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Time to step out of the shadow of the crisis, says BIS in 84th Annual Report

To return to sustainable and balanced growth, policies need to go beyond their traditional focus on the business cycle

Barclays Advises an Incremental Shift to a Defensive Portfolio

Global Outlook report recommends that investors reduce their exposure to global fixed income and increase their allocation to cash

Global cross-border M&A activity on rise - Baker & McKenzie

Powerful macroeconomic and political forces continue to provide impetus to globalization, and companies around the world are driven by their strategies to move into new markets and jurisdictions.

The Global Entrepreneurial Report: Emerging Wealth 2014

Oracle Capital Group has just launched “The Global Entrepreneurial Report: Emerging Wealth 2014.”

Investors adopting partnership-driven approach to hedge funds, says Barclays study

This can include managed accounts or funds of one, which offer investors better transparency

Sport’s Summer Season is upon us - don’t let the taxman bowl you a googly byLesley Fidler

Sport’s summer season has finally arrived, and many businesses will be digging deep to impress clients and staff with a bit of corporate hospitality – but care is needed to avoid falling foul of the taxman…

Easy Money for European Equity Funds

2012 pledge from ECB's Draghi continues to buoy investor confidence

7 sins of fund management

Though penned almost a decade ago, the advice is timeless and has not diminished in value over the years

The Europe 2020 Competitiveness Report

The 2014 Report, the second in a biennial series, provides a timely update and review of Europe’s progress on its own competitiveness agenda, taking advantage of the Forum’s data, analysis and comparisons to non-European economies.

Get real: asset managers ditch swaps for loans

With swaps markets becoming less liquid and more expensive, especially for longer-dated trades, some pension funds are winding back the clock and sourcing long-dated, real assets to hedge their liabilities. But the strategy carries its own risks, reports

Evolving Investment Management Regulation, Clarity leads to opportunity - KPMG

The key areas are structural market change, data and reporting, risk governance, conduct, culture and remuneration.

BNP Paribas Securities Services launches front office outsourcing report

Drivers include the need to keep pace with new regulatory requirements, advances in technology and the need to diversify in new markets and instruments.

Asset growth is returning: EFAMA

The asset management industry has seen its fastest growth since the economic crisis

Asset managers look to outsource front office

Drivers include regulation, technology advances and need to diversify in new markets

Asset managers must adapt: KPMG

Asset managers need to adjust their distribution strategies, states accountancy group report.

Interpreting the Quiet in FX - Neil Staines, ECU

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing” - Robert Benchley

Vanguard: 50% of advisers plan to increase ETF usage

In the survey taken at its June Investment Symposium, 50% of the 220 advisers polled said they would increase their usage of Exchange Traded Funds.

European banks hampered by ‘1970s’ tech: Deloitte

Europe's banks are under siege from digital disruption, and must make huge IT investments to remain competitive

Lights Out by Justin Urquhart Stewart

"The lamps are going out all over Europe" was the first part of the famous and very prescient quote by Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War.

Wealthy individuals from the most entrepreneurial countries tend to remain in their homelands

New report ranks world’s most entrepreneurial countries

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