Sage of Wall Street gets it wrong… again
Alan Greenspan, a man described as a “bigger threat to the US economy than Osama bin Laden”* in his latter years […]
Edinburgh fund sues Ericsson
The City of Edinburgh council’s pension fund has committed itself to an aggressive pursuit of Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson in
Absolutely not a dedicated follower of fashion
Standard Life Investments chief executive Keith Skeoch looks back at the eventful decade since the company was spun out of
Pension funds warned over faith in bonds
THE TRUSTEES of UK pension funds, who oversee the investment of some £900 billion of assets, have been chastised for
Carlyle enters self-destructive phase
Having a panoply of former politicians — including the former British prime John Major and former US president George H W Bush
Buzzing into the UK’s institutional honey pot
IT is ten years since Roger Urwin, global head of the investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, galvanised UK pension funds
Infrastructure investing: we’ve only just begun
Institutional investors are waking up to the merits of infrastructure investing and an increasing number of funds dedicated to the
Fidelity’s Bolton expects markets to turn before the year is out
What does it take to outperform in today’s volatile market? Ian Fraser asked leading fund managers how they have altered
Patience is a virtue
In Central and Eastern Europe, private equity has been welcomed and the opportunities are plentiful — if you know the
Penniless walker sets off
YOU’VE got to hand it to Mark Boyle, a former dotcom entrepreneur turned “community pilgrim” from Bristol, who is trying
Matthews’ exit reflects badly on Standard Life
Standard Life has not covered itself in glory by losing the services of Trevor Matthews, who last night announced he
Locke’s £120 million stock … and lots of barrels
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that the credit crunch has made big private-equity buyouts a thing of the past. However, Alasdair
Labour ruining Tory legacy, says Locke
ONE OF Scotland’s leading oil magnates has launched a stinging attack on the Labour government, accusing it of destroying the
Resource nationalism
Oil is obviously a finite resource. However, contrary to what you hear from subscribers to the ‘Peak Oil’ theory, this
Scottish Agenda: Why Scottish Water needs a fresh treatment
Calls for Scottish Water to be taken out of state ownership and turned into a mutual like Wales’s Glas Cymru
Few tears as British Linen shuts Scots office
A CORPORATE finance practice that was launched with some fanfare and whose backers included some of Scotland’s most high-profile businesspeople,
Ossian dumps three buyout executives as profits slide
ONE of Scotland’s leading retail companies has ousted three of the four-strong management team that led a private equity-backed buyout
Provident to stay Scottish
ROYAL LONDON, the parent company of Edinburgh-based insurers Scottish Life and Bright Grey, has said there will be no significant
There’s a crisis in audit and it needs proper investigation
Why do auditors and regulators continue to turn a blind eye to the dodgy accounting practices widely used by Britain’s
Accountants face up to the moral maze
David Molyneaux was leading an ethics course for senior Vietnamese accountants and regulators in Hanoi in August when one participant
Scottish Agenda: Quiet achiever has grown quicker than Kwik
WHEN Sir Tom Farmer sold Kwik-Fit for £1 billion in 1999, the deal received wall-to-wall coverage in the Scottish press.