02/26/2014
London and Singapore are two of the world’s leading international financial centres and play similar roles as financial hubs and major asset management centres for Europe and Asia respectively.
02/26/2014
Is the euro area’s continued equity rally overdone – particularly given the dismal economic reality in Europe’s south?
02/26/2014
There's little doubt that an economic recovery is well underway in much of the developed world. In the US, the most obvious demonstration of that is the Federal Reserve's determination to decrease its bond purchases, which have now fallen to US$
02/26/2014
Following consultation with Baker Tilly and other concerned groups, HMRC has published revised guidance on the new tax rules for salaried members of LLPs.
02/25/2014
Gold is the best-performing asset class in the year to date, with prices going up by close to 10%.
02/25/2014
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy
02/24/2014
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
More and more Singaporeans are protesting against the influx of foreigners. What exactly is contributing to this xenophobia?
02/23/2014
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
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
The financial world has been rocked over the past few weeks as seven bankers have died, several of those committing suicide.
02/21/2014
“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
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours” - Milton Berle
02/20/2014
Top producers remain on Wall Street for three reasons, although there are indications this could change over the next few years.
02/19/2014
Swiss private banking mergers are creating sales opportunities for Temenos Group AG.
02/19/2014
Legal uncertainty and appalling pollution at home are prompting wealthy Chinese to move themselves and their money abroad.
02/19/2014
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
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
"When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” Lord Kelvin
02/17/2014
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.