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The Red Baroness
EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton, who has never had any elected office, is a typical ambitious left-wing apparatchik. The foreign…
ByFT: Darling to tax bonuses?
Alistair Darling, chancellor, is preparing a crackdown on “extraordinarily high” bankers’ bonuses when he makes his pre-Budget report on Wednesday,…
ByReuters: UBS advisers now allowed to go abroad
ZURICH, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Switzerland’s UBS(UBS.N: 行情)(UBSN.VX: 行情) has lifted a ban on Swiss-based client advisors travelling abroad, provided…
ByFT: Osborne says banks should not offset losses against tax
Mr Osborne has called for banks to be prevented from offsetting past losses against tax on distributed profits. “When the…
ByAll the Fun of the Fayre
Entertainers extraordinaire Victoria Cator and Lucinda Bruce reveal that Christmas can actually be stress-free as long as you plan carefully…
ByPoll Position
Good polls are the ones you can control. Bad polls are the ones that involve money and phoning 1378 men…
ByBlack & Blue Friday
You’d think I’d know better at my age, but apparently hope does indeed spring eternal. You’d think I’d know better…
ByTimes: Deripaska races to refinance
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, is in a race against time to complete the $7.4 billion (£4.5 billion) refinancing of…
ByAFP: Swiss tell 500 UBS clients of data transfer
BERN Swiss authorities said Tuesday they had informed more than 500 UBS clients suspected of having evaded taxes in the…
ByLula and Ahmadinejad
What’s Lula up to by hosting and defending such a global enfant terrible? Same as always, in a word: power.…
ByA Ruination of Macroeconomists
At the most recent Adam Smith Lunch at Boodle’s, in the presence of senior business figures and economists, Dr Peter…
ByHer Imperial Command
Some traits are clearly genetically inherited: dark eyes and male pattern baldness instantly come to mind. But entrepreneurialism? Is there…
ByCity AM: Spencer-Churchill Miller to target MFOs
WEALTH management firm Spencer-Churchill Miller Private (SCM Private), run by star fund manager Alan Miller, plans to target family offices,…
BySTel: City workers flock to Swiss relocation seminar
With rooms at up to £8,000 a night, which includes the use of a private butler, the Lanesborough hotel in…
BySnow Time Like the Present
His Excellency confirmed that the Cresta Club was very worried about the effects of global warming on the run. In…
ByWSJ: Moody’s downgrades UBS across the board
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded various ratings on Swiss bank UBS AG, citing challenges in its investment-banking and wealth-management businesses. Moody’s…
ByWBrief: Coutts to treble Private Office team
Coutts & Co, the private banking arm of Royal Bank of Scotland, aims to treble the size of its Private…
ByBack to a Bonus Bonanza
It’s no wonder that the American people are furious, says Rob Cox: bonuses are back and bigger than ever DUDE,…
ByThe Minsky Moment
The fight to stop Great Depression 2 is far from over. In 2008, we saw the Keynesian Stimulus Cure and…
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