11/21/2012
Asia's Hot Spot for Bank Jobs Gets Tough—for Expats
One of the key destinations for financial jobs, Singapore is fast losing its lure as bank layoffs threaten the once robust job market in this Southeast Asian city state.
11/20/2012
The member states of the European Monetary Union are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game as they struggle to find the right answers, accountabilities and policy options.
11/20/2012
Eurozone finance ministers discuss Greece (again)
11/20/2012
The European Central Bank (ECB) has been criticised for “kicking the can down the road”
11/19/2012
The first in-depth investigation of whether youthful happiness leads to greater wealth in later life reveals that, even allowing for other influences, happy adolescents are likely to earn more money as adults.
11/19/2012
Income investing is not new. What is new are the challenges faced by investors in creating a portfolio with the right level both of income and risk in this low yield, low growth, more uncertain world.
11/19/2012
ECB buys time for improvement in Eurozone periphery
11/19/2012
I guess it's almost that time of the year; 'out with the old and in with the new'. Maybe 'out with the old and in with the booze' might be more appropriate as we approach 'trifle season'.
11/18/2012
Go East: banking jobs in Asia set to outstrip City
Bankers looking for a career boost are facing up to a clear choice: go East.
11/18/2012
"We have a tremendous amount of confidence in Singapore," said Chaly Mah, CEO of Deloitte Asia-Pacific and Deloitte Southeast Asia.
11/18/2012
Is this another classic British example of being by-passed by technology and innovation, as well as blended with poor management and archaic trade unions?
11/18/2012
*Europa, in Greek mythology, after whom the continent of Europe was ultimately named, was abducted by Zeus in the form of a white bull. Apparently.
11/18/2012
The 2012 "shareholder spring" over executive pay was an illusion, with the real battles likely to come over the next two years, according to a report.
11/15/2012
A central question of both the book and the film was: how could a small-market, small-budget baseball team like the Oakland A’s compete against teams from larger markets that had the resources to pay top dollar for superstar players?
11/15/2012
That is one of the issues that Canada's wealth management industry faces as it grapples with the challenge of attracting Gen Y's as both advisers and clients in an age when chronically poor returns have taken the shine off investing and financia
11/15/2012
The tally of nearly 160,000 job cut plans, meanwhile, is likely to be a conservative estimate as smaller banks and brokers are also cutting staff or shutting up shop, and bigger banks have not always disclosed target numbers of layoffs.
11/14/2012
Each report contains analysis and market forecasts based on a survey of over 700 operational and hiring managers asked about their expectations for hiring and employment over the next six to 12 months.
11/14/2012
The paper also examines the different technology approaches – whether to buy, sell or outsource – that private wealth managers can take when augmenting their tax services.
11/14/2012
Skandia International has published a new study into consumer confidence and sentiment towards wealth which was carried out across the territories relevant to Skandia International / Old Mutual Wealth.
11/14/2012
The price of happiness is US$162,000
The research, conducted with 5000 people across 13 territories