More than two fifths (43.1%) of Australian financial planners anticipated the recent share market falls, while one in five planners (21.5%) didn’t see the end of the bull-run approaching according to clients surveyed by CoreData.
Research of 1,050 investors, of which 22.7% pointed to having a financial planner, …
The French crisis-hit bank, Société Générale is displaying signs of desperation as it pulls out all stops to deter the circling takeover wolves from attacking.
In a strange move on Friday the bank ran full page ads in major international newspapers, including The Financial Times and The South …
The UK government’s nationalisation of Northern Rock has brought forth a predictable ‘back to the seventies’ chorus of disapproval from opposition politicians and the press.
In British political debate, the 1970s has been demonised as an economic dark age; a time of power cuts, striking unions toppling the …
The European Union is scheduled to request increasingly maligned sovereign wealth funds to accept a voluntary code of conduct in Brussels tomorrow (Wednesday).
SWFs look set to replace private equity groups in 2008 as the global financial system’s bogey man as Governments grow increasingly wary of these state-backed …
There may be some life yet in the few staunch communist idealists around the world.
This week has proved to be an eye opener perhaps for those who thought the West won out back in 1989 and have been too caught up in the globalisation-facilitated spend-a-thon of the …
For the superstitious among us, it may be more than coincidence the value shed by global equity markets in January – US$5.2 trillion – is the same amount of money held in domestic savings accounts in China.
Chinese banks are better placed than most to thrive in a …
