Managers of Wealth

Beware the Bond Bears

Wisdom after the event!

CHARTS: Global quantitative easing is rotating growth rather than accelerating it

For all of the monetary policy easing that has been implemented in recent years it is merely rotating growth, rather than accelerating it, from a global perspective

William Pesek: Man who brought down British bank warns about China

Twenty years after bringing down a major British bank, Nick Leeson is sounding alarm bells about China

Africa: What’s next? - Giles Keating, Credit Suisse

In the last couple of years Africa has been touted as the new growth frontier, amid huge expectations that the continent would emulate China and record exponential growth rates.

Global growth in 2015 - it’s complicated by Marios Maratheftis, Standard Chartered

If the world economy is set to grow faster in 2015, then why the long faces? Well, there are several reasons.

Investing in the Middle East – why we should by Taimoor Labib, Standard Chartered

When I first landed as a financier in the Middle East, nearly 10 years ago, there was much optimism about investment in the region.

Bite-coin: Making a Meal out of Money by Toby Birch

One of the topics I had previously been researching was the potential for creating our own digital currency, as a hedge against the damaging effects of Sterling’s devaluation, courtesy of Quantitative Easing.

Branko Milanovic's Elegant Thought Experiment About Wealth Inequality

And he’s an elegant little thought experiment over what exactly is wealth.

Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers

The darling buds of May

Psigma: Same ol’ Story - Becket on the USA

Greetings from the US of A.

So you thought you could stop worrying about a mansion tax? by Gary Heynes

While fears over the mansion tax may have subsided, could the new government raise other property taxes to grab a share of rising house prices?

Should You Invest in Rwanda? by James Timpson

“In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.” (Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda)

SJP comments on the first escalating fines for automatic enrolment failure

Ian Price, divisional director at St. James’s Place, comments on the recent fines issued by the Pensions Regulator over automatic enrolment failure:

St. James's Place Market Bulletin

The world’s financial markets have vacillated in recent weeks and the past seven days produced little evidence of a firmer direction. Renewed anxieties over the US economic recovery restored some stability to bond markets, while the S&P 500 inde

Major drag, huh ? by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management

“We’re not gonna make it, are we ? People, I mean.”

Highly Profitable Practices For Accounting Firms

Wealth management is a practice area some accounting firms have done very well with

Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers

They were all invented in China during the Song dynasty (960-1127 A.D.) Another - albeit less famous - invention also took place at that time.

Vampire CEOs Continue To Suck Blood

As the economy continues to struggle in the seventh year of its supposed recovery after the Great Recession–despite unprecedented amounts of free government money from the Fed–CEO compensation continues to soar

Asset managers often side with management on controversial issues, ShareAction report says

The investment charity's report Asset Manager Voting Practices: In Whose Interests? examined the voting records of the UK's 33 largest asset managers at company AGMs in 2014

'Investors in China face a bruising fall to earth', says Thomas Miller Investment

With China having enjoyed a significant bull run recently, is the bubble about to burst?

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