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Elsewhere on the web: Parliamentary 'privilege'

Your guide to the most essential reading elsewhere on the web

12 May 2009

Analysis

UK tops the FTSE4Good entries

Latest global indices review reflects UK companies’ lead on responsible and sustainable business practices

27 Apr 2009

Analysis

Secret's out: G20 agree on need for information sharing

No shelter for tax havens as international agreement on transparency is reached

27 Apr 2009

Analysis

Sustained deflation: is it good for the economy?

Short-term price falls amount to a windfall for consumers. But as the retail prices index goes negative, there is a real danger that sustained deflation will exacerbate global recession

27 Apr 2009

Analysis

Is the bear market over?

We are still a long way from anything like economic stability, but equity markets have being rallying since early March. Have we seen the bottom of the market or do more shocks await

27 Apr 2009

Analysis

Bank regulation by the numbers

We summarise and enumerate a speech given FSA chairman Adair Turner on 27 March

30 Mar 2009

Analysis

FD wealth dented by holdings in own companies

Finance directors of FTSE-100 companies lost an average £910,000 in 2008 as the value of personal wealth tied up with their employers fell in line with the companies’ share price

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

'Printing money' pushes up pension costs

Twelve billion pounds was added to the aggregate pensions deficit of FTSE-350 constituents overnight when the Bank of England started using quantitative easing measures in March, according to actuary Hymans Robertson.

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

Lord Mandelson gets taste of direct action

The UK government is in talks with some of the biggest companies in Europe on how best to undertake the creation of a low-carbon economy in the UK. It hopes business leaders will work with government to develop a framework on the premise that tackling climate change can help lift the British economy out of recession.

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

IFAC puts down online marker

Web-based tool offers clear guidance on managing companies’ sustainability burden

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

KPMG's carbon accounting checklist

KPMG’s latest white paper outlines the who, what, why and when of environmental reporting for larger companies

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

Unemployment figures at an all-time high

The rate of unemployment reached its highest level since 1997 in the three months to January 2009, rising to 6.5% ­ 2.03 million people, the Office for National Statistics says

24 Mar 2009

Analysis

More eyes on the prize: FSA and the Bank of England

The FSA and the Bank of England could share some duties to provide stronger oversight, now we’re junking the hands-off regulatory regime that has purposely dulled their senses

23 Mar 2009

Analysis

Interest rates: A quantum of easing

With interest rates now at 0.5% – their lowest level ever – the Bank of England can’t make money much cheaper. All it can really do now is make it more plentiful

23 Mar 2009

Analysis

Quantitative easing: What is it? And will it work?

With interest rates now at 0.5%, the Bank of England can't make money much cheaper. All they can do now is make it more plentiful. Will this strategy work? An FD web exclusive.

08 Mar 2009

Analysis

NEW: Financial Director's monthly charts section is on the web

Courtesy of Thomson Financial Datastream, our monthly Financial Directions financial markets charts section is available to download

03 Mar 2009

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Latest Opinion

Business' best friend

Finance people must be the critical friend of business, writes CIMA's John Windle

Cutting electronic systems down to size

To be more competitive, we need far less management in companies, government and our electronic systems

Markets are too addicted to repeated doses of cheap cash

Large injections of liquidity by the major central banks have played a key role in underpinning recent bouts of optimism, but danger is still lurking in the shadows

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Practical implications of a GAAR

The lack of certainty may inhibit many arrangements which are currently felt to be part of everyday planning, writes Owen Clutton

IAS 39 problems flare up again

Pirc is advising shareholders to vote against Barclays’ annual report. Richard Crump finds out why

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