These are my links for March 25th:
Brown’s £20bn business boost plan flawed says NAO - Accountancy Age - That’s because admin is not causing the burden that it’s blamed for by those who can’t make money
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According to Wealth Briefing:
A shortage of top-class client relationship managers in the world’s wealth management industry threatens to undermine its efforts to keep up with demand, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the accountants and consultants.
No wonder Gordon Brown wants to teach entrepreneurship in the UK’s primary schools.
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The Christian Science Monitor is not my usual read, but I am also well aware that it is noted for good quality reporting. That’s the case in a report published today on the widening probe into tax haven abuse in Europe, which I would recommend to anyone looking for a good summary of the situation.
What [...]
I noted this advert in the Christian Science Monitor today, aimed at the UK market:
I’ve long hated all Provident Financial stands for in terms of exploitation of the poorest in our community. And here they are, continuing to do so, profiting from the credit squeeze and abusing those must vulnerable to its impact.
It’s a sickening [...]
These are my links for March 24th:
FT.com / World - UK colleges snub short business degrees - Quite right too. These aren’t degrees. This is not the purpose of an education.
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A partner with Baker & McKenzie Switzerland, who are, I believe, the biggest firm of lawyers in the world has sought to attack Germany’s attempt to break banking secrecy, according to Dow Jones online financial news who say:
Philip Marcovici, a partner in the Zurich office of law firm Baker & McKenzie, said: “This is not [...]
A reminder, for those who want to learn more about tax havens, of the following:
6th OffshoreAlertFinancial Due Diligence Conference‘The Unexpurgated Offshore’Sunday - Tuesday, April 13 - 15, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
I’ll be there but from a look at the speaker list am expecting to be a little outnumbered by those with whom I share [...]
The FT has noted that:
Carrington Capital Management, a $1bn hedge fund specialising in mortgages, is trying to persuade its investors to lend it up to $200m to replace bank loans, in the latest sign of concern about banks pulling credit lines to hedge funds.
Carrington, part-owned by New Century, the failed US subprime lender, has offered [...]
The FT has reported that:
Commodities prices have been falling across the board as hedge funds cut their exposure to one of the most popular asset classes so far this year, suggesting that recent record prices have been buoyed by speculative flows.
Yet more evidence that the real world, real trade and real people are harmed by [...]
These are my links for March 23rd:
Fall in tax payments sends warning to Darling - Times Online - In a downside the governmemt has to break the rules - so let’s stop pretending things are as they were in 2005
Leader: Timid Brown must catch up with reality | Comment is free | The Observer [...]
