04/03/2012
THEY like a smoke and a drink, they shun vegetables and exercise, they have high blood pressure and cholesterol levels and are more at risk of developing diabetes and having heart attacks. And they're handling your money.
04/03/2012
I suppose it can be fun to stand for something.
04/01/2012
what does all this really mean for the investment process, the end-investor and the investment community?
03/30/2012
UBS cut one- and three-month targets for gold earlier this month.
03/30/2012
Roll up, roll up — everything in Britain is for sale
Part of RBS could be sold to Abu Dhabi. That’s no cause for alarm — we benefit from being open to investment
03/30/2012
The Budget proposal to restrict the availability of unlimited tax reliefs to a quarter of an individual’s income has aroused a great deal of concern that it will result in a fall in large scale donations to charity.
03/29/2012
In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right?
03/27/2012
Many of the leaders in the direct and database marketing field started their professional lives as bank marketers – your name was on a bank database and mixed into a predictive model before nearly any other industry started thinking of such things.
03/26/2012
Governing is planning - Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild
The unbelievable eight-fold increase in China's GDP in 33 years.
03/26/2012
The double-edged sword of the wealth continuum By Peter McKenna
Movement along the wealth continuum, the range where an investor’s wealth rises and falls, has intensified in recent times and brings with it a raft of challenges for wealth managers.
03/26/2012
China's Changing by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Just in case we hadn’t noticed, there are some significant issues going on in this burgeoning economy.
03/23/2012
The Chancellor’s key message was that Britain is open for business. Companies and individuals are welcome. But be sure to pay your taxes. However, there was a serious error of judgement in rushing out the tax increases for pensioners without showing
03/23/2012
At the moment, most investments of this sort are done offshore or kept within the free trade zone at the Singapore Freeport.
03/23/2012
A focus of investment for banks is on ensuring regulatory compliance and in assuring shareholders that they fully understand and can manage their risk exposures.
03/22/2012
Evolution, Natural Selection and Investment Reporting
03/22/2012
Gilt yields were broadly unchanged after the fiscally neutral UK budget kept to the planned course of cutting the deficit and stabilising the national debt over the course of the current parliament.
03/22/2012
Hesitating between new-found confidence and resurgent doubts, Patrick Ségal, former member of the Executive Comittee, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the global economy. He doesn't mince his words in his comments on France
03/19/2012
Have you noticed how the speed of corporate ageing seems to have been rising exponentially - corporate histories seem to have an ageing process worthy of various characters out of a Rider Haggard ripping yarn.
03/19/2012
You are about to experience the most unbelievable week in America ever, and we have to prepare for the absolutely worst case,Dimon told his staff..
03/19/2012
BMO Harris Private Banking today released its latest market commentary report, Equities Advance as Fears Ease. The report notes an improvement in the outlook for the eurozone and a continued advance in global equity markets.