04/11/2012
The complex details are exhaustively set forth in the report. No one could quarrel with the stated goal, which is “to add alpha, or risk-adjusted excess returns, of greater than 2 percent annually to readily available indexes over a market cycle.&am
04/09/2012
Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for private banking at Emirates NBD, is primarily responsible for the investment products and portfolios of the bank's high-net-worth clients.
04/09/2012
So is the UK economy flat-lining?
04/05/2012
Monaco, U.K. and Switzerland are just some of the countries facing this dilemma but now there’s a new country ready to join their exclusive party: Singapore.
04/05/2012
Billionaire David Rubenstein, co-founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, says he's willing to pay more in taxes, but lawmakers need to do their job and change the law.
04/03/2012
THEY like a smoke and a drink, they shun vegetables and exercise, they have high blood pressure and cholesterol levels and are more at risk of developing diabetes and having heart attacks. And they're handling your money.
04/03/2012
I suppose it can be fun to stand for something.
04/01/2012
what does all this really mean for the investment process, the end-investor and the investment community?
03/30/2012
UBS cut one- and three-month targets for gold earlier this month.
03/30/2012
Roll up, roll up — everything in Britain is for sale
Part of RBS could be sold to Abu Dhabi. That’s no cause for alarm — we benefit from being open to investment
03/30/2012
The Budget proposal to restrict the availability of unlimited tax reliefs to a quarter of an individual’s income has aroused a great deal of concern that it will result in a fall in large scale donations to charity.
03/29/2012
In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right?
03/27/2012
Many of the leaders in the direct and database marketing field started their professional lives as bank marketers – your name was on a bank database and mixed into a predictive model before nearly any other industry started thinking of such things.
03/26/2012
Governing is planning - Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild
The unbelievable eight-fold increase in China's GDP in 33 years.
03/26/2012
The double-edged sword of the wealth continuum By Peter McKenna
Movement along the wealth continuum, the range where an investor’s wealth rises and falls, has intensified in recent times and brings with it a raft of challenges for wealth managers.
03/26/2012
China's Changing by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Just in case we hadn’t noticed, there are some significant issues going on in this burgeoning economy.
03/23/2012
The Chancellor’s key message was that Britain is open for business. Companies and individuals are welcome. But be sure to pay your taxes. However, there was a serious error of judgement in rushing out the tax increases for pensioners without showing
03/23/2012
At the moment, most investments of this sort are done offshore or kept within the free trade zone at the Singapore Freeport.
03/23/2012
A focus of investment for banks is on ensuring regulatory compliance and in assuring shareholders that they fully understand and can manage their risk exposures.
03/22/2012
Evolution, Natural Selection and Investment Reporting