29 May 2016

End of Hedge Funds?

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Gloom and Doom may work for Marc Faber but it should not overshadow rational analysis of the Hedge Fund Industry.
26 May 2016

Employee Evaluation - when Common Sense and Human Touch go AWOL

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Numerical rankings were already an idea from hell. Trying to achieve precision - am I number 6 or number 7 on the Goldman Sachs list? - is i...
25 May 2016

BHS Pension Fund Debacle

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Yesterday's headline read Green 'missed five chances to save BHS pension fund.' But the article missed the possibility that Phi...
24 May 2016

DIY Pensions -like DIY Brain Surgery

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The idea that the average person should be wholly/predominately responsible to save for his/her retirement is laughable. It may appeal to do...
20 May 2016

Deutsche Bank - enough own goals to win any competition

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It will be interesting to see how much longer the chairman of Deutsche Bank's Supervisory Board will be able to cling to his seat. The ...
13 May 2016

Commodity Trading - A Mystery

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While this news item illustrates the extraordinary influence the - mostly Switzerland-based - Commodity Trading firms have in the markets t...
1 May 2016

Credit Suisse CEO without Banking Experience

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Can it make any sense to appoint someone to lead a bank when the person has no specific experience in the industry? Recent moves by regulato...
18 Apr 2016

Europe is over-banked says UBS Chairman Weber

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I could not agree more. With the arrival of Peer-to-Peer Lending, Robo-Advisers, Internet Banking and more stringent (suffocating?) Regulati...
11 Apr 2016

Why Europe's Banks don't have enough Capital

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Interesting contribution from the Head of Research at BIS. But when the incompetents in Politics and Regulation have the UK banks pay £45 ...
14 Jan 2016

Another painful lesson from a disastrous Acquisition

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News that Unicredit finally has extricated itself from its exposure in the Ukraine serves as a reminder that 'Strategic Transactions...