06/08/2015
Such terrible suspense by Tim Price
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” - Oscar Wilde
Comment & Analysis
06/08/2015
Climbing China’s Great Wall of Worry - Blackrock
Investment Risks and Opportunities
06/07/2015
Barclays Banker Loses Two Jobs After Leak of Insane Intern Email
Kwan, who was a second-year analyst in Barclays’ Global Power & Utilities group, was let go by the bank on Friday
06/05/2015
Boost investment in Africa’s energy for a triple win for people, power and planet
African governments, investors, and international financial institutions must significantly scale up investment in energy to unlock Africa’s potential as a global low-carbon superpower.
06/05/2015
What 'Animal Farm' can – and can’t – teach us about the global economy by Penny Lovell
Unlike Animal Farm, however, we operate in a free market regime, and free markets have a number of economic stabilisers to prevent the strong from becoming too strong.
06/03/2015
Hedge Fund Giant Tells Hillary Clinton to Cut the 'Crap'
Billionaire hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman takes issue with the former secretary of state's portrayal of his profession.
06/03/2015
Robo-advice is not the death of the wealth manager, says Thomas Miller Investment
Robo-advice in the years to come will be dominated by the big institutions such as insurance companies and banks
06/02/2015
How to invest in wine from scratch?
Investing in wine is the type of deal that needs time to materialize. It must be regarded as a long-term proposition otherwise it will be impossible for the investor to see any returns
06/02/2015
St. James's Place Market Bulletin - Tuesday 2 June 2015
In a week of eye-catching headlines, disappointing data and further uncertainty, there was very little movement for the major global equity markets.
06/02/2015
deVere: Presidential candidates owe it to America to explain their stance on controversial FATCA
Presidential candidates must come clean on America’s highly controversial global tax law - and more must urgently be done to repeal it, not least because it is “a blue print for worse to come”, warns the boss of one of the world’s
06/02/2015
Oliver Stone says America’s big banking bosses should have been jailed
Greed, says three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, is not good.
06/01/2015
The New Imperial China? by Justin Urquhart-Stewart
Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat down last week for a vital meeting to try and develop the tense relationship between these two giants.
06/01/2015
The OECD’s Business and Finance Outlook looks at the Greatest Puzzle of Today
The greatest puzzle today is that since the global crisis financial markets see so little risk, with asset prices rising everywhere in response to zero interest rates and quantitative easing, while companies that invest in the real economy appear to see s
06/01/2015
Building concerns by Tim Price
As for the rest of the billions, it’s not clear precisely where that money went.
06/01/2015
Water investors to enjoy double digit earnings growth in 2015/16 according to Kleinwort Benson Investors CIO
Kleinwort Benson Investors highlight drivers of outperformance
06/01/2015
Swiss Pensionskassen stay calm under negative rates pressure
Buyers were adding to larger diversified bond portfolios
05/29/2015
3 fundamental lessons Warren Buffett learned from his mentor Ben Graham
Warren Buffett spent his late teens consuming as many books on stocks and investing as possible
05/29/2015
Robo wealth advisors: has the terminator arrived?
Just as the ATM did not displace the bank teller, robo advisors are unlikely to replace all wealth managers
05/29/2015
HSBC Should Stay Put and Get Bigger, or Leave and Shrink — UBS
HSBC Holdings is once again assessing whether to shift its headquarters from the U.K. But one of the options — moving bank to Hong Kong — “is certainly the wrong answer,” according to analysts at UBS AG
05/29/2015
China update - why the reform process needs a strong equity market
Despite an overnight correction following the recent run-up, China remains the world’s best performing equity market since the start of the year.