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.
03/09/2012
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
03/05/2012
Just when Europe might be congratulating itself on heading off imminent disaster, the threat of soaring crude prices looms over world economies again
02/20/2012
Learning a lesson from the Americans
Following my comments about the missing financial infrastructure in the UK, I was recently comparing the US banking and financial structures with our own.
02/16/2012
US banking industry to reach US$14 Trillion in terms of assets by 2015 - study
In the global scenario, bright prospects are appearing from the emerging markets. Banking Total Shareholder Returns (TSRs) were considerably higher than the global average, for Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
01/25/2012
The survey was published as CEOs including Mark Parker of Nike Inc. and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America Corp. gather in the Swiss ski resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.
01/19/2012
Risk Appetite Back to Pre-Third Quarter Crisis Levels
12/30/2011
I have to say that I am sick to death of all the doom-mongers and depressants that seem to be continuously preaching to us at the moment.
12/26/2011
International investor Jim Rogers says he is short emerging markets including Singapore, where he now lives.
12/20/2011
We will begin with the Top 10 Surprises issued on December 17th by an analyst at UBS, and what they could foresee in the markets and economy for the coming year.
11/21/2011
There has been a strong and troubling shift in market rewards for a small minority relative to the rewards available to most citizens.
11/16/2011
In today's astoundingly unequal global economy, banks can go either of two routes -- or both -- to bag ever bigger returns.
08/31/2011
Who Is the Best Person to Run Bank of America?
08/31/2011
The National Inflation Association - http://inflation.us - today released the following inflation update to its NIA members:
08/01/2011
Selecting the right wealth management system can be a tricky decision.
08/01/2011
As usual, the recent Jersey Finance visit to Hong Kong and China was an organised frenzy of meetings, events, breakneck travel and careful diplomacy.
08/01/2011
Journalists in Canada, our good neighbor to the north, suddenly have discovered something about their country that I have been telling you for a long time.
08/01/2011
The Bahamas, while only 38-years-old as an independent country, is rich in history with the oldest democracy and one of the longest established international financial services sector in the region.
06/30/2011
In DST Global Solutions’ latest White Paper, Graeme Condie, Sales Director - UK, Europe and Middle East, explores the challenges many wealth management firms are facing in view of increasingly sophisticated investors demanding ever more transparency
06/16/2011
I do understand the term 'rebalancing the economy.'