05/19/2015
Major drag, huh ? by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management
“We’re not gonna make it, are we ? People, I mean.”
Comment & Analysis
05/19/2015
Highly Profitable Practices For Accounting Firms
Wealth management is a practice area some accounting firms have done very well with
05/18/2015
Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers
They were all invented in China during the Song dynasty (960-1127 A.D.) Another - albeit less famous - invention also took place at that time.
05/18/2015
Vampire CEOs Continue To Suck Blood
As the economy continues to struggle in the seventh year of its supposed recovery after the Great Recession–despite unprecedented amounts of free government money from the Fed–CEO compensation continues to soar
05/18/2015
Asset managers often side with management on controversial issues, ShareAction report says
The investment charity's report Asset Manager Voting Practices: In Whose Interests? examined the voting records of the UK's 33 largest asset managers at company AGMs in 2014
05/18/2015
'Investors in China face a bruising fall to earth', says Thomas Miller Investment
With China having enjoyed a significant bull run recently, is the bubble about to burst?
05/18/2015
It may sound like something out of a Tolkien story by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The Battle for the Three Unions
05/17/2015
Female chiefs may be unfairly targeted but, just like the men, they're overpaid
Outlook Is the fuss over Katherine Garrett-Cox – the way in which she has been running Alliance Trust, and her pay – yet another example of sexism in the City, as she has claimed?
05/17/2015
Could the fizz from this Hampshire vineyard rival Champagne?
Hambledon Vineyard in Hampshire is on course to make a million bottles of British bubbly a year
05/17/2015
Ian Gibbs, Admirals Cup champion dies at 87
Ian Gibbs, one of New Zealand's top offshore owner/skippers, has died at the age of 87 years.
05/15/2015
Inside the mind of an international adviser
David Howell, chief executive at Guardian Wealth Management, talks through some of the everyday considerations of an international adviser.
05/14/2015
Switzerland Still A Great Place To Take Your Money On Vacation: HSBC Chief
You might think that the recent death of Switzerland’s most cherished industry and hobby, tax evasion, might prompt some soul-searching in its Alpine ski lodges and lakeside châteaux
05/13/2015
Uncovering the local emerging market debt winners - comment from Swiss & Global
Comment from Paul McNamara, manager of the JB Local Emerging Bond Fund
05/13/2015
What should a new tax disclosure facility look like? by Mike Down, Baker Tilly
The Government has promised to introduce a new disclosure facility which will run from 2016, so what should it look like? Our finest tax brains have been on the case…
05/13/2015
Eurozone recovery gathers momentum - Schroders
Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist, comments on today's eurzone GDP figures
05/12/2015
Manchester United: Glazers' takeover has been 'dispassionate' but 'staggeringly executed,' says Red Knight Jim O'Neill
One of the world's most respected economists pays tribute to United’s majority American owners' business sense, but says they are lacking when it comes to running 'human side' of club
05/12/2015
"Great opportunity for every investor to own some physical gold": Bob Alderman
A with Bob Alderman, Executive Vice President, Gold Bullion International
05/11/2015
Coutts: Oil surge points to global growth
Oil prices are one of the few things that have been going up lately – a dramatic reversal of one of this year’s major trends. Global equity and bond markets have been falling, but we think this may have more to do with profit-taking (see last
05/11/2015
China cuts rates, but more are needed -Schroders
Craig Botham, Emerging Markets Economist at Schroders, comments on the rate cut in China.
05/10/2015
Goodbye to all that by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management
“Funny how bonds were labelled “certificates of confiscation” back in the early 1980’s when yields were 14%. What should we call them now ?” - Bill Gross.