Caroline Allen
18 February 2011
French asset management firm Carmignac Gestion has announced its intention to expand into the UK market this year.
18 February 2011
Outsize TV screens were showing graphic live footage of the clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, but watching the soaring musical fountains at the foot of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, one banker confidently dismissed doom and bust scenarios.
28 January 2011
When you hear the words “French asset manager”, what springs to mind? There is at least one very good such manager, and before long, financial advisers in the UK will get a chance to meet it.
14 January 2011
It may be nothing more than over-running festive indigestion, but there is an uncomfortable feeling in many markets of residual uncertainty, of just holding on, rather than robust appetite for new opportunities. Something is not quite right.
06 January 2011
As goes the first week of January, so goes the year, according to the analysts who try to predict which assets will deliver best returns over the following 12 months.
16 December 2010
Data showing UK inflation has exceeded its required range for 40 of the last 49 months might suggest our home market is perking up.
10 December 2010
Was it Rhett Butler who told Scarlett O’Hara in the most torrid moments of Gone with the Wind that there is as much money to be made in the downfall of a nation, as in its ascendance?
06 December 2010
Remember when all investors had to worry about was the possibility of a double-dip recession next year? Those times seem like the simple, innocent days of spring compared with the icy scenarios now evolving.
22 November 2010
It seems lost in the mists of market meltdown now, but hedge funds were widely blamed at the start of the financial crisis for practices that triggered the collapse.
12 November 2010
Uncertainty, volatility and risk aversion continue to dominate investor sentiment in most markets.
29 October 2010
After a disastrous result, everyone pitches in with their opinion on how each player could have done better, the shortcomings of the bunged-up selectors and, of course, the total incompetence of the referee. And so it is with the investment management industry.
25 October 2010
Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, Bonfire of the Vanities, Barbarians at the Gate. Excuse me, but did the Nineties and Noughties never happen?
15 October 2010
Crispin Odey, in his headline-grabbing way, has announced a foray into the world of wealth management, declaring in an excited press release the current crop of wealth managers is “bloated”.
11 October 2010
Since when does a feature “investigation” of asset management fees make the Nine O’Clock News? It is enough to make you choke on your evening glass of St Emilion.
30 September 2010
The theme at the Luxembourg fund conference was hardly contentious: countries of the European Union are starting to feel the demographic pressures on their economies, and while the global financial recovery is not yet secure, they are being pushed to come up with new pension funding and savings solutions.
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