05/19/2013
How many mobile handsets must a human have?!
A stray news item piqued my interest a few days ago, one statistic stood out among the hundreds hurled daily at us by the new, old and adolescent media formats.
Comment & Analysis
05/19/2013
10 Countries Anxiously Watching Their Massive Gold Hoards Fall In Value
A report highlighting the countries sitting on the biggest official gold reserves.
05/19/2013
Pension trustee decision-making: Fishing for a solution?
The scope of the Rule has been narrowed by the Supreme Court's judgment.
05/19/2013
A Gold Forecast that Will Shock the World
Should it really surprise us the gold experts have been so badly wrong about the direction of bullion prices?
05/19/2013
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - "Quo Vadis QE"
Abenomics clearly seems to be working
05/18/2013
BIS and IMF attacks on quantitative easing deeply misguided warn monetarists
Monetarists across the world have warned that the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements are making an historic error by calling for a withdrawal of emergency stimulus before the global economy has fully recovered.
05/16/2013
Amundi reaffirms its commitment to corporate governance
In 2012, Amundi focused on remuneration issues.
05/16/2013
Harvard & Stockholm duo scoop Standard Life Investments finance prize
The award forms part of the European Corporate Governance Institute’s 2013 Working Paper Competition
05/16/2013
Darth (E)Vader – or is that Avoider?
You say evader and I say avoider.
05/15/2013
Global investor confidence set to return during 2013 – Asia seen as engine for growth
However, the report also highlighted a divergence between what investors think is the most attractive region for growth and their actual investment planning.
05/14/2013
Eurozone remains main concern for nearly three quarters of advisers - RESEARCH
Eurozone growth remains the main concern amongst intermediaries, with 71% seeing it as one of the biggest macro-economic challenges to investment growth over the next six months, according to the latest Baring Asset Management Investment Barometer.
05/13/2013
Listen to Bernanke - Coutts
Global View From Asia -13 May 13
05/13/2013
Managing the people side of risk
Companies can create a powerful risk culture without turning the organization upside down.
05/13/2013
Asian institutions expected to increase quantitative investment allocations - RESEARCH
Asian institutions expected to increase quantitative investment allocations, according to Greenwich Associates report commissioned by BlackRock
05/12/2013
Bans on Short Selling can Lead to Adverse Herding Among Investors
Examined bans on selected financial stocks in six countries during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis
05/12/2013
BMO Global Asset Management Makes the Case for Frontier Market Equities
Lloyd George Management's Dafydd Lewis at 5th Annual Make A Difference Conference
05/12/2013
Why Tooth Fairy puts tax-dodger Santa, God of Wealth to shame
God of Wealth's operation felt like a tax- reduction dodge
05/12/2013
Tax & Recovery? by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Now hang on – there is nothing new about this.
05/12/2013
Fairness in tax – music to Osborne’s ears?
Why is it one rule for them and another for the music community?
05/09/2013
The “Invisible Touch” of central bankers has changed the world and financial markets, creating both opportunities and worrying distortions. -View from Psigma
It is no exaggeration to say that the world changed after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-9.