Anthony Hilton

20.11.09

It remains the automatic assumption of most savers in this country that they will ultimately get a better return from equities than from bonds, if...
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19.11.09

On one level, Icap's figures this week demonstrated its resilience in the face of the global financial storm but on a deeper and more interesting...
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18.11.09

When commercial property prices crashed in the mid-1970s, in circumstances that were very similar to today, it took them years to recovery.

17.11.09

Shareholders lost a lot of money as a result of the banking crisis, partly because none carried much clout in the boardrooms so they were easy to...
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16.11.09

Barclays chairman John Varley was given a page in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph to plead the case for being allowed to keep his investment bank,...
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13.11.09

We all have our opinions about the value of opinion polls, but I was nevertheless struck by one this week that showed the Conservatives in line for a...
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12.11.09

Global shipping is a complete disaster. World trade has fallen more than anyone would have thought possible a year ago, and there are simply not...
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11.11.09

The popular perception of regulators is that they rarely put themselves out of a job. Callum McCarthy certainly went in that direction when he became...
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10.11.09

Perhaps the most intriguing observation to emerge from the acres of coverage marking yesterday's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was...
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09.11.09

If the Government gets its way, every working person in the country will be in a pension scheme in a little more than five years. As we speak, the...
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06.11.09

Back in March, Cable & Wireless had a pension deficit in its main UK scheme of £32 million but in the half-year figures published yesterday this...
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05.11.09

It is one of the abiding political myths in this country that a Conservative Government is good to the City as opposed to being good for it. The...
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04.11.09

The monthly meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) starts today and while these things are rarely dull — not these days...
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03.11.09

The life assurance sector has had a rough year. It weathered the financial crisis relatively well with no spectacular casualties and none of the...
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02.11.09

The boss of BP, Tony Hayward, said this weekend in public what many in business believe but precious few are prepared to live by.

30.10.09

The excitement which greeted Centrica's decision yesterday to build a big new offshore wind farm, financed in part by recycling its capital out of...
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29.10.09

A generation ago, around 1980, Kleinwort Benson was the same size as Goldman Sachs.

28.10.09

Though Lloyds' massive capital raising now seems inevitable there still seem to be two bits of unfinished business.

27.10.09

The latest issue of National Savings Certificates was described in a press release yesterday as “a great deal for customers, but a kick in the teeth...
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26.10.09

For some years now Andrew Fisher, the chief executive of the independent financial advisers Towry Law, has told anyone who cared to listen that no...
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