06/10/2016
The Wealth Management Relationship: The Data or the Advisor?
The question of whether the relationship is about the data or the people rages on.
Comment & Analysis
06/10/2016
Connect the corporate dots to see true transparency
Analysts need a way to track links between companies scattered across jurisdictions
06/10/2016
How a 143-Year-Old Swiss Bank Took a Quick Road to Ruin in Asia
That coup in 2009 set off a chain of events that has now thrust BSI into the center of the widening financial scandal involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
06/10/2016
Billionaire Investors Back A Gold Price Rally In 2016 By James Stafford of Oilprice.com
And thanks to an overvalued U.S. dollar, gold may have nowhere to go but up.
06/10/2016
China’s Banks: How Fixing Problems Can Make Them Worse
Document 82 could leave banks with a capital hole of more than $150 billion
06/09/2016
World’s 50 Best Restaurants announces the 2016 51-100 list
This year’s awards host city, New York, sees five restaurants appear on the list including Thomas Keller’s Per Se at No.52
06/08/2016
More Product, Fintech Pacts On Radars As Managers Tussle For Assets in Asia
This is one of the key findings of Cerulli Associates' newly-released report, Asian Distribution Dynamics 2016: Responding to an Evolving Landscape.
06/08/2016
Four questions for Lutz Overlack, Head of Sales at BLI
“We have to be careful not to lose sight of the whole picture”
06/08/2016
Euro 2016: Where are the best equity opportunities among the tournament favourites?
With the Euro 2016 football tournament about to get under way, Martin Skanberg and Nicholette MacDonald-Brown, European Equities Fund Managers assess the investment opportunities offered by some of the main contenders.
06/07/2016
Finance execs back blockchain and AI potential - survey
The survey was conducted with 92 banking and capital markets institutions, with executives that are directly involved with technology decisions at their firm.
06/07/2016
Schroders: Our hopes and concerns for the current market
The bond market, for example, now looks incredibly expensive.
06/07/2016
Bahamas Improves Ranking as a Caribbean Destination
The Bahamas leapfrogged Jamaica in this year’s absolute ranking, the report states.
06/07/2016
St. James’s Place – If oil reaches $60, it will limit growth in the Eurozone and Japan
The price of oil continued to rise last week, pushing above $50 a barrel, despite a decision by OPEC not to cut production. In this context, a rising oil price might be seen as a net positive for the global economy, but a report by Citigroup suggests the
06/07/2016
Can Singapore stay clean when banks play dirty for wealthy clients?
Being a private banking hub exposes the city-state to tainted money, analysts tell Money Mind. But bankers have been sent a strong message to play by compliance rules - or else.
06/06/2016
Barclays’ Ex-CEO Sees Blockchain Uprooting Critical Core of Banking
Speaking at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Jenkins touched upon banks’ reliance on maturity transformation – a core component of retail banking, critical to its very existence.
06/06/2016
Jack Nicklaus leads tributes to Muhammad Ali from the world of golf
I was incredibly honoured and humbled to receive an award in December bearing his name.
06/06/2016
What does Lord Rothschild know about the markets that others don't?
Its approach has barely changed since the end of the Second World War.
06/06/2016
The root of good art by Penny Lovell
“When a new work of art is created something happens simultaneously to all the works of art that preceded it.” T. S. Elliot
06/06/2016
Currencies – Gold, paper, plastic by Justin Urquhart Stewart
For centuries, countries and those trying to run their economies have fretted over the value and strength of their currencies.
06/06/2016
Why portfolio theory is wrong by Tim Price
Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards