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The UK High Street
Three UK High Street chains (Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster) going bust already this year has set a few alarm bells ringing. It has been a tough Christmas and January sales period for many retailers: the...
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Price Dynamics in the Property Market
Over the last forty years there has been a massive explosion of interest in modelling market prices of assets such as equities, bonds, FX and commodities. In comparison, property prices have received...
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Why house prices are so important
Many followers of central bank interest rate decisions will have noticed how often interest rate policy, particularly in the UK, appears to be determined by the perceived need to either support or...
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Equity Indices’ Performance Drag
Whilst the debate between active management and index tracking rumbles on, little attention has been paid to the performance of equity indices themselves. One might imagine that a composite equity...
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On Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher’s death reminds us what a divisive figure she remains, many years after her time in power. See, for example,...
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Japanese Debt
Today sees another warning to Japan, this time from the OECD, about how their mountain of government debt remains the country’s “paramount challenge”. There is, of course, some truth in what the OECD...
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Price Bubbles
An increasing number of commentators are writing about a possible bubble in asset prices (for example see today’s Telegraph,...
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Business models following RDR
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) forces the UK Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) sector to change its charging model from embedded to explicit fees. This shift is having a massive effect on the...
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House Price Indices
Whether rising house prices are a good or bad thing for the UK economy remains a matter of some debate. Commentators on the matter typically base their analysis on the performance of house price...
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Why UK House Prices are Going Up
Although the monthly data are still somewhat variable, there is a building consensus that UK house prices are rising. Prime London residential property prices have been on the up for a few years now,...
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