10/06/2013
More Housing Hokum by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The latest „Help to Buy‟ plans, much vaunted by our esteemed politicians at their party conference last week, seems to have been not quite as popular with some of the banks as had originally been implied.
10/06/2013
The proportion of female directors of FTSE 100 companies has risen to 19 per cent, a study has revealed, up from 12.5 per cent two years ago.
10/06/2013
While the US political impasse may provide further disruption to the market, we very much doubt that the government will default on its debt obligations. It has left all non-essential government activities closed.
10/06/2013
Headcount is climbing as firms gear up for renewed growth.
10/06/2013
Axa Wealth’s £1.8m fine shows firm failed to take its own findings seriously and was more concerned with hitting sales targets.
10/06/2013
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of losers
10/06/2013
Bank of England governor's move to persuade markets that interest rates will not immediately rise has provoked scepticism
10/05/2013
US politicians have allowed large swathes of the Federal Government to shut down because they cannot agree a budget for the fiscal year that started on 1st October.
10/03/2013
As of year-end 2012, the institutional market held $14.5 trillion in assets under management
10/03/2013
WEALTH management was seen as one of the great Australian growth industries of the 21st century.
10/03/2013
Money tends to flow to markets with better infrastructure and liquidity
10/03/2013
Last week HMRC wrote to everyone affected by the UK/Switzerland tax agreement asking them to come clean as to whether they owe tax or not.
10/03/2013
Sixty-one percent of high-net-worth Americans said they are better off today than they were before the 2008 recession
10/03/2013
Global Warning – the heat is on
10/03/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch - 4 October 2013
10/02/2013
Our portfolios are slowly becoming more cyclical
10/02/2013
There is a lack of knowledge among advisors, which leads to poor investment and fund management decisions
10/02/2013
The study found that the majority of affluent Canadians (54 per cent) feel they are better off now than they were before September 2008
10/01/2013
Who would want to be a bank boss?
10/01/2013
Despite limits to potential upside, equities remain preferred asset class as markets enjoy abundant liquidity