Opinion

There were two major themes in global equity markets at the end of last year. First, the global equi...

Japan's long-term prospects remain good, based upon the sustained improvement in corporate profitabi...

The outlook for the US equity market is quite favourable. The cornerstones of our bullish view on eq...

While not wishing to dwell too much on the past, it is worth noting that in 2006 the FTSE 250 rose b...

Advisers are likely to have received guidance from life companies recently, advising them against se...

The pension term assurance debacle rattled the industry at the end of last year. But just how badly has it damaged the reputation of the industry and how long will it take to be rectified? Has it caused irreparable damage?

Last October Callum McCarthy started a speech he delivered at Gleneagles by saying that in the 18th Century we exported our convicts to Australia. It appears that at the start of the 21st Century some (Australians, not convicts!) have made the return...

I had to listen to the figure again, again and again. I had to read the numbers again, again and again. It couldn't really be true could it - city bonuses hitting £19bn with some young whizz kid traders netting millions in bonuses? But, yes, it appears...

As we near the end of January, I have been wondering how many people can possibly have kept up their new year's resolutions. The trouble is that in a fleeting moment of angelic ambition, it's rather too easy to over-stretch oneself.

The light dusting of precipitation otherwise known as snow did its usual trick of making the UK underperform for a day or two this week.