Anthony Hilton

09.02.10

City Comment: When governments are short of money they cut capital spending. But however much needs to be saved, it can't come out of infrastructure...
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08.02.10

City Comment: With dividends dropping from UK PLC it really should come as no surprise that our pension funds, heavily invested in UK equities, are in...
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05.02.10

It was possible in the 1970s to correlate Britain's economic decline with the growth in numbers and power of accountants and the influence their...
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04.02.10

Though Tory leader David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne seem increasingly confused about what to do when in power to tackle the public...
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03.02.10

City Comment: There was a time not long ago when most of the best-known life assurance companies were mutuals — but the sector struggles against...
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02.02.10

City Comment: During the Depression the Macmillan Committee put together ways for banks to support small businesses, but things have changed - it's...
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01.02.10

City Comment: Published today is this year’s “Banking banana skins” — an annual survey of things likely to trip up unwary bankers. Inevitably...
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29.01.10

City Comment: It's inexplicable: although banking claims to employ the cleverest people in the world and pays them accordingly, at no point have its...
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28.01.10

City Comment: The financial crisis was a meteorite and private equity was the Earth; when it hit all the dinosaurs on planet private equity became...
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27.01.10

City Comment: At first sight, there is no obvious connection between HSBC chief executive Mike Geoghegan landing in Hong Kong and sterling going on...
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26.01.10

City Comment: When Mervyn King, appeared before the Lords in November, he focused his remarks on what he said were the two biggest issues of the...
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25.01.10

City Comment: The City of London has prospered considerably down the years from its willingness to allow what is illegal elsewhere, and in particular...
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22.01.10

City comment: As it looks like Cadbury will pass into the hands of a most unsuitable American owner, the least we can do is ask whether we have made...
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21.01.10

City comment: Bankers still don’t get it, but FTSE 100 chief executives seem to. While the top slice of the financial sector enrages with its feasting...
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21.01.10

Comment: Bankers' manufactured talent can't be compared to Roger Federer's - so why pay so much for it?

20.01.10

City comment: When asked what makes them most nervous about the next 12 months, most fund managers and businessmen come up with the same answer - the...
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19.01.10

City Comment: Attempts to predict the day-to-day financial issues of 20 years into the future can't help but come straight from the lobbyists'...
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18.01.10

City Comment: It is an odd world where the possible loss of a few hedge funds and its impact on business tax arouses more concern than the loss of...
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18.12.09

You never know how much you will miss something until it is not there

17.12.09

The rise in house prices in the past nine months may have come as a relief to home owners worried about negative equity, but it has been a source of...
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