Temple Associates
Advice for Fund Managers, Securities and Banking Firms
30 May 2014
US blackmails banks - EU useless
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The US 'authorities' (if you can name them as such as the country becomes more and more ruled by out-of-control lobbies and zealots)...
22 May 2014
QE ineffectual and criminal
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9 May 2014
Barclays: how not to manage a business
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Announcing that the number of jobs in the investment banking unit will be cut by 25 per cent over the next three years is as bad a decision ...
29 Apr 2014
London - what would be effect of 'Brexit'?
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When senior banking figures warn that London's position as preeminent financial centre would be at risk from any British exit from the...
4 Apr 2014
Absurd Asset Quality Review
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Every bank is bust if all depositors want their money back at the same time - unless a thorough reform (which we support) has mandated a str...
21 Mar 2014
Celebrity Fund Managers can be an Achilles Heel
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Relying on Celebrity Fund Managers can be risky even for the most prominent Fund Management House. Recent changes at Pimco are just the lat...
Banking Stress Tests of limited value
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Every bank can be shown to fail under certain assumptions. For example a 50 percent drop in property and/or share prices, a steep increase i...
11 Mar 2014
Succession Planning often neglected
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A new study released by Stanford Business School highlights the cavalier attitude that many organisations take when planning for the eve...
6 Mar 2014
Monitoring Employee behaviour - a tricky problem
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Despite the rapidly rising number of compliance officers and the tide of regulatory legislation the age-old problem of supervising employee ...
5 Mar 2014
Superbanks - too large to fail, and too large to manage?
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Bank managements often argue that losses in far-away subsidiaries could not easily have been foreseen by top management. Such may be the cas...
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