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Coutts: What goes up must come down

Market moves over the past week showed the dangers of following the crowd, as investors rushed to take profit on some of this year’s best-loved trades.

The Italian Job - Becket on Italian banking

The Italian Job By: Tom Becket

Hedge funds step up financing of the 'real economy' - new AIMA paper

Hedge fund firms and other alternative asset managers are playing an increasingly important role in financing the economy, according to a new paper published by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund association.

Billion dollar managers set to “change investment for the better”

The asset managers, which include Railpen, a large UK pension scheme, have $11 trillion (€9.9 trillion) of assets under management between them and will try to effect change through Towers Watson’s not-for-profit Thinking Ahead Institute.

Unigestion sees marked improvement in hedge fund managers’ approach to ESG

Unigestion has surveyed the hedge fund and private asset managers it invests in on their approaches to ESG and has found the results encouraging.

In Land of Negative Yields, Junk Bonds Are The New Haven Assets

Bond markets around the world are being distorted as central banks step up cheap-money policies

Irish property top asset class for financial advisers, survey shows

More than half of 100 advisers surveyed choose property as preferred investment

The only way is up for Greek investment

Even as the Greek government scrambles to repay its debts and the economy shows little sign of improving, behind the scenes investors continue to eye the country with interest

Meet the invisibles – the wealthy and powerful at the heart of the Tory party

It’s a networking event in one of the City’s great glass towers

London sees banking jobs jump by a third

The number of jobs created in the City of London – the UK’s financial heart – increased by a third last month to more than 4,000, a new study has shown.

Unsafe at any price by Tim Price, PFP Wealth Management

There is one thing riskier than investing in a free market: investing in a rigged market

Global Real Estate Investors Expect to Increase Acquisitions in 2015 - REASEARCH

Responses were obtained from more than 700 real estate investors in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific

Investor Errors? by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Trying to time the market and the fear of failure that forces selling.

On billionaire altruist lunatics.. by Tim Price

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley.

Speech by CS at Belgian Business Leaders Luncheon in Brussels, Belgium

Following is the speech by the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mrs Carrie Lam, at the Belgian Business Leaders Luncheon in Brussels, Belgium today

Slovenia should push privatisation, introduce pension reform - OECD

Further action is needed to improve the business environment, notably by strengthening corporate governance, reducing regulatory burdens on business operations, and continuing the planned privatisation process.

Real estate inflows likely to accelerate - LaSalle IM's Jacobson

The amount of capital going into real estate is very high in almost every part of the world – and it is not changing.

Hedge funds differ on minimum investment issue

Hedge fund professionals who attended the latest Opalesque Cayman Roundtable offered differing opinion on whether it is time to lower the minimum investments in hedge funds and whether the industry is going more mainstream or not.

BlackRock Gold & General moved to The Adviser Centre Recommended list

BlackRock Gold & General is the only dedicated gold equity fund that is currently featured on The Adviser Centre.

Turkey leads Europe in mobile banking - ING Bank

He also stressed that their target was 80 percent.

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