02/25/2014
Growth, Uncertaint​y and FX
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy
Comment & Analysis
02/24/2014
Fair Tax for Ulster
The businesses in Ulster have one very major issue to manage over and above all the other economic and social issues that fellow companies have to address elsewhere across the UK - that is of course its southern neighbour, which sits across a very porous
02/24/2014
Post-Casey, what expats must do
More and more Singaporeans are protesting against the influx of foreigners. What exactly is contributing to this xenophobia?
02/23/2014
Facing Retirement Wave, Firms Get Serious About Training New Advisors
Running up against the limits of a recruitment strategy based on swiping advisor talent from their competitors, leading wealth management firms are trying a new ploy: Growing their own.
02/21/2014
Hot-shot hedge fund banker quits London job and sets up company in Boston to find drugs to save his son, 3, after he's diagnosed with fatal muscular disease
A heroic father has quit his job as a high-flying hedge fund banker in London and dedicated himself to finding a cure for his sick son, who is fighting a life-threatening muscular disease.
02/21/2014
Suicides in the banking world, 7 deaths within weeks
The financial world has been rocked over the past few weeks as seven bankers have died, several of those committing suicide.
02/21/2014
Coutts Manchester hosts Graphene 'The Miracle Material' dinner with Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
“We believe graphene is a material to watch. Through the Coutts Futurescope research papers, we’ve been informing clients about the potential of graphene. The research looked at the world with a 10 year horizon and identified aspects where rad
02/20/2014
Two Minutes, One Thought!
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours” - Milton Berle
02/20/2014
Sallie Krawcheck Was Right About Breakaways
Top producers remain on Wall Street for three reasons, although there are indications this could change over the next few years.
02/19/2014
Temenos CEO Sees Swiss Bank Mergers Boosting Software Sales
Swiss private banking mergers are creating sales opportunities for Temenos Group AG.
02/19/2014
China's rich beat a path to foreign shores
Legal uncertainty and appalling pollution at home are prompting wealthy Chinese to move themselves and their money abroad.
02/19/2014
A mansion tax would be equivalent to feasting on our economy’s seed corn
People do not much like paying taxes, yet there is rising demand for welfare and state services, and politicians fear taking the tough decisions needed to reallocate spending.
02/19/2014
March 19th – ‘A Budget for Votes’? by George Bull
With Budget Day exactly a month away, what’s likely to be in the Chancellor’s Red Box? Will the Chancellor make a single, dramatic gesture to win middle-income voter support?
02/18/2014
The Mathematic​s of Foreign Exchange
"When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” Lord Kelvin
02/17/2014
Yellen, Changing and Hiding? - Neil Staines, ECU
On Tuesday we suggested that the core focus of the market was likely to be the testimony of Janet Yellen and the UK Quarterly Inflation Report (QIR), presented by Mark Carney.
02/17/2014
Paltry pension propaganda
It seems everything about pensions is nearly always negative.
02/17/2014
Advertising industry leaders debate the value of awards
The word that underpinned most of the comments and discussions during the debate was 'integrity' - something that every client, agency and judge must operate with. [Only then can we] experience the true value of winning awards."
02/17/2014
Deloitte: Are businesses and Governments meeting Generation Y's demands and expectations?
Big demands and high expectations summarize the results of this year's Deloitte third annual Millennial Survey just released.
02/17/2014
2014 continues to be another positive year for risk assets: Barclays
Developed Equities Market positions move from neutral to modest overweight
02/14/2014
Big Spenders: The Rise Of The Spend-Out Foundation
The study of philanthropy is an imprecise science and there is no formula that can predict why a wealthy individual would decide to give and to which causes, much less why they would decide it’s time to stop.