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A Resurgence of Growth in the European Fund-of-Funds Market

Demand set to reignite as regulatory costs rise

"The future is no more uncertain than the present” - Walt Whitman

Certain Uncertainties in FX

Selecting and Monitoring 'Style' Managers for Long-Term Performance - Stonehage Know How Bulletin

The inclusion of 'style' managers such as 'value' or 'quality' as core drivers within an equity portfolio can potentially improve an investor’s long-term returns.

All for one and one for all? by Jens Weidmann

The roles of microprudential, macroprudential, and monetary policy in safeguarding financial stability

Luxury Industry Optimistic About Q1 2014 UHNW Spending, Luxury Sentiment Survey Shows

More than 30% of those polled expect revenue to rise by more than 10% in Q1 2014, the report shows.

The ongoing ethics struggle of banks

The Swiss Bank Employees Association has told an uncomfortable truth: it was “generally known” that for many years some of their employers profited from customers’ “tax evasion.”

The Trillion-dollar Question: Who Owns Emerging Market Government Debt?

There are a trillion reasons to care about who owns emerging market debt. That's how much money global investors have poured into in these government bonds in recent years --$1 trillion.

JP Morgan UK wealth head’s five-year plan to grow business fourfold

We had always served that audience group, but we were less known in that space

Who is the reclusive billionaire creator of Bitcoin?

Strangely, nobody knows who created it

Ireland the European domicile of choice for global asset managers - survey

Nearly three quarters of 200 global asset managers surveyed recently say they would now choose Ireland as one of their top three European fund domiciles, if they were starting over.

Another fine mess

Hypo Alpe Adria the name suggests a small, exotic bank.

Nuclear Japan

The end of 'datsu genpatsu' - escape from nuclear

Sustained Global Economic Expansion Expected Despite China Concerns and Emerging Market Turmoil - Richard Hoey

Orderly Deceleration of Chinese Economic Growth Anticipated; U.S. GDP Growth at 3% in 2014, 2015 and 2016

Ireland eyes new big player to boost banking sector

It has also left the country with only three SME lenders of scale, state-owned Allied Irish Banks , Royal Bank of Scotland's Ulster Bank and Bank of Ireland , which counts the Irish state as a 14 percent shareholder.

UK banks asked: could you weather an Asia crash?

Prudential Regulation Authority conducts detailed stress tests on exposure of HSBC and Standard Chartered to a Chinese financial crisis

Risky assets to deliver most attractive returns, supported by plentiful bank liquidity - Rothschild Market Perspective

Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.

Close Brothers survey says Yorkshire firms are losing the personal touch

Yorkshire firms are turning to modern communications instead of face-to-face meetings with clients and suppliers, it is claimed

Privacy or Secrecy? by Gary Heynes, Baker Tilly

MEPs have recently approved new rules to introduce an EU register of all beneficial owners of companies and foundations, and also private trusts. But could this present a risk to individuals that are in the public eye?

Royal Bank of Scotland posts biggest loss in six years

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported its biggest annual loss since it was rescued by the UK government during the financial crisis in 2008.

The Top 10 Emerging Economies Of 2014

After a decade as City darlings first the BRICs, now the MINTs the shine has gone off the emerging markets recently.

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