28 Feb 2008

Kerviel Case: Where has all the money gone?

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In all the excitement about the huge losses made by Soc Gen's Monsieur Kerviel and the bank's management one thing never gets menti...
18 Feb 2008

Northern Rock - two key questions that need to be answered

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The first question - and it has hardly been receiving attention in all the discussions of the Northern Rock saga that we are aware of - is t...
4 Feb 2008

Non-Dom Taxes - Nail in the Coffin for London's City?

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Ill-conceived taxes were instrumental in the development of the Eurocurrency and bond markets during the late 1960s and early 1970s. First t...
10 Nov 2007

Exit 'Fred the Shred'- Character traits in Chief Executives

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We have never personally met Fred Goodwin but reading an article about him we were reminded that many corporate disasters happened under th...
25 Oct 2007

To Quant or not to Quant?

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Yesterday's Financial Times carried a polemical piece by Nassim Taleb. In it he derided the use of mathematical models and called the so...
4 Oct 2007

Bonus Fears: Not as bad as the headlines make believe

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Some newspaper headlines predict massive job losses and a substantial drop in bonuses for financial market professionals this year. Apart fr...
3 Apr 2007

Lessons from a Boat Race - Or how to make teams work better together

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Can business leaders really learn from a study in which the Cambridge University boat club has been observed at work during seven-months per...
10 Feb 2007

Professionals should do well again in 2007

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The larger firms have built their staff levels from a standing start (Goldman had 56 employees in 1978 in London, Morgan Stanley had not eve...
31 Jan 2007

London vs. New York - A Tale of two Cities

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We do not think that the ascendancy of London as a financial centre to rival - and even overtake - New York should surprise anyone. The issu...
15 Jan 2007

Arbitrary bonus allocation creates legal minefield

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The Financial Services Industry is in the middle of the annual round of deciding the size of the bonus pool for its employees as well as the...