Goldman Sachs

The major UK banks are falling as the market absorbs the wider implications of Barack Obama's plans to keep US banks on a tighter leash.

Fund managers believe Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland are the UK banks most likely to suffer if the latest US plans to curb risk taking in the sector are effected.

Gold is entering a new era. In the past gold has been thought of primarily as a safe haven, but now it is recognised as a preserver of wealth by both institutional and private investors, relevant whatever the economic weather.

HSBC Private Bank has appointed Willem Sels as head of its fixed income strategy for its UK Private Bank.

Axa Investment Managers has recruited Mark Beveridge as global head of the Axa Framlington business.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment conglomerate has admitted it may have miscalculated the downside risks to the fall of the global markets last year, writes The Telegraph.

The rally in the UK equity market since the low point reached on 3 March has surprised even some of the most hardened optimists.

Seismic changes in the way the US tax authorities intend to tax the returns on American senior-citizen-based life settlement funds have caught many fund managers on the hop

A move to riskier stocks earlier in the year has paid off for Threadneedle's Weldon

A wave of bullishness has swept the oil sector after analysts predicted oil prices will continue to g...