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The 20 most desirable jobs in the financial sector in 2016

The UK is the exception, where investment banks’ traders are competing for the few roles available in the current market. Even here, however, private equity is a popular choice.

FTSE could fall over 10 percent if UK votes to leave EU - UBS Wealth Management

UBS Wealth Management forecast sterling/dollar GBP= falling to 1.25 and sterling/euro GBPEUR= down to 1.20 on currency markets if Britain voted to leave the EU.

What would a Rothschild-Alliance merger mean for investors?

But this may be the start of a long period of mooted mergers for Alliance.

When a mafia expert tells us Britain is the most corrupt country in the world, it's time to start listening

In London, the financial mafia don't take out death warrants on truth tellers, but powerful financial firms will destroy the lives and reputations of whistleblowers. Newsnight found they have a 100 per cent success rate

Is HSBC Holdings plc inadvertently strangling itself?

Specifically, the group believes that there are only three types of investment banks that will ever be able to meet their cost of capital.

How secure is gold as a store of wealth for investors?

Gold is one of the best-performing assets of 2016, but its reputation may be overstated

Top cops reveal how to stay safe from online fraudsters and the tricks to avoid

So what can you do to make sure you don’t become a victim?

Consolidation is coming to Europe’s retail sector - Catella

Future technological innovation and the societal impact of digital natives will radically alter the definition of shopping between now and 2030.

Commodities: The Bear Market Is over - Schroders

Geoff Blanning, Head of Commodities, comments on why he believes that a new bull market for commodities has begun

St. James's Place - A Fed rate rise is expected to occur shortly Inbox x

A Fed rate rise is expected to occur shortly as strength in economic data and the S&P 500 rose 2.2%. Reid believes that the first rise was perhaps a little early, expecting a rise to occur in September but with the “possibility of two rises this

Alliance Trust will be hard pressed to better a RIT takeover approach

That is entirely right and proper.

Wealth management industry dangerously behind the curve in adoption of digital technology

Firms that don’t respond now simply won’t survive in the medium to long term, says new PwC report

Half of cross-border advisers move towards recurring income

Forward thinking advisers will be the long-term winners, and those who do not embrace change risk being left behind.

Lansdowne Partners: Brexit would hit EU banks

UK hedge fund manager Lansdowne Partners has warned a vote by the UK to quit Europe would put the European banking system under pressure.

ESMA Issues Opinion On MiFID II Standards On Ancillary

In order to achieve this, ESMA’s RTS 20 had designed quantitative tests, a trading activity and a business activity test.

2 out of 3 people ‘sleepwalking’ into LTA-triggered tax charges

An alarming number of people are sleepwalking into tax charges for breaching the lifetime allowance on pensions, warns the Head of Advice at the UK division of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.

What a carve-up by Tim Price

What do pensioners want more than anything else ? They want certainty.”

Britain's property market has started to signal that the crash is coming

However, it is worth noting that this is likely to be affected by the government's implementation in April of a new tax on people buying a second home.

Ranked: The 20 biggest European venture capital firms in 2016

With the help of venture capital tracking firm CB Insights, Business Insider has ranked the biggest European venture capital funds raised since 2010, by size.

Diversity crisis: just 10% of fund managers are women

Investment industry under pressure to eradicate ‘macho’ culture after Citywire reveals just 10% of world’s fund managers are women.

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