03/10/2013
About this time last year, Bob Diamond's pay package seemed to have triggered a new anger in investors. Looking back now, it seems the headlines were better than the reality
03/10/2013
'He's gone now so history tells me I was right': Bob Diamond, formerly of Barclays
03/10/2013
Canadian portfolio manager Barbara Stewart releases ground-breaking research into how women are pursuing their passions and investing for the future
03/10/2013
For students who already have the English skills, top boarding schools provide an international perspective that they won’t encounter anywhere else.
03/10/2013
I have some serious concerns about both private and public Chinese property and some of the infrastructure as well.
03/10/2013
Sometimes young women tell me they admire what I’ve done
03/10/2013
Middle East intermediaries are more optimistic on global economic growth than in 2012
03/10/2013
It may sound strange to say it – but investors are taking little risk even though markets are going up.
03/07/2013
$26,000 cocktails. Traffic jams freckled with Ferraris. The world's sternest city is now the richest. Why?
03/06/2013
When Morrissey first wrote the lyrics “I would rather not go back to the old house, there’s too many bad memories there” in 1983, I doubt he imagined them capturing the feelings of investors and politicians thirty years later.
03/06/2013
An unsuspecting investor ticks the wrong box on a form and finds himself with a tax bill for just over half a million dollars. The lessons in tax law a recent tribunal can teach us.
03/05/2013
Four years on they remain at historic lows – and there’s no sign they will rise any day soon.
03/05/2013
Chinese and Indian policymakers need to deliver better news
03/04/2013
It was reported that the banks were lending less, in spite of all the promises by Vince Cable and others of funding for lending and yet more Quantitative Easing.
03/04/2013
US economic surprises have swung back to positive, bucking the weaker trend that continues to mar most other developed markets.
03/04/2013
Beijing’s renewed policy curbs on property prices and tighter credit conditions should cap any rebound in equities.
03/04/2013
The number of female business owners in Asia is still trailing levels seen amongst their male counterparts and below the global average, according to a new research report from Barclays Wealth & Investment Management.
03/03/2013
Double whammy for owners of foreign homes
With only five weeks left before the end of the tax year, it’s time to see if you could be making better use of personal and business allowances to minimise your tax liability. Plus a reduction in the top rate of tax is introduced from the 6 April &
03/03/2013
Voting in Italy. About the only clear vote we are going to get this year in Italy is likely to be the selection of the new Pope and, whilst he will be a powerful man, he won’t be able to solve Italy’s financial issues.
03/03/2013
Recession seems to be loosening its grip on Europe, but the ongoing stabilization is unlikely to make room for growth.