27 Sept 2017

Invesco may acquire Guggenheim ETF Biz

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All very well, consolidation, getting critical mass etc - but is 3% of AuM not a bit rich for a business with wafer-thin (and still trending...
20 Sept 2017

McKinsey's Spur der Verwüstung - Inside Paradeplatz

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Maybe a bit exaggerated, but there is an element of truth in it. The fees charged by Management Consultants - esp. the largest ones - are ou...
13 Sept 2017

MUFG said to pick Amsterdam for Securities Base after Brexit

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The Securities Diaspora gathers pace. There is only the little problem of human 'resources' to consider. While Japanese and Expats f...

30% of Bank Jobs May Disappear in Next Five Years - Former Citi CEO

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Vikram Pandit, who ran Citigroup Inc. during the financial crisis, said developments in technology could see some 30 percent of banking jobs...
8 Sept 2017

Investment Management: No limits to Size?

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Talk of (inevitable?) concentration in the Investment Management universe must lead to the obvious question: is it really inevitable as many...

Top Execs sell stock before bad company news breaks

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When well-paid (overpaid?) top executives behave like this one should not wonder that Capitalism and the Market System increasingly lose pub...
7 Sept 2017

Diamonds are Forever?

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Lending ONE BILLION against some baubles supposed to be in envelopes or safes? NUTS! Did they never hear about the Great Salad Oil Swindle i...
30 Aug 2017

London Job Losses: Trickle rather than Bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...

Russia To Ban Cryptocurrency Sales To "Ordinary People"

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Rightly so, time our often over-reaching regulators wake up to this charade, and please don't call these 'Coins' a 'Currency...
29 Aug 2017

London Job Losses - trickling rather than bleeding

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One always had to wonder why Deutsche Bank needs 9000 people in London, or HSBC needs 43000 in the UK. Was that not always padded by quite a...