Investors have long been urged to spread their ... This quasi-hedging strategy is fine in theory, but ... US investors who have tried to diversify abroad ... Over the 12 months to the end of ... Fortunes for UK investors, however, are in marked ... The overall data, however, masks a sharp difference...
The financial crisis has led people with 'defined-contribution' ... In the US, where the value of ... Similarly, in Australia, which along with the US ... According to Mercer, this is not just a ... Craig Burnett, European head of the defined-contribution consulting ... "But if people are delaying retirement, and age...
Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the UK committee ... Leigh said: “It is ridiculous that the chief ... “Despite the fact that CDC is government-owned, its ... A CDC spokesman responded: "The chief executive’s pay ... “CDC’s pay arrangements are deliberately designed to attract...
Nasdaq OMX, the transatlantic exchange group, has lost ... Oslo Børs said it will switch from its ... Nasdaq bought 10% of Oslo Børs in October ... However, the London and Oslo bourses today agreed ... “London is the financial centre of Europe," said ... The "new competitive situation" refers to the advent...
HSBC has launched a service that allows its ... HSBC said it started offering direct market access ... Kevin Bourne, HSBC's global head of e-equities, said ... He said: "Direct market access increases operational efficiency ... HSBC plans to extend DMA to other emerging...
Merger negotiations between UK airline British Airways and ... The companies confirmed merger talks yesterday, but declined ... The combined value of the airlines' pension liabilities ... The companies' combined market capitalisation was £3.7bn, at ... Both schemes are in deficit, according their most...
Low-risk funds that are sold only to institutional ... German and Luxembourg-domiciled special institutional funds – known ... That is in marked contrast to most of ... A spokesman for the German fund management association, ... However, he pointed out that even the spezialfonds...
Profits at Markit, the budding data giant, rose ... London-based Markit said earnings before interest, tax, depreciation ... The rise came despite post-tax profits at Markit ... Markit launched just seven years ago as a ... In recent months, the company has sought to ... In July, Markit announced a joint venture with...
Merger negotiations between UK airline British Airways and ... The companies confirmed merger talks yesterday, but declined ... The combined value of the airlines' pension liabilities ... The companies' combined market capitalization was £3.7bn, at ... Both schemes are in deficit, according their most...
Profits at Markit, the budding data giant, rose ... London-based Markit said earnings before interest, tax, depreciation ... The rise came despite post-tax profits at Markit ... Markit launched just seven years ago as a ... In recent months, the company has sought to ... In July, Markit announced a joint venture with...
The Office of Fair Trading, the UK competition ... The decision is a coup for UK-based exchanges ... However it will come as a blow to ... The OFT’s ruling comes after the watchdog invited ... In May the OFT called for submissions on ... In reaching its latest decision, the OFT said...
Sodexo, a French services group that came under ... The four buffer funds, AP1 through AP4, welcomed ... Nadine Viel Lamare, corporate governance chief at AP1, ... Carl Rosén, chairman of the four Swedish funds' ... "In a short span of time, the company ... Following inmate disturbances and an apparent suicide at...
Asset manager TriAlpha Investment Advisors is in the ... TriAlpha, which was founded in South Africa, was ... Legal representatives for the firms were understood to ... The TriAlpha group is a subsidiary of wealth ... The merger between the two companies is one ... Graham Phillips, a partner at accountancy firm PwC,...
Credit Suisse is cutting 10% of its London-based ... Consultations began today with UK staff on 650 ... The latest round of cuts will take the ... Credit Suisse issued a statement blaming the latest ... It wrote: “Due to market conditions and projected ... Staff working in Credit Suisse’s proprietary trading business...
Last week’s pre-Budget report produced outrage, scepticism and ... While virtually everyone will be marginally better off ... There will also be increases in national insurance ... As is traditional in the days following a ... However, the impact of the changes on higher-paid...
Investors have long been urged to spread their ... This quasi-hedging strategy is fine in theory, but ... US investors who have tried to diversify abroad ... Fortunes for UK investors, however, are in marked ... The overall data, however, masks a sharp difference ... The Camradata rankings show even the top performing...
Aberdeen Asset Management suffered a more than 9% ... In the company's full-year results, the directors of ... But asset managers have been under pressure generally, ... The company also announced a further £20m of ... Equity analysts at Numis said: "This is a ... Assets under management stood at £111bn at the...
Shares in UK furniture chain Land of Leather ... Turnround specialists Sun Capital Partners and Hilco, which ... In a statement the company said it had ... At 09:50 GMT today Land of Leather shares ... Louise Richardson, an analyst at UK stockbroker Arden ... Another analyst said it is hard to gauge...
The Financial Services Authority has proposed the creation ... Under the proposals, UK listings would be clearly ... There were concerns that secondary or global depositary ... Sally Dewar, FSA managing director of wholesale and ... Premium listings will have to meet the UK’s...