04/07/2014
Recall that since May, every single investment house recommended DMs over EMs - the latter were said to have weak fundamentals, their current account deficits were too large, their currencies needed to be devalued
04/07/2014
It is a dazzling morning and Bestinvest chief investment officer Gareth Lewis has strolled for 10 minutes in the March sunshine from his London home to Bestinvest’s Mayfair headquarters, tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac close to businessman John C
04/07/2014
So the question was - is it a good recovery or a great recovery?
04/07/2014
Sustainability advocacy group Ceres, in collaboration with BlackRock and other major institutional investors across the globe, announced an initiative to engage global stock exchanges, via the World Federation of Exchanges, on a uniform standard for susta
04/07/2014
Many policymakers believe the worst is over, but is this just 'groupthink'? And which warnings might the IMF miss this time?
04/04/2014
One of the most controversial aspects of fund management is performance fees - payments made in addition to management fees.
04/04/2014
The world's $87 trillion (£52 trillion) asset management industry is getting riskier and echoes some of the "too big to fail" risks already being addressed at banks
04/02/2014
This information update contains important information that directors of issuers listed on the Official List of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange Authority Limited should be aware of.
04/01/2014
Demographics Provoke Wealth Firms to Undertake Wholesale Transformation
Sometimes change just explodes all around us, like in Venezuela and the Ukraine.
03/31/2014
Don't be April Fooled by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The UK consumer is a powerful part of the UK economy.
03/31/2014
Property Taxes – Over extended? by Baker Tilly
Last week’s Budget introduced three phased changes for properties bought by a company or an arrangement that includes a company.
03/27/2014
The industry is still growing, and fast. The wealth of high-net-worth individuals is expected to grow by 6% annually
03/26/2014
Making competition king – the rise of behavioural economics at the FCA by Martin Wheatley
Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive, the FCA, at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.
03/26/2014
Anthony Hilton: Avoidance and the risk to private banks
The hints from the Chancellor’s aides were that this could bring in as much as £8 billion
03/26/2014
What we have got, we like, and it operates very effectively, even though we focus on growth in other parts of the business
03/26/2014
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is betting that bond yields will rise in South Korea and Malaysia as increased volatility in China pushes up risk premiums and U.S. economic strengthening buoys rates globally.
03/24/2014
Well not really - but more like 1998 possibly? The bellowing eagerness of an enthusiastic bull market of 1999 was something to behold, when dot com concepts and barely born businesses were given ridiculous valuations.
03/24/2014
Its nearest rival, the Bank of Singapore, had AUM of US$46bil last year
03/24/2014
"Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of trumpets," Lord Nathan Rothschild said in 1810
Russian funds back in the game
03/20/2014
2014 UK Budget - RBC Wealth Management comments on the impact on the Channel Islands
Richard Brook, Head of Tax, RBC Wealth Management reacts to key announcements in the 2014 UK Budget: