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The economist John Kay in his book Obliquity relates the famous essay by Isaiah Berlin about the hedgehog and the fox in the context of financial markets.

The reaction of the major financial markets to the death of Osama Bin Laden shows the disparity between those who look forward and those who look back.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme - often described as the lifeboat of the financial services industry - offers investors a life jacket if their savings and investments have been put at risk, but, following the collapse of Keydata, many product...

The US investment banking firm Jefferies & Co last week initiated its first quarterly publication for its clients, highlighting just how financial markets have changed in a little over two years.

‘Retirement,' has replaced ‘spending more time with the family' as the euphemism for leaving high-profile jobs.

‘To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require stratospheric IQ, unusual business insight, or inside information. What is needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework.'...

It is at times like this, with the Japanese earthquake and the suppression of the Middle Eastern population by some of its rulers, one of the oldest investment mantras seems entirely inappropriate - the best time to invest is when there is blood on the...

As emerging market indices take a pause in their sustained rise, the case for developed market equities is re-emerging.

The expression ‘conflicts of interest' is very much used in financial services and the discussion about what it actually constitutes is gathering momentum.

The recent judgement by the Financial Ombudsman against Meteor may have just looked like yet another ruling against another structured investments provider related to Lehman, but the potential consequences of the ruling could be far wider reaching.