Temple Associates

Recently 500 (in words: five hundred!!) policemen were delegated to conduct a search at Deutsche Bank's headquarters. Anyone with half ...

Now it is Legg Mason's turn to eat humble pie and write off a major junk of its investment in Permal , the hedge fund group. No blame s...

It was clear to me from the outset that the decision by Man Group to acquire the hedge fund GLG was more out of desperation (to diversity, ...

When I originally commented on the Libor 'Scandal' I got a surprisingly strong reaction from readers - even those that normally ar...

Rumors have it that Bank Austria may lose nearly 80 pct of the more than $US 2.2 billion that it paid for Kazakhstan's ATF bank in 2007...

Anyone who thinks that I take too negative a view of the 'efforts' of the regulators should have a look at this article. ( Mises I...

Jobsworth: "a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obst...

Reads a headline in today's Financial Times. This is a n other brilliant idea to weaken the position of the City of London as a financi...

Talk, talk, talk - that is all the regulators and their political puppet masters seem to provide with respect to the derivatives market. Cou...

While there are other reasons that 'banks do not want to lend' (such as lack of suitable borrowers) the nitpicking and intrusive reg...