12/30/2011
HSBC’s The Future of Retirement programme is a leading independent study into global retirement trends. It provides authoritative insights into the key issues associated with ageing populations and increasing life expectancy around the world.
12/26/2011
Although there's a perceived high availability of candidates keen to move from management consultancies and strategy houses to in-house teams, attracting and securing top talent with a proven track record of thought leadership is still a challenge.
12/26/2011
International investor Jim Rogers says he is short emerging markets including Singapore, where he now lives.
12/26/2011
International investor Jim Rogers says he is short emerging markets including Singapore, where he now lives.
12/26/2011
Here's a sneak peek inside his bag of goodies, where lumps of coal appear to figure prominently:
12/26/2011
The head of the International Monetary Fund said the world economy was in danger and urged Europeans to speak with one voice on a debt crisis that has rattled the global financial system.
12/20/2011
"2012 will not be 'business as usual'," the bank's chairman Urs Rohner and Chief Executive Brady Dougan said in the memo, which was seen by Reuters.
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.
12/20/2011
In its global outlook for 2012, HSBC Global Asset Management argues that frequent rotations in sentiment in markets reflect the fact that officials have been applying a 'band-aid' approach to addressing fundamental problems
12/20/2011
Gardiner recommends investors take overweight positions in US and Europe ex-UK equities, as he says “the euro is not going to break up” and “the world is probably not going to follow Europe into recession”.
12/20/2011
Barclays Wealth has said it will be entering the new year with an overweight position to Europe ex-UK.
12/05/2011
Gold’s failure to make new highs despite the intensifying euro crisis has fuelled some doubts about its effectiveness as a hedge.
11/30/2011
If the global financial crisis has taught the world anything, it’s that there is massive weakness running through western banking systems.
11/30/2011
Testosterone, rather than neurons, may push male egos into ever-more-complex speculative bets, a gambling binge made possible by advanced technology, mathematical techniques, and globalization.
09/29/2011
Why Warren Buffett's View on Taxes Is Irrelevant
09/19/2011
By my calculations, the next one will be due in 2014 – indeed, you are strongly advised to set your Swiss watch by it.
09/16/2011
There are tales of desperate Italian and Spanish bankers offering stakes in their banks to possible buyers from the mainland as they plead for cash infusions.
09/16/2011
HSBC lifted its 2012 gold price forecast to $2,025 an ounce from $1,625 previously, while GFMS said it could “easily” see gold spiking through $2,000 an ounce by the end of this year.
09/05/2011
World Bank's Zoellick: "World Economy Is Entering A New Danger Zone"
09/01/2011
The author of Extreme Money, Satyajit Das, says that governments are fixated on economic growth strategies to get out of the sovereign debt mess they are in. But he says they don't appear to have considered what will happen if growth does not recover