12/04/2014
Low oil prices are not just a problem for oil companies. Investment funds, hungry for yield in a low interest rate environment, have poured money into oil and gas. To be sure, we are far from a crisis at this point, but if oil prices don't rebound, a
12/03/2014
CIO Year Ahead, the annual outlook published by UBS Wealth Management's CIO, forecasts investors facing a diverging world in 2015.
12/02/2014
In the African tax sphere, the trend remains for headline tax rates to continue to remain stable or decrease.
12/02/2014
They're bullish on the economy.
11/30/2014
Herds can be dangerous. Stand in the way of one and you can get trampled
11/30/2014
We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should be reconsidered and discontinued.
11/27/2014
London ‘could be city state by 2035’
London could become a city state like Singapore by 2035 because of its economic dominance over the rest of Britain
11/27/2014
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 2014 Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation in Washington D.C. where Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher gave his opening remarks after the first panel.
11/27/2014
The Wealth Management Client Experience - Scorpio Partnership
“Put the customer at the heart of the service experience”
11/27/2014
Who set up Atlas Merchant Capital to invest in financial firms, sees opportunities as banks shrink
11/26/2014
What is there not to like? Well, Rob Taylor, the man at the Financial Conduct Authority with responsibility for the wealth management industry, thought of a few things yesterday.
11/24/2014
Market trends, hot investment funds and new sophisticated financial tools are being made available at the touch of a few buttons as banks add bells and whistles to attract investors and advisers.
11/24/2014
While Europe fiddles with the pay cap, other economic hubs are dividing the spoils
11/23/2014
Dodgy dashboards
Given the fact that I drive a 1964 Morris Traveller, I think she is entitled to have the occasional flashing light on her vintage dashboard.
11/20/2014
UBP's Investment Outlook 2015: 'Divergence'
Contrary to expectations, Europe did not undergo a healing process in 2014; whilst long-dated bonds generated remarkable performances, European equities underperformed.
11/17/2014
Looking back over the global landscape in recent years, characterised as it has been, by painful adjustments in financial and economic affairs, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that we have been lurching from crisis to crisis.
11/16/2014
At first glance, RatTraders.com looks like a bit of a joke. Marcovici explains on videos how he selects the “most talented rats” and trains them over three to six months to make decisions to go long or short. If the rat makes the right decisio
11/16/2014
The papers seem to be full of pundits predicting that "the end is nigh" for stock market valuations at their current level.
11/16/2014
In 1975, Charles Ellis, the founder of Greenwich Associates, wrote one of the most powerful and memorable metaphors in the history of finance.
11/14/2014
The television, radio, golf, Bovril, the flushing toilet and penicillin can all trace their inception back to a Scotsman.