05/01/2013
Retaining Talent Will Be the Biggest Challenge of 2013 - RESEARCH
With the survey highlighting escalating costs and a lack of engagement from employees, HR professionals find themselves under increasing pressure to make significant changes to their benefits package.
05/01/2013
Sun, sea & HMRC – offshore trusts under scrutiny in May by Gary Heynes
HMRC will be turning its attention to offshore trusts in May as part of their ongoing monthly campaigns to tackle tax evasion – and those caught out could end up spending their summer holidays behind the wrong kind of bars…
05/01/2013
Rumours of the death quantitative easing (QE) in the US have been greatly exaggerated.
05/01/2013
“Real assets, such as equities and property, could fare reasonably well during the next phase of the economic and market cycle”
04/30/2013
Global economic growth is likely to remain weak. But loose monetary policies, including low interest rates and quantitative easing, should continue to support risk asset prices throughout the rest of the year.
04/30/2013
The many reminiscences on the passing of Margaret Thatcher contrast her decisive radical economic policies with the consensus-building ineffectiveness of today’s political leaders.
04/30/2013
Evidence is building of a slowdown in global growth, repeating the pattern seen in recent years where a strong start to the year fades in the spring.
04/30/2013
You worry about all of it because it's going to be something we don't expect
04/29/2013
“The recent pick-up in the markets has led to an increase in positive sentiment towards equities, which is reflected in the latest Barings Investment Barometer."
04/29/2013
Banking giant predicts gold price collapse
ABN Amro, the Dutch state-owned banking giant, recently revised its global macro and gold outlook
04/28/2013
The question on everyone’s minds is: where does the story go from here?
04/28/2013
Western expatriates working as chief executive officers in Saudi Arabia are the highest paid executives in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, earning on average $ 35,294 a month. Arab CEOs in the Kingdom are the second-highest earners in the GCC, t
04/28/2013
The survey revealed sharp regional contrasts.
04/28/2013
Well it has been described as ‘insane’ and ‘ridiculous’ by both the head of the London Stock Exchange, Xavier Rolet, and Jim O’Neil the highly respected chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
04/28/2013
Altius Associates anticipates that institutional investor allocations to private infrastructure funds will grow dramatically over the next decade
04/27/2013
David Thompson, managing director of Elevate, AXA Wealth, comments on the publication of the final platform paper
04/25/2013
Emerging markets have become the engines of global growth as their global influence increases, leaving developed markets in their shade, according to HSBC Global Asset Management .
04/23/2013
If Europe has its wayhe Financial Transaction Tax will be introduced in the UK in just over eight months. It’s had a lot of bad publicity recently, but how seriously should we take its description as a ‘threat’ to the City?
04/23/2013
The strength of the euro is a new headwind for the beleaguered eurozone
04/22/2013
The latest labour market data showed an increase in unemployment, the February trade data deteriorated and bank lending to the business sector fell in February.