10/23/2014
Rodney FitzGerald on diversifying revenue at Walker Crips
Investors are constantly being told to diversify, so shouldn’t the same argument apply to running a business? Walker Crips chief executive Rodney FitzGerald thinks so.
10/23/2014
Termination payments – is complexity sometimes a price worth paying? by Andrew Hubbard, Baker Tilly
As tax advisers we rightly pride ourselves on our knowledge of the UK tax system.
10/23/2014
Home, but not free by Glyn Owen, Investment Director at Momentum Global Investment Management
As we surface from the financial crisis, it is clear that the conditions we face today are no less extraordinary than those we have faced in recent years.
10/22/2014
A good investment adviser is a tricky set of skills to hire, and high-end financial advice firms are struggling to find the right talent at present.
10/20/2014
What has proved less clear, however, is how the Europeans can become household names able to compete with well-known domestic American managers.
10/20/2014
Last week we saw a bursting of some of the complacency of the past few months.
10/20/2014
Luxembourg is the largest investment fund centre in Europe and the second largest in the world after the US.
10/19/2014
When you are super-rich who can you trust?
They may have yachts, fancy cars and private jets. But pity the super rich. They’re miserable.
10/17/2014
After David Cameron hinted earlier this week that inheritance tax should not apply to people who didn’t feel ‘mega-rich’, why can’t this logic apply to higher rate taxpayers?
10/17/2014
A Finance Manifesto
10/16/2014
There the world’s analysts and investors were, thinking they had hours to go before Jamie Dimon’s banking behemoth’s profits came out, when Bang! There they were, splashed all over the City’s trading screens.
10/15/2014
The Head of Credit Suisse’s private bank in Asia on wealth management in the region, and his outlook for Asia.
10/15/2014
Many leading bankers are proud to say they started at the bottom of the field and worked their way to the top.
10/12/2014
History does not repeat - well that is my view - but it does resonate.
10/12/2014
There are two ways of learning how to ride a fractious horse
10/10/2014
People think of it as a risky business but it's not really
10/10/2014
Through their actions, the central banks are making life hard for savers who are not prepared to take risks and who traditionally favour money-market investments rather than term deposits or savings accounts.
10/10/2014
Facebook – a great way to share all the latest news and photos with your friends and family. But changes to the way that HMRC communicates with the public could see you getting a ‘poke’ from the taxman sometime soon…
10/10/2014
"In the low return environment that we foresee, there is a strong reason to refocus on 'Return of Capital and Return on Capital', which requires a cogent investment process as the foundation of the wealth management business," recommen
10/09/2014
Invesco Perpetual’s Chief Economist John Greenwood gives his view on the sub-par performance of the global economy and warns of slow improvement in 2015