05/10/2015
After a truly remarkable 24 hours in UK politics, my colleagues Gary Heynes, Bill Longe, Jim Meakin and I have been thinking about what the tax regime might look like under a Conservative Government.
05/09/2015
Fears about China’s slowing economy are overblown, authors Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel argue in this adapted excerpt from the follow-up to their The One Hour China Book.
05/07/2015
HSBC’s return Hong Kong would have a seismic impact on China’s banking sector
05/07/2015
With HMRC due to issue a new list of schemes that fall within the ‘Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes’ regime, many more people are likely to find an Accelerated Payment Notice land on the doormat.
05/07/2015
Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist, gives his views on the outlook for the eurozone economy
05/07/2015
We have heard spurious criticism of the tax treatment of Non-Doms (foreigners that are UK resident but non-domiciled) whose spending acts as a multiplier to boost business and employment.
05/07/2015
Robin Leach, a British-born journalist once said of Italians: “In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine”.
05/06/2015
Market moves over the past week showed the dangers of following the crowd, as investors rushed to take profit on some of this year’s best-loved trades.
05/06/2015
The Italian Job By: Tom Becket
05/05/2015
Wealth effect? Why Asia’s missing the boat
Year to date, the MSCI Emerging Asia Index has risen 12.7 percent
05/05/2015
Unsafe at any price by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management
There is one thing riskier than investing in a free market: investing in a rigged market
05/04/2015
While maturity models are useful, the reality is that large complex organizations often find it difficult to implement a single model.
05/04/2015
Trying to time the market and the fear of failure that forces selling.
05/04/2015
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley.
05/04/2015
The wealth management arm of Swiss banking giant UBS has turned China into its biggest client base in terms of investments in both domestic and offshore markets, the report said, citing chief executive Juerg Zeltner.
05/03/2015
At the titular tenner ticks down, Brazier explains why he is thinking about investing in Royal Bank of Scotland and list some of the stocks he expects to hold for the next 10 years.
05/03/2015
Why Cyprus isn’t Ireland
Both countries are island-states, ex British colonies, have a small population, and a significant portion of foreign direct investment.
05/03/2015
Knight told Reuters last year he believed UBS would eventually follow his advice and split off its investment bank.
05/03/2015
In 1990, an assessment called Project Rainbow paved the way for HSBC to move from Hong Kong to Britain.
05/03/2015
Financial professionals fret about their pay (too low), their industry (shrinking) and their regulators (do not even get them started).