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Four key factors will shape global funds industry

Four key themes dominated the two panel sessions – technology, people, the impact of Covid and climate change.

Record high Eurozone inflation will leave ECB in wait and see mode

Nevertheless, France too has been struggling, with inflation reaching 3.4%, the highest it has been since 2008 and Spanish producer-price inflation has hit record levels too.

UK will not engage in ‘tit for tat’ with EU over financial services

Senior Bank of England official says regulator will not seek to restrict access to British market

Uneven recovery for emerging Europe finance and leasing in 2022

This facilitates growth and underpins asset quality and profitability against pressures amid the aftermath of the pandemic

OECD Economic Outlook sees recovery continuing but warns of growing imbalances and risks

The Outlook projects a rebound in global economic growth to 5.6% this year and 4.5% in 2022, before settling back to 3.2% in 2023, close to the rates seen prior to the pandemic.

Warm weather unicorns

Robeco’s Trends Investing team monitors markets closely.

Mark Harrison, CTO, Killik & Co, Talks About Digital Transformation

Mark is a highly experienced business leader with an outstanding track record in promoting, overseeing, and delivering business transformation programmes.

8% of UK advisers to sell their business in next five years

This increases to 23% for sole financial planners

Alternative Investment Predictions for 2022

Of those surveyed, 80% were located in the US and Europe, with family offices representing the largest category (32%), followed by fund of funds at 21% and investment consultants at 19%.

Changing Fund Administrators Can Be Painless

There are several areas of concern where technology can be especially helpful. For instance, conversion of historical data into new formats.

New study by the University of Oxford and Lombard Odier examines the predictors of success in a greening world

The report, Predictors of Success in a Greening World, offers a global, 25-year-long perspective on countries’ standing in global trade in high-growth green industries, and the extent to which each country has adequately directed their Covid-19 reco

Is Omicron the new economic Boogeyman?

The worst is never certain and, as information on the new Omicron variant become known in the coming days or weeks

The Omicron Edition by Sanctum Wealth

The new strain reportedly has many more spike proteins than other variants, which potentially enhances its ability to evade immune systems.

Ransomware attacks surge across UK, new report finds

The report also warned that the high levels of home working prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic meant criminals were increasingly able to use ’off-the-shelf‘ malware to exploit unpatched software and weaknesses in VPNs to access organisations&am

Free the markets! by Tim Price

The collective market response to an alleged new strain of coronavirus on Friday did not speak warmly of any fondness on the part of investors to ever more enhanced government economic intervention.

How did COP26 measure up? - Lombard Odier

COP26 was billed as the last chance to keep the goal of limiting global warming well below 2°C on track.

Quarter of solo advisers expect to leave industry

This corresponded with 62 per cent of all sole practitioners stating they have found the "burden, cost and pressure of regulation to be a major challenge for their business".

Vaccination status and flexible workstyle influence consumer optimism

Overall, 61% of respondents are optimistic about the future, and only 18% are not.

Rethink the Month: November – neuroplasticity, central banks and TINA

This process, which gives us the ability to navigate a world in constant flux, has helped us prevail over other species since the first Homo sapiens appeared around 300,000 years ago.

How can investors assess impacts on nature?

Catherine Macaulay, our ESG team's natural capital and biodiversity research specialist, explores how we can assess exposure to nature-related risks.

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