06/24/2014
An Offshore Tax Haven Plans to Become the World's First Bitcoin Island
While many places around the world want nothing to do with Bitcoin, some locales are trying hard to make the cryptocurrency happen, not just in the murky international waters of cyberspace or the confines of a student-fuelled experiment, but as a real loc
06/23/2014
Both regulations and the structure of capital markets foster a culture of ‘passing the buck’
06/23/2014
"The lamps are going out all over Europe" was the first part of the famous and very prescient quote by Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War.
06/23/2014
Recent minutes and statements from the major central banks reveal that the US economy is in the Goldilocks zone – not too hot (think UK housing), not too cold (think eurozone deflation threat), but just right.
06/19/2014
IHT – have the wheels finally come off? by Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly
Recent figures have revealed that nearly a quarter of a million families are expected to pay Inheritance Tax over the next five years.
06/19/2014
. For the rich and powerful, the family unit has been the principal institution through which power is accumulated, preserved and propagated, precisely because the interest is multi-generational, requiring long-term planning and strategy.
06/18/2014
The flagship event of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry took place last week in Vienna. It was striking to see how the dialogue is moving on from regulatory implementation to investment, jobs and growth.
06/18/2014
Zen and the art of fund management
I'd like to start by making a confession: it's never been easy being me.
06/17/2014
Life is Too Short to Drink Cheap Wine
That means having fun
06/16/2014
An experiment in which computer 'monkeys' picked random stocks has produced better results than stock market trackers
06/16/2014
Fracturing Fiefdoms by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Fracking - it seems that we are now getting used to the unpleasant nomenclature attached to fracturing rocks to extract various types of gas. However, in the UK we are about to enter the period of political fracking which will also result in the release o
06/16/2014
Here we go with my all-time England 11 from watching the Three Lions over 20 years.
06/16/2014
Following many years of high investment spending the energy sector now seems to be focussing on capex discipline and cash generation.
06/13/2014
Vonnegut: Bitcoin's Place in Wealth Management
Every financial adviser knows this story in one form or another. It is Friday afternoon, 10 minutes to the market close.
06/12/2014
Last nail in the coffin for trusts? by Gary Heynes
Last Friday’s consultation on changes to the way IHT trust charges are calculated is the latest in a series of assaults which are leading to the demise of trusts, but could we end up with a tax system that encourages wealth to be passed on to very y
06/12/2014
European businesses need to cut expenses to help kick-start the region’s recovery, according to one of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's chief investment officers.
06/09/2014
Outsourcing investment: Why Independent Advisers (Scotland) uses Standard Life Wealth
We only started using Standard Life Wealth in the past year
06/09/2014
A Banking Spring? by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Only four years ago we all felt the demolition ball crash into much of the UK banking sector as banks collapsed and failed.
06/09/2014
Reading the recent New York Magazine piece on Steve Cohen, the billionaire hedge-fund manager of SAC Capital, two themes emerge: he hates fame and he likes to be feared.
06/05/2014
Brewin Dolphin wealth management provides their latest comments following the Queen’s speech