A day in the life of the modern investment risk adviser would surely frighten the living daylights out of those who went before in a similar role.
Metal exchanges are exactly what their name suggests: venues for the sale and purchase of base, precious and semi-precious metals.
Sector-based exchange-traded funds can play an important role in investment strategy. They help diversify risk by spreading investment funds across equity stocks
Stock markets began before ‘stock’ meant equity in businesses – when it meant animals (sheep, cows and pigs). Stock markets date back to the agricultural revolution, when our ancestors stopped being hunter-gatherers.
TMX Group describes itself as an integrated, multi-asset class exchange group, domiciled in Canada and incorporated under the Business Corporations Act
The spread of Shariah-compliant finance in the Middle East, India and Africa is both a good thing and a bad thing. Everything depends on the perspective of the observer.
Anecdotal evidence from the investment banking industry suggests that 70% of all mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail and destroy value, sometimes spectacularly.
The technical picture in hard currency (HC) emerging market debt (EMD) has a strong positive bias, according to NN Investment Partners.
Euronext describes itself as the leading pan-European exchange in the eurozone. It had nearly 1,300 listed issuers worth some €3.5 trillion in market capitalisation at end March 2017.
This is a history of the short life so far of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), established in China on 1 December 1990 under the supervision of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).
The four most frightening words for the financial markets are 'this time it's different'. Anyone who has lived through several economic cycles instinctively knows that.
Strong investment fund inflows far outweighed outflows for the week ended 31 May 2017, the Washington DC-based Investment Company Institute reported today.
Brexit is having a positive impact on the use of derivatives, says derivatives exchange Eurex in its latest monthly report. Markets are focussing on finance.
Securities trading in Hong Kong has an exotic history with taipan-era reports dating back to the mid-19th century. The first formal market, the Association of Stockbrokers in Hong Kong, was not established until 1891
Pan-European exchange Euronext has published its trading volumes for May. The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,471m
