to guard and preserve wealth across generations successfully.
02/12/2015
For many years I was a mainstream investment manager; believing in the omniscient wisdom of central bankers. Once the scales had fallen from my eyes after yet more manipulation I realised that I had to do something about the charade.
02/12/2015
With the top 10% of income tax payers paying more than 55% of the UK’s income tax, we ask why politicians continue to portray these people as not paying their ‘fair share’.
02/10/2015
European equities have put in a robust performance so far this year, outperforming US markets by over 10 percentage points at the time of writing.
02/09/2015
Yet wealth management shouldn't be considered so exclusive, because all of us, rich and poor alike, need wealth management.
02/09/2015
While there has been a slight fall since the previous Business Tendency Survey, the picture remains positive with 98% of respondents being either more than or equally as optimistic as they were three months previously.
02/09/2015
Happy New for the Year of the Ram
02/04/2015
84% of wealth managers surveyed do not think a mansion tax should be introduced
The one thing the parties agree on, is that income and inheritance taxes are likely to be reformed in the next Parliament, in addition to which a levy on high value residential property may be introduced.
02/04/2015
HMRC on the warpath against high earners by Mike Down
Some commentators have suggested that HMRC is failing to keep up the pace in “weaponising” its approach to tax evasion and avoidance, but recently published information suggests that a targeted attack is well underway, particularly against hig
02/04/2015
"China’s slowdown has prompted hopes of stimulus and optimism for commodities but this is misplaced. The nature of the current slowdown and the rebalancing of growth mean we are likely to see less of a lift than in the past.