07/15/2013
Survey Finds Investors Still Confident In Global Growth Despite China Doubts - BofA Merrill Lynch
Allocations to Equity Rise, Bonds Increasingly Undesired
Comment & Analysis
07/15/2013
Survey: One in Four on Wall Street Open to Insider Trading
If public confidence in Wall Street remains battered from the financial crisis, a new survey of ethics in the financial services industry is unlikely to help.
07/14/2013
Citi's World of Promise
The banking giant's new CEO vows to wring more profit from its global franchise. Why shareholders should pay heed.
07/14/2013
Update on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
The SEI Knowledge Partnership spoke with Barry McGrath, partner at Maples & Calder, and Frank Gannon, partner at KPMG, to consider how the AIFMD will affect the way in which non-EU AIFMs are permitted to market AIFs into the European Union and the mai
07/14/2013
Patsies by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management
So the OBR reckons that the PPI repayments have done more to help the economy than all the other stuff the chancellor is trying to do put together!
07/14/2013
Getting real value out of the Royal Mail
Certain stockbrokers will be licking their lips at such potential volumes of trades if the Royal Mail privatisation actually goes ahead
07/14/2013
Goodbye to the end of the world by Chris Darbyshire, 7IM
The investor habitat is changing.
07/14/2013
China’s Curbs on Bank Lending - Pioneer Investments
Are there any real implications for the world economy?
07/13/2013
China Wealth Eluding Foreigners as Equities Earn 1% for 20 Years
China is a case in point that great GDP doesn’t mean a great stock market
07/12/2013
The Credit Crisis May Not Be China's Biggest Problem
The best investment ideas rarely come from the latest news item or brokerage research report
07/11/2013
CLO activity up more than 300% since 2011 - Appleby
Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) deals increased by a dramatic 151% in the first half of 2013 when compared to the first six months of 2012, according to Appleby.
07/10/2013
Have tax havens had their day in the sun?
Daniel Ben-Ami examines the moral offensive against tax avoidance and the part played by offshore centres.
07/10/2013
Fed's Potential Tapering Tempers Investment Managers' Outlook - Northern Trust
The survey of approximately 100 investment managers was taken June 6-21
07/10/2013
Campervan fame for fund manager
EADERS may remember Seven Investment Management co-founder Justin Urquhart Stewart as the fund manager who chatted sock colours with the new Bank of England boss Mark Carney on the central line last week
07/09/2013
The Chart That Has Everyone Freaked Out About A Chinese Credit Crisis
Shibor is more or less the China’s version of LIBOR
07/09/2013
Thinking About Buying a Bank? Consider Canada
When American investors consider buying stock of a bank, the first ones that usually come to mind are the dominant forces in American banking
07/08/2013
Carney: a roar not a whimper - St. James's Place
Carney: a roar not a whimper Words, as central bankers and markets know, can have a devastating effect.
07/07/2013
Enter the Guv’nor by Tim Price, director of investment, PFP Wealth Management
It is difficult to know quite where to start in extolling the virtues of this semi-mythical godlike being who has just descended to earth to take up his new position at the central bank of the United Kingdom.
07/07/2013
Great Freight by Justin Urquhart Stewart
For those who know me, they will understand that I am a big fan of trains and am often to be found enjoying an afternoon’s heavy shunting somewhere outside Newark
07/07/2013
“Forward guidance”, Spending Round 2013 and some better economic news
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses “forward guidance”, the “Spending Round 2013” and some encouraging economic news.