The Leveson enquiry, the rise of the super-injunction and the proliferation of social media and internet gossip sites all draw attention to both the need for protecting our reputations and just how difficult it is.
Recent global surveys reveal the ultra high net worth individual (‘UHNWI’) population in the emerging markets is growing at a quicker rate than in the rest of the world and that Latin America in particular has the highest percentage of UHNWIs relative to the global average.
The past two years have been a rocky road of recovery. So what does 2012 hold for the global recovery and the various markets and asset classes?
Managers and economists at Fidelity, Standard Life Investments (SLI), Schroders, Threadneedle, JP Morgan, DWS and Morgan Stanley, give their take on
what to expect in the year ahead.
As a small boy growing up in the North of England, the thing to have was an electric train set. It was the early 1960s and the steam train, the most usual form of long distance travel in the previous decade, was already a fading but nostalgic memory.
Is the answer to the world’s economic woes to give money away to organisations that support worthy causes, or does it contribute more to the social and economic development of the economy to retain the resources in businesses to invest in their on-going growth?
In the early part of the last century Africa was a staple part of British and European portfolios. With the rise of the BRIC economies and the emerging markets of the Far east, africa has been ignored and forgotten.
