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Eurozone: Springing into recovery - Schroders

Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist, gives his views on the outlook for the eurozone economy

UK contributes $9.3 million to IMF statistics in Africa and the Middle East

The International Monetary Fund and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development have launched a new project

Hargreaves Lansdown founder: 'There are far too many useless fund managers'

Peter Hargreaves, who became a billionaire by selling funds, has made an outspoken attack on the managers who run them

Morgan Stanley Bankers Happiest With Bonuses While BNP Dismayed

Morgan Stanley’s London-based bankers are the most satisfied with their bonuses of any firm in the city

Having an Impact

Socially responsible investing in Europe set to rise on back of upturn in global economy

Cameron Victory Prompts London’s City to Breathe Sigh of Relief

With David Cameron’s Conservatives set to retain power, financiers in the City of London are likely to breathe a sigh of relief.

How Basel III and CRD IV are killing the hedge fund model

In hedge fund land that means prime brokers are now also starting with cherry-picking their clients

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.

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