12/27/2015
New Brooms: Bank CEOs embark on clean up
Leaders at Barclays, Deutsche and Credit Suisse face a tough 2016
Comment & Analysis
12/27/2015
You Don't Have to Be a Billionaire to Buy a Big Building in Manhattan (or, a Piece of One)
"That really changed the landscape of access," said Adam Hooper, CEO of RealCrowd, a San Francisco-based startup that brings equity crowdfunding to the real estate industry.
12/27/2015
Dubai selected to host world's top business leaders at 2016 YPO EDGE event
The largest gathering of global CEOs will be hosted in MENA at the YPO EDGE for the first time in March 2016
12/26/2015
From Brexit to Corbynomics via noflation: the words that made 2015 buzz
Richard Northedge charts the neologisms that entered the language of business in a year dominated by Europe, debt and tax avoidance
12/24/2015
AND THE WINNER WAS... (and Hitler’s Ball) by Justin Urquhart Stewart
This article represents a personal and light-hearted view from 7IM, and is based on current financial news and events around the world.
12/24/2015
Top financial reads for the Christmas holidays by Penny Lovell
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
12/23/2015
Schroders' Louisa Lo gives her Greater China Equities Outlook for 2016
In today's Outlook for 2016, Louisa Lo, Head of Greater China Equities, highlights the importance of bottom-up stock selection for 2016 against a backdrop of sluggish economic growth and anaemic earnings
12/23/2015
Leaner, meaner and a darn sight keener – the taxman ups the fight against evasion in 2016 by Mike Down
HMRC has recently been criticised for being too soft on criminal tax investigations. But hold on to your hats because a leaner, meaner taxman is getting ready to take on the serious evaders in 2016…
12/22/2015
Easing and squeezing - St. James's Place Market Bulletin
The beginning of the new millennium’s first financial crisis is usually dated to the bursting of the housing bubble in the US in 2007; identifying the close of a crisis is a trickier business.
12/21/2015
How Much Oil Is Needed To Power Santa’s Sleigh? by By Michael McDonald of Oilprice.com
Well the answer is complicated by a number of factors most importantly, we just don’t know a lot of about Santa’s rounds, the shape of the sleigh, the air speed of the craft, or the weight of all those presents. But, we can take some educated
12/21/2015
Schroders' James Sym and James Rutland share their Outlook for 2016
In their outlook they see a major turning point occurring in the business cycle at this point.
12/20/2015
BVI shaping up to compete with the Cayman Islands by Philip Graham
The Cayman Islands may offer sleek Ferrari style products but the BVI has packed on some muscle recently and, like the Mustang GT in this YouTube clip, is giving Cayman some competition.
12/20/2015
How 2015 made me wiser… by Penny Lovell
In the investment world every day is different. Yes, some aspects may seem repetitive but every day, every year, we learn new things. It’s like cooking: the raw materials and the recipes might look the same, but each restaurant is different from the
12/20/2015
The hike before Christmas by Tim Price
“Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.' - W.C. Fields.
12/20/2015
A brief glimpse for Williams and Glyn's? by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Although it can date part of its roots back to 1771, with the founding of the private bank, Williams Deacon & Co, the bank remained independent before being taken over by Royal Bank of Scotland
12/18/2015
Barings’ Laud uses property as a ‘natural diversifier’ over equities
The fund now has “a strong weighting” in property, representing 11 per cent of the portfolio.
12/18/2015
Unigestion: 2016 Perspectives by Florian Ielpo, Head of Macroeconomic Research
Seven years after the end of one of the worst world recessions, inflation is nowhere to be found
12/18/2015
EFG 2016 Outlook & CIO Resolutions by Moz Afzal, Chief Investment Officer
2016 is set to be a year in which economic growth in the developed economies levels out at around 2%.
12/17/2015
'The other Great Wall of China - the Wall of Money' - Temple Field Property
Asian interest in UK residential real estate is building rapidly, and Temple Field is increasingly and strongly of the view that the true impact of Chinese investment into the UK, and in particular the London residential property market, has only just beg
12/17/2015
"Investors will now be looking to the potential fallout around the emerging markets"
US interest rate - comment from Nancy Curtin, CIO, Close Brothers