Police warn on IRA threat September 15, 2010 CITY banks yesterday received a stark warning from the City of London Police that the threat of terrorism is “real and ever-present”, after the Real IRA warned it had made banks and their staff a potential target for attack. The force said that the official terrorist threat level had not been raised because of the [...]
Recession teaching kids to save March 15, 2010 Young children have been hard hit by the recession but have learned the importance of saving, new research from YouGov commissioned by HSBC and the Personal Finance Education Group. The report found 43 per cent of those children interviewed had heard adults say they cannot buy something because of the recession more than once a [...]
Fleming set to pounce as law firms open up September 15, 2010 FLEMING Family & Partners, the private wealth manager, has joined the growing pool of firms interested in investing into the legal sector once the market opens up next autumn. The family arm, which manages personal wealth for high net-worth families, has recently been in discussion with a number of law firms in the City about [...]
Mid-sized UK firms poised to create profits May 9, 2010 WHO would have thought that the FTSE 250 – often considered a better reflection of the UK economy than the FTSE 100 – would have outperformed the larger index? Even after the swings in the financial markets at the end of last week, the mid-cap 250 index is currently 5 per cent higher than it [...]
Britain is moving back to the old Left September 26, 2010 SLOWLY but surely, Britain’s political landscape and broader culture are reverting to type. Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher’s legacies are being consigned to history. In key respects, Britain is turning back the clock. This is a hugely important development, unique to the UK; no other country appears as eager to re-embrace the nostrums of the [...]
Privacy laws offer City folk protection September 21, 2010 WARREN Buffet once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”. A professional reputation, much like a brand or business reputation, also takes many years to build and demands considerable further investment to nurture and grow. Such a reputation, [...]
Lady liberty has found her sense of humour – PJ O’Rourke checks in November 29, 2010 POLITICIANS,” growls PJ O’Rourke, “don’t understand finance at all – even the last little bit. Yet they’re increasingly in charge of it.” America’s greatest living satirist is back in town and training his anger on the political enterprise. His new book is titled Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages The Bastards. The idea of politicians setting [...]
Lady liberty has found her sense of humour – PJ O’Rourke checks in November 29, 2010 POLITICIANS,” growls PJ O’Rourke, “don’t understand finance at all – even the last little bit. Yet they’re increasingly in charge of it.” America’s greatest living satirist is back in town and training his anger on the political enterprise. His new book is titled Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages The Bastards. The idea of politicians setting [...]
A global approach to managing your wealth August 19, 2010 GOOD wealth management requires a holistic approach to your finances that coordinates everything from private banking to investments and even planning for retirement, ill-health and your children’s education. For expatriates, who may be constantly relocating, this is just as important and can be even more difficult to achieve. You don’t want to end up with [...]
2010’s Christmas book round-up December 1, 2010 BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CRISIS ECONOMICS BY NOURIEL ROUBINI WITH STEPEHN MIHM Pengiuin, £25 More than just another me-too account of the crisis, Nouriel Roubini – often called Dr Doom for his Cassandra-like prophecies – gives a compelling account of the 2008 meltdown. He provides the lay reader with succinct and clearly written explanations of the [...]