Mortgage brokers believe ongoing and future consumer demand for their services will prevent the big banks from having their way in driving them out of the market.
New research reveals two thirds of brokers (66.4%) believe banks are trying to squeeze them out of the industry, yet a …
The late Milton Friedman must be turning in his grave as he watches Governments around the world wantonly pumping money into their respective economies and, in some cases, rewarding poor management.
The US Federal Reserve has ceased counting M3 (the total money supply in the economy), the Australian …
Finance and regulation go hand in hand like Fish and Chips.
Unfortunately, the financial services industry is setting itself up for a greater portion of chips on its plate as signs indicate institutional behaviour is unlikely, and possibly never will be, self-modifying enough to curb regulator meddling.
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British investors are showing immediate signs of behaviour modification with two thirds reducing their consumption levels in light of the London FTSE retreating back to its 2003 levels.
Investors in the UK are not expecting the current situation to reverse itself any time soon either, with their projections …
For independent financial advisers (IFAs) in the UK, the credit crunch, or the global financial crisis as we must now call it, is not the greatest challenge facing their businesses.
According to research carried out by CoreData Research UK in September, more IFAs see regulatory reforms endangering the …
It will take time to judge the effects of the recent global financial turmoil on the psyche of the average retail investor, but it would not be surprising if many investors are not reappraising their view of various asset classes.
Equities, for example, are usually seen as the best asset …
