04/30/2012
Some South China Sea Sores x 3 by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Arguments with the Spratlys and the Paracels may sound like a tiresome family membership dispute at a local Surrey golf club.
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/30/2012
Can Money Mismanagement Kill Your Marriage?
How do you manage money as a couple without sacrificing your love or your portfolio?
04/30/2012
All Women Need to Do is Push Back
Rezvani also wrote the book "The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business."
04/30/2012
Spain's woes dominate as euro crisis lingering threat to investor sentiment - Rothschild Wealth Management
Reality is slowly returning to the eurozone. After the wave of enthusiasm that accompanied the ECB’s flood of cheap money to eurozone banks, tensions are now rising again, as the ECB’s tonic wears off.
04/27/2012
Banks lost track of their mission, values, RBC exec tells local audience
“That’s what we’re here to do, and we lost track with our mission purpose and values,” he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “Until we find our way back, we’re not going to be in a position to protect investors fr
04/26/2012
Central Bank gold purchases - an assessment of the impact
Central banks, taking advantage of depressed market prices, were again big buyers of gold this past March according to statistics just issued by the International Monetary Fund.
04/26/2012
After the storm, a glimmer of light?
As a case study in how not to make a Budget presentation, 21 March 2012 seems set to go down in history.
04/25/2012
The Demise of Western Wealth Creation is Overblown
But I am looking for something slightly offbeat, something unknown, below the surface of what the report authors think is the headline news.
04/24/2012
Party on! (Or not.) by Tim Price, Director of Investment, PFP Wealth Management
One may be doomed, but one can still party on
04/23/2012
Are diamonds the new gold for individual investors?
Investors and couples alike can buy diamonds on the retail market, but now there's a movement to create a way for individual investors to buy diamonds like gold.
04/20/2012
The charitable giving debate by George Bull
We may therefore see a transition from lifetime giving to legacies on death, to take advantage of the new inheritance tax relief.
04/18/2012
Software without the technology headaches
The industry is buzzing with new technology; and with new technology comes new buzzwords and phrases! “Cloud Computing”, “Software on Demand”, “Software as a Service”.
04/16/2012
The Seven Pearls; A Financial Guide To Empower Women
They take the mystery out of money, creating a map of how to make the best decisions possible to achieve your financial goals. I find this book to be revolutionary in its efforts, for if the female energy can come to balance the male in this economic syst
04/16/2012
Feeding the Dragon by Justin Urquhart Stewart
The Year of the Water Dragon, whilst normally providing good joss for those followers of Chinese astrology, is also proving to be a challenging one on various fronts.
04/16/2012
Women break into the City's old-boy network
The number of women trading the stock market is on the rise, according to City Index, one of the UK's leading providers of spread betting and foreign exchange trading.
04/13/2012
Reality bites: The truth about investment banking in Asia
For all Asia’s promise, investment bankers in the region face a host of challenges.
04/11/2012
The Science and Art of Investing Can Harm Your Returns
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
How the top bankers earn their fat salaries
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
The UK’s exciting growth prospects! – And the world’s worst Easter egg
So is the UK economy flat-lining?
04/05/2012
Millionaires Taking Over the World Through Real Estate?
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.