Delays in Eurozone keep markets flat February 8, 2012 US stocks closed flat in another thinly traded session yesterday as Greece remained in a standstill over accepting tough reforms in exchange for a bailout critical to avoiding a chaotic default. Underlying confidence kept the Dow near an almost four-year high notched on Tuesday, though trading has been quiet since last week’s stellar employment report. [...]
Ever-increasing regulation is boosting compliance careers February 8, 2012 ADL PARTNERS FIVE years ago I was working on a compliance mandate for an investment bank. As well as compliance professionals, the client was open to seeing individuals from other professions, in this case legal. Yet to retain the interest of lawyers and stop them from terminating the conversation it was imperative not to mention [...]
JOBS of the WEEK February 8, 2012 Investment Analyst UK Private Equity Fund £55,000-£85,000 This is an opportunity to join an established UK mid-market private equity fund as an analyst within its investment team. The successful candidate will be involved in every aspect of new investments, including deal screening, financial modelling, and deal execution. The fund plays an active role in the [...]
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya… Is it time to intervene in Syria? February 8, 2012 YES MICHAEL WEISS THE question is not whether or not the West ought to intervene in Syria but when it will. For 11 months, President Assad’s regime has rejected all offers for substantive reform, while massacring upwards of 7,000 civilians, displacing tens of thousands more and running a network of arbitrary detention facilities rivalling Saddamist [...]
Bank accounts should become a rite of passage February 8, 2012 FINANCIAL education should be made a compulsory part of every school’s curriculum – that was the motion Justin Tomlinson MP put forward in Parliament just before Christmas. Tomlinson pointed out that debit card usage now exceeds cash usage. Yet about 19 per cent of parents have never discussed how to spend money with their teenagers [...]
Both sides do battle in war for independents February 8, 2012 THE president of the United States, according to the late Clinton Rossiter, is America’s “Manager of Prosperity”. Presidents sink or swim on their economic records. When the economy booms, $15 trillion in activity can – no matter how absurd – be attributed to the astute management of one man. The same is obviously true in [...]
RAPID RESPONSES February 8, 2012 A British disease Simon Denham is right in many of his observations [Politicians are slaughtering UK finance – the goose that is still laying the golden egg, Monday], particularly the way politicians are keen to jump on any current popular issue, banker-bashing at present, and will happily destroy the income that is feeding them in [...]
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Sending armed cops to arrest a hacker is like shooting gnats with a bazooka February 8, 2012 When police in New Zealand arrested suspected online pirate Kim Dotcom, they were accompanied by a dog unit and a SWAT team armed with automatic weapons. Could there be a better visual representation of the gulf between the people attempting to police the internet and those suspected of corrupting it? The man is even named [...]
TECH TALK February 8, 2012 APPLE ITV PRICE AND SPECS LEAKED Apple hasn’t even come close to confirming there will be an Apple TV – dubbed iTV in the US – but that hasn’t stopped its specs and price being leaked. Retailer Best Buy carried out a survey asking its customers if they would be interested in a 42-inch, 1080p [...]
