12/16/2012
In 2013, the developed world will continue to suffer the hangover of a rather heady cocktail - deleveraging, rising unemployment, low corporate and consumer confidence, and financial retrenchment.
12/16/2012
Despite sell-side investment of more than $1 billion in IT systems since 2010, the study suggests that many will be scrambling to invest at the last-minute if proposed 2013 deadlines are finalised.
12/13/2012
She is heard to ask: "But people had got a bit...lax
12/13/2012
The night before Christmas
12/13/2012
Racing to the scene of an emergency with sirens wailing and blue lights flashing – is it a police officer or a paramedic perhaps? Erm no it’s just the tax man….
12/13/2012
Fed votes for an equity bull market
12/13/2012
BNY Mellon - Rule Financial paper highlights pressing need for institutional investors to explore alternative sources of collateral
12/12/2012
Coutts today launches the Coutts 2013 investment outlook, highlighting Coutts’ view of the five main investment risks and ten opportunities.
12/12/2012
As demand for gold and other precious metals has continued to grow, investors have increasingly adopted physically-secured ETPs as their vehicle of choice.
12/11/2012
Now that (at least some of) the detailed legislation has been published, time is of the essence if action is to be taken before the proposed rules come into force.
12/11/2012
Donald Gasper says the city is putting its global role at risk with moves to tighten regulation
12/11/2012
Cerulli believes that Chinese investors will walk away from their direct equity culture
12/10/2012
One of the factors behind London’s “good recession” is the sharp increase in wealth in emerging markets, according to one economist
12/10/2012
Women with a finance background are at a distinct advantage over men when applying for board roles, a new Cranfield report looking at women on boards reveals.
12/09/2012
Probably the best investment marketing acronym of the past decade has to be the term BRIC or more recently BRICS with the addition of the S.
12/09/2012
Russell Napier has written the book on bear markets. Specifically, the book is titled ‘Anatomy of the Bear: lessons from Wall Street’s four great bottoms’, and it comes highly recommended.
12/09/2012
CEOs of Australia’s financial services industry believe that the cost and complexity of regulation is crippling productivity growth at a national and industry level according to the Financial Services Council-DST Global Solutions CEO Report, release
12/09/2012
Check that you are not overexposed to bonds
12/06/2012
Wealth Manager Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) has picked what it calls five winning and five losing strategies for 2013. Notably, the firm sees opportunities in US mortgaged-backed securities, emerging markets debt and gold.
12/06/2012
Katherine Nixon is chief investment officer for the personal financial services business at Northern Trust.