04/04/2013
Big pay ‘made Barclays bosses feel above rules’
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
Comment & Analysis
04/04/2013
VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly
Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’
04/04/2013
West End Front - Thomas Becket, Psigma
As a child of the bear market, I have been used to changing trends, but the stark underperformance of Emerging Market (EM) equities versus developed world equities is not something we have become used to in rising markets.
04/04/2013
HBOS ex-bosses face calls for City bans
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/04/2013
Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life
Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.
04/04/2013
Millionaires Got $80 Million in Jobless Aid in Recession
“So many people are taking advantage of government support that they probably feel like, why shouldn’t they take advantage of it, too?” said George Walper Jr., president of the Spectrem Group
04/03/2013
A New BRICS Development Bank: Will It Work for Women?
A new BRICS bank indeed raises important questions
04/02/2013
Younger Investors Are a Different Breed - RESEARCH
Many Wealthy Millennials Need Help Preparing for Family Money
04/02/2013
Francis first real challenge: re-structuring the scandal ridden Vatican bank
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/02/2013
Most Knowledgeable Affluent Investors More Likely to Pursue Overseas Job Opportunities
Taking risk and financial knowledge are two hallmarks of the Affluent investor
04/01/2013
A shot across the bow at fund directors
The SEC last stepped up its monitoring of mutual fund directors after the late-trading and market-timing scandals
04/01/2013
​Shakespeare was a tax evader & black marketeer?
A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food
04/01/2013
How not to run a currency – or potentially how to create a run on a currency?
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
04/01/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Driving with the handbrake on
Do you know what it's like to drive a car with the handbrake on?
04/01/2013
Coutts warns clients of threat from debt markets amid bubble fears
Coutts, the high-end private bank, has warned its clients against exposing their fortunes to a potential collapse of the high-yield debt market amid growing concerns of a new global credit bubble.
04/01/2013
Half of U.S. women fear becoming "bag ladies"
Women control a larger share of personal wealth in the U.S. than ever
03/31/2013
Off target
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees
03/31/2013
DBS a more efficient outfit now, says CEO
"We are now centrally managed, there is now a standardised policy framework, we are more efficient and effective."
03/31/2013
Schroders ‘set for the premier league’
Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.