03/26/2012
The double-edged sword of the wealth continuum By Peter McKenna
Movement along the wealth continuum, the range where an investor’s wealth rises and falls, has intensified in recent times and brings with it a raft of challenges for wealth managers.
03/26/2012
China's Changing by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Just in case we hadn’t noticed, there are some significant issues going on in this burgeoning economy.
03/23/2012
The Chancellor’s key message was that Britain is open for business. Companies and individuals are welcome. But be sure to pay your taxes. However, there was a serious error of judgement in rushing out the tax increases for pensioners without showing
03/23/2012
At the moment, most investments of this sort are done offshore or kept within the free trade zone at the Singapore Freeport.
03/23/2012
A focus of investment for banks is on ensuring regulatory compliance and in assuring shareholders that they fully understand and can manage their risk exposures.
03/22/2012
Evolution, Natural Selection and Investment Reporting
03/22/2012
Gilt yields were broadly unchanged after the fiscally neutral UK budget kept to the planned course of cutting the deficit and stabilising the national debt over the course of the current parliament.
03/22/2012
Hesitating between new-found confidence and resurgent doubts, Patrick Ségal, former member of the Executive Comittee, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the global economy. He doesn't mince his words in his comments on France
03/19/2012
Have you noticed how the speed of corporate ageing seems to have been rising exponentially - corporate histories seem to have an ageing process worthy of various characters out of a Rider Haggard ripping yarn.
03/19/2012
You are about to experience the most unbelievable week in America ever, and we have to prepare for the absolutely worst case,Dimon told his staff..
03/19/2012
BMO Harris Private Banking today released its latest market commentary report, Equities Advance as Fears Ease. The report notes an improvement in the outlook for the eurozone and a continued advance in global equity markets.
03/15/2012
It seems that economic strategy has shifted from fostering growth to shoring up government finances.
03/15/2012
Does it make sense for longer-term investors to hold government bonds when better yields are available from dividends?
03/14/2012
Earlier in the week, writing for the Business Spectator website, Turnbull launched into a very silly call for Australia to launch a sovereign wealth fund.
03/13/2012
The research claims that even though Britons are three times richer than they were in 1952, and UK GDP has dramatically increased, so has the Government's budget deficit.
03/09/2012
It’s hard to feel too sympathetic for wealthy financiers caught behaving badly. But considering the stress of the job, and simple statistics, it shouldn’t be too shocking to hear of Wall Streeters stabbing a cabbie or defecating in public. Mor
03/08/2012
Here’s the big irony: if a mansion tax is to be sustainable year by year rather than simply bleeding a section of society, then it has to rely on continuing economic growth.
03/07/2012
Buffett, in his annual letter to shareholders last month, said investors should avoid gold because its uses are limited and it doesn’t have the potential of farmland or companies to produce new wealth.
03/07/2012
We believe the potential for negative events in Europe will keep the euro on the defensive against the dollar and sterling, but the downside looks limited in the near term given investors in general are already broadly holding negative positions.
03/06/2012
it’s becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money.