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European Property Funds Hit the Roof Market can grow if home ownership declines

The average price of a London home has hit £500,000 (US$785,000)

Defining digital differences amid financial disruption

To help understand these differences, we recently surveyed 4,400 affluent middle class consumers

Should you do a Masters in Finance, a CFA qualification, or both?

Although it varies from Masters course to Masters course, there’s a definite overlap between what you’ll learn on a Masters in Finance course and a CFA course.

This is what your private banking salary and bonus should be in Hong Kong

And we’ve done this across five broad levels of seniority job titles in private banking differ from firm to firm – some include the term “director” within ranks two to four, while others prefer “VP”.

Barclays money-laundering rap is oddly reassuring

The FCA didn’t have a problem so much with the “politically exposed persons” themselves

Britain joins sovereign wealth party too late

The economics of this plan, which was first floated by Osborne in 2014, are fragile.

Wealth managers split over opportunities and threat of robo advice

New research has revealed a split in the attitudes wealth managers in the UK have towards robo advice.

Private Equity Investor Reports Fall In Net Asset Value

The company, which is not making investment in new private equity funds, is managing its existing investments and returning capital to shareholders.

'Brexit' would lead to loss of 100,000 bank jobs, says City

A vote to quit the European Union would trigger a flood of up to 100,000 banking jobs out of London, senior City figures have warned.

"George Osborne has not deviated from his commitment to austerity" - Nancy Curtin, Chief Investment Officer, Close Brothers Asset Management

This is a key reason why the prospect of interest rate rises has become more distant in the UK. While the deficit is being addressed by Osborne’s ongoing fiscal tightening, the economy’s expansion is being supported by looser monetary policy f

Fund manager profile: Standard Life Investments

Gill Newton talks to SLI’s Mikhail Zverev about collaborative transatlantic working practices and looking for positive fundamental change

Institutionalisation raises operational bar for hedge funds, says survey

And the longer term trend is for more of the same.

Morning Coffee: Which 35-year-old traders earn over $530k? The glory days are over

If you work in the fixed income currencies and commodities division of a large investment bank, you have every right to feel a little hard done by.

Strategy Update from BNP Paribas Investment Partners

Declines in the prices of base metals and oil and geopolitical developments were too much for markets to digest, so equities took a step down.

`Brexit' Riskier for Fund Managers Than Banks, Report Says

That could lead to higher transactional costs and a need for more investment staff, while country-by-country distribution arrangements may have to be set up adding to the managers’ expenses.

EU banks better capitalised in 2015, but NPLs remain of concern

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the outcome of its 2015 EU-wide transparency exercise and provided detailed bank-by-bank data on capital positions, risk exposure amounts and asset quality on 105 banks from 21 countries of the European E

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