06/06/2012
While there is some truth in the assertion that the top end of the wealth continuum is increasingly looking for institutional-style performance analytics, it is a fallacy to see the needs of wealth managers as some kind of “institutional lite”
06/05/2012
Just like Alice in her glorious Wonderland, all is seemingly not quite what it seems. Certainly this appears to be the case when it comes to the economy.
06/05/2012
By launching your Investing with Impact Platform, you can change the world — literally.
05/28/2012
The flotation of the world's largest social network has, appropriately, become a social event.
05/28/2012
Gold drifted lower early in the week as the Euro continued to weaken against the US Dollar. By Thursday, the metal had recovered as the euro stemmed its losses after a softer-than-expected US manufacturing report.
05/28/2012
In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the latest developments in the Eurozone and provides an update on the UK.
05/24/2012
Anybody who studies the way in which new tax law is made knows that impact assessments are undertaken at key points in the process.
05/23/2012
Last November, the IPO deal of the day was Groupon. On the first day of trading, shares rose to a high of $31 from an initial offering price of $20.
05/22/2012
The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the UK rose 4.7 per cent last year, surpassing a previous high set before the 2008 financial crisis. The result is a new global elite, living lives of luxury and privilege the rest of us can hardly fathom
05/22/2012
Incentives have become so complex and volatile that they no longer motivate the executives they are aimed at
05/21/2012
Mark Twain once said that "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes".
05/18/2012
The word on the street is that HMRC’s High Net Worth Unit (HNWU) is gaining favour in high places at HM Treasury.
05/17/2012
Different images of dragons shape Eastern and Western mythology: the connotation is one of strength and confidence in the East, but threat and chaos in the West.
05/16/2012
Indeed since 2008-09 and since the depths of the crisis, the recovery that we have had has been driven by massive fiscal and monetary stimulus which cannot be sustained.
05/16/2012
Political rather than economic considerations are increasingly pushing Greece towards a euro exit.
05/15/2012
This “east-east” corridor, named after ancient trade routes linking Asia with the Middle East, saw trade volumes quadruple over the past decade.
05/14/2012
To give credit where credit is due, in their first two years the Coalition Government has seen through some tax changes which were already in the pipeline.
05/14/2012
Imagine you are one of two people playing 'Monopoly'. While you follow the rules religiously, the other player – who also happens to be the banker – does not.
05/14/2012
Maybe the changes of last weekend might just be the catalyst for change that we have been waiting for to finally get things moving in Euroland and to try and break this seemingly intractable euro impasse.
05/11/2012
“Do more with less,” is the mantra of consultants and the marching orders of senior executives. In today’s world of increased competition and compressed margins, companies want methods to improve efficiency. Automation is the “lo