04/07/2013
I was pleased to hear the City grandee lawyer Anthony Salz, right, in his independent review of Barclays' corporate culture last week, echo a point that I've been making for some time about bankers' pay.
04/07/2013
Australians unhappier than 'whingeing Pom' Brits
Australians have been forced to abandon their traditional taunting of Britons as “whingeing Poms” after a survey found they were less happy despite enjoying growing wealth and a much stronger economy.
04/07/2013
The best-off 10 per cent of households have an estimated average per household of £1.82million
04/07/2013
"The developed world, in general, has more challenges fiscally than the developing world,"
04/07/2013
We are very cautious, and these are well-priced deals
04/07/2013
The financial and entrepreneurial ambitions of today’s generation of high net worths and family offices require sustainable ideas to promote future wealth
04/04/2013
The Bloomberg Markets third annual ranking of the world's greenest banks evaluates the efforts of financial institutions to invest in clean energy and reduce their own waste and carbon footprints.
04/04/2013
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
04/04/2013
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/04/2013
Investors need to be aware of unintended consequences - Standard Life
Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.
04/04/2013
“So many people are taking advantage of government support that they probably feel like, why shouldn’t they take advantage of it, too?” said George Walper Jr., president of the Spectrem Group
04/03/2013
A new BRICS bank indeed raises important questions
04/02/2013
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/02/2013
Taking risk and financial knowledge are two hallmarks of the Affluent investor
04/01/2013
A shot across the bow at fund directors
The SEC last stepped up its monitoring of mutual fund directors after the late-trading and market-timing scandals
04/01/2013
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
Time bomb to the next crash is ticking as debt sales surge
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
04/01/2013
Do you know what it's like to drive a car with the handbrake on?
04/01/2013
Coutts, the high-end private bank, has warned its clients against exposing their fortunes to a potential collapse of the high-yield debt market amid growing concerns of a new global credit bubble.
03/31/2013
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees