Monday, 17 November 2008

Latest Share Chat - Life Style Extra



ink pound, become a.. I last posted at c.600... does not 3 months make a difference. I was bullish on this stock and it has not changed much.Just so you all know , I am now ...
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UK commercial property prices fall at record pace - Guardian Unlimited
LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - UK commercial property prices dived by a record 4.3 percent in October, taking the market's total decline from a June 2007 peak to more than 28 percent ...
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tax & wills - Inheritance tax - This is Money
One positive factor that has emerged from the gloom of the economic turmoil is that it has presented a prize opportunity to mitigate inheritance tax. The collapse in the value of ...
Source: www.thisismoney.co.uk

Hedge Funds Post Fifth Monthly Drop - Financial-Planning.com

Hedge Funds Post Fifth Monthly Drop
Financial-Planning.com, NY - 8 hours ago
By Matt Ackermann Hedge funds lost an average of 5.52% last month, according to data released by Hennessee Group LLC. The asset decline was the fifth in as ...

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Hedge Funds May Fall to $1 Trillion by Mid-2009, Citigroup Says - Bloomberg



Bloomberg - 4 hours ago
Funds of funds are middlemen who select hedge funds for their clients. ``The so-called `Swiss hot money' wants out and funds are responding,'' Levkovich ...

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Tepper, Barakett Abandon Stocks as Funds Cut Holdings (Update1) - Bloomberg

Tepper, Barakett Abandon Stocks as Funds Cut Holdings (Update1)
Bloomberg - 7 hours ago
Regulatory filings last week by 38 hedge funds with more than $1 billion in assets each show that selling and market declines cut the value of their ...
Quarterly Data Confirms Hedge Funds Exited Stocks In A Big Way StreetInsider.com (subscription)
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Empty gesture - InsideHousing
But that’s exactly what the Boris Johnson seems set to do when he publishes his housing strategy as London mayor this week.  Figures obtained by  Inside Housing  say that ...
Source: www.insidehousing.co.uk

Banks Forced to Lose Money by the Chancellor



A completely unreported effect of the Chancellor's demands that banks pass on the full 1.5% base rate drop o...
Source: news.assetz.co.uk

Property swindles exposed (Investors Chronicle)
Given the current crisis in the housing and mortgage markets, you would think that the days of the buy-to-let property seminar were over. Sadly, the reverse is true. Despite the collapse of property club Inside Track earlier this year, plenty more outfits have arrived to fill its place.
Source: www.investorschronicle.co.uk

Just Because You Say It Does Not Make It True
Mervyn King must think we are all wet behind the ears saying today that everything changed when Lehman brothers colla...
Source: news.assetz.co.uk

German stability may attract investors
When it comes to seeking a property market in which to invest, many have overlooked Germany in recent years, reasonin...
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More cuts on the way?



When the Bank of England's monetary policy committee voted to cut interest rates by 1.5 per cent last week, s...
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Rate hopes coming true
Last month brought a flurry of dramatic activity as governments and central banks battled to save their financial sys...
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Empty gesture - InsideHousing
But that’s exactly what the Boris Johnson seems set to do when he publishes his housing strategy as London mayor this week.  Figures obtained by  Inside Housing  say that ...
Source: www.insidehousing.co.uk

Conflict? What conflict?



To believe some headlines, one might think that the private rental system is one in which disputes between landlords ...
Source: news.assetz.co.uk

Hedge Funds Post Fifth Monthly Drop - Financial-Planning.com

Hedge Funds Post Fifth Monthly Drop
Financial-Planning.com, NY - 2 hours ago
By Matt Ackermann Hedge funds lost an average of 5.52% last month, according to data released by Hennessee Group LLC. The asset decline was the fifth in as ...

Source: news.google.com

UK hedge funds wary of signing up to code -survey - Reuters UK

UK hedge funds wary of signing up to code -survey
Reuters UK, UK - 4 hours ago
"It is essential that effective, appropriate self-regulation is applied to hedge funds," said Julian Korek, a member of Kinetic. "The global hedge fund ...
Few UK Hedge Funds Adopt Industry's Standards, Survey Says Bloomberg
UK Hedge Funds slow to adopt best industry practice standards RTT News
Hedge Fund Standards Get Cold Shoulder From Funds, Investors FINalternatives
Markets Media (press release) - HedgeWeek
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Fundamentalist view: Investors have a window into the future - Daily Telegraph
Profits are falling, house prices are tumbling and for all intents and purposes, the British economy is in recession. If times are getting tougher for businesses, surely the stock ...
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Hedge Funds Post Fifth Monthly Drop - Financial-Planning.com



Financial-Planning.com, NY - 2 hours ago
By Matt Ackermann Hedge funds lost an average of 5.52% last month, according to data released by Hennessee Group LLC. The asset decline was the fifth in as ...

Source: news.google.com

Forced convergence of China and US - bbc
So how much of the US economy, the home of free enterprise, will end up being nationalised or bailed out by the state during the current economic crisis? So far we've seen banks ...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Note to hedge funds: go short on letters to investors - Financial Times Deutschland

Note to hedge funds: go short on letters to investors
Financial Times Deutschland, Germany - 12 hours ago
It filled me with special satisfaction as I had just been doing some detailed textual analysis of the letters that hedge funds have sent out to investors in ...
Bonderman’s investor kiss Reuters UK
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Tax & wills - Inheritance tax - This is Money
One positive factor that has emerged from the gloom of the economic turmoil is that it has presented a prize opportunity to mitigate inheritance tax. The collapse in the value of ...
Source: www.thisismoney.co.uk

Land Securities slumps to £1.7bn loss - Daily Telegraph
The company, which made a profit of £365.2m in the same six months last year, suffered writedowns of £1.74bn amid an “unprecedented period of financial instability”. The plan ...
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Tax & wills - Inheritance tax - This is Money



One positive factor that has emerged from the gloom of the economic turmoil is that it has presented a prize opportunity to mitigate inheritance tax. The collapse in the value of ...
Source: www.thisismoney.co.uk

A Safety Board for Hedge Funds - New York Times

A Safety Board for Hedge Funds
New York Times, United States - Nov 14, 2008
By Joe Nocera Although it received almost no mention in the media, a panel of academic witnesses preceded the five hedge fund billionaires who appeared ...
Economic Crisis Hot Docs: US, Europe, Japan in Recession, Summit ... U.S. News & World Report
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City jobless figures fall - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
THE number of jobless people in Peterborough slipped last month bucking the national trend. While new figures show the number of people without jobs across Britain has soared from ...
Source: www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk

Not all gloom where once was boom
Those investing in property in recent years whose main aim was to ensure they bought in places with fast-rising price...
Source: news.assetz.co.uk