02/11/2013
Five massive foundational shifts are impacting financial service providers of all types, and they are impacting those that serve affluent clients in especially unique ways.
02/11/2013
This month, alongside our usual economic and market reviews, we cover four topics.
02/11/2013
Standard Life Investments suggests that it is much harder for countries to make the transition from emerging to developed economies than was previously commonly thought.
02/10/2013
Inequality has grown sharply over the past 15 years
02/10/2013
Can a fund get too large for its fund manager to handle?
02/10/2013
The $98.5 billion takeover of ABN proved to be a disastrously mis-timed acquisition, defining the M&A peak of the credit bubble in 2007.
02/10/2013
The survey – unveiled as part of a report titled, Retail Bank Pricing: Resetting Customer Expectations – finds that there is considerable aversion to price increases, with many consumers believing that banks are not being fair in raising fees.
02/10/2013
Three regulatory deficiencies were leading contributing causes of the financial crisis
02/10/2013
Timely indicators have been brightening up, painting a picture of strengthening global investment spending in the short term.
02/07/2013
The spectre of political risk has returned to European bond markets as scandal embroils the Spanish government and anti-reform sentiment grows in Italy.
02/07/2013
East China's Shanghai wives have more power in managing their family wealth, research has found.
02/07/2013
This month marks the beginning of the Year of the Black Water Snake in the Chinese lunar calendar.
02/07/2013
China’s currency is moving steadily toward internationalisation, with offshore renminbi (Rmb) deposits likely to exceed Rmb1trn ($160bn) within a few years.
02/06/2013
"It's a money room at an undisclosed location."
02/06/2013
But the advent of an experienced executive in a senior role at Schroders, shortly after chief executive Michael Dobson passed his 11th anniversary in the job in October, has sparked talk about succession.
02/06/2013
Returns from Asian markets in 2012 exceeded all expectations – with the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan index up 22.7%.
02/05/2013
Aon was recognized for its strong female leadership profile, its initiatives aimed at empowering women and its overall commitment to developing and advancing women across all levels of the firm.
02/05/2013
Invesco Perpetual’s Simon Laing shares his views on opportunities in the US and the broader economic issues that need to tackling in 2013
02/04/2013
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world”, said George Bernard Shaw.
02/04/2013
Investor sentiment improved somewhat during the final quarter of 2012, in response to better economic data trends in the US and China, and a view that central bank actions had reduced downside tail risks.