It may be one of the best explanations yet for why the global financial crisis occurred: genuine relationships got processed away in what became an industrialisation of the investment business, says Elizabeth Corley, Europe CEO of Allianz Global Investors...

For many across the world, it was probably the Beijing Olympics when it dawned where future global economic and political power really lay.

The currency of a country is the equivalent of its share price, the perceived value of its overall tangible and intangible assets, and while the share prices of the highly indebted developed markets are faltering, those of emerging markets are rising....

Veritas co-founder and CEO Charles Richardson talks to Caroline Allen about how smaller, tightly-run companies provide better opportunities in testing market conditions

Financial advisers used to recommending funds and products from the same old set of "usual suspects" in the industry can expect a new class of challengers to emerge in coming months.

Natixis' chief executive says $728bn group is aiming to develop trusted adviser status

Optimism is returning to global economy say managers

The standoff between Greece and the EU refuses to lie down, however it was Incisive Media's Risk magazine which skilfully pinned down the exact numbers in an article published in 2003.

Critics of this Government deride it for weakness and indecision. But in what must now be the run-up to a general election, it is demonstrating astonishing mettle by introducing and proposing one new tax measure after another.

Emerging markets are making up shortfalls that have resulted from a fall in investment from developed countries