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Things you must never confess to in an investment banking interview

Now that banks are places of moral rectitude and cultural reform, it’s easier still.

Brooks Macdonald expands discretionary services in S. Africa

The Global Life Plan is a unit-linked investment plan from leading South African-based provider Glacier International, a division of Glacier by Sanlam.

Germany’s Banks Wake Up to Tech Innovation

Germany’s financial institutions were happy to ignore the threat from financial technology start-up companies until recently, but now they’re eager to engage.

Jersey’s credit rating reaffirmed

The AA+ credit rating was first assigned in November 2013 in order that the States was able to proceed with the £250 million bond earmarked to provide investment in affordable housing over the next 10 years.

Elderly’s bid to spend wealth to avoid paying care sees councils face £1.62bn bill

The number of people prepared to spend their wealth now to avoid paying for care later has almost doubled, leaving councils in England facing a bill of £1.62bn a year.

Could pension fund management be the next big mis-selling scandal?

Paying people to manage your investments means you make less money

Pension survey shows fierce competition for assets

This requires increasingly sophisticated services from asset managers.

Morning Coffee: UBS MD destroys own life, that of recruiter friends. Hot US boutique hiring in London

Jones reportedly rose to become the head of emerging market sales at UBS, but seemingly left the bank for J.P. Morgan in 2009.

Fund management sets fresh £7tn asset record

TheCityUK, which represents Britain’s financial services industry, also forecast that year-on-year growth would top 9 per cent.

Iran banks unprepared for post-sanctions world

Tasked with courting prospective suitors, Iran's central bank governor Valiollah Seif and a battalion of Iranian bankers arrived in Frankfurt this week to meet with European counterparts.

Top 100 advisers: Barclays

Steep sales increase boosts Barclays Group

Q&A with Yogi Dewan: Why everyone misunderstands risk

For high net worth families, preserving wealth for future generations is more important than risking it for an outsized return.

Inequality in the UK: 5% of households have assets in excess of £1.2m, 9% have none

Institute of Fiscal Studies report shows Britain is more unequal country when measured by wealth than by income

PA OPINION: Why wealth managers must act now to save their future

Break a mirror, and you’ll get seven years of bad luck. Break the banking system, and it’ll take that long just for regulators to work out who’s to blame.

S&P Capital IQ and SNL Announce Agreement for Delivery of Credit Ratings and Research to Central Banks of the European Union

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ Credit Ratings and Research to be Made Available to Participating Banks through S&P Capital IQ’s RatingsDirect® and Xpressfeed Delivery Platforms

Wealthy overseas buyers leave the luxury London property market

Wealthy overseas buyers are leaving the posh London property market, new research suggests.

The connected consumer: a life lived online - Osborne Clarke

Almost every aspect of people’s lives now interconnects across a personal network of online devices, objects and services, driven by technology that is continually advancing and consumer expectations that are constantly evolving.

Britons Largely Oblivious to Mutuals and the Benefits of Mutuality

More encouragingly, 33% of respondents identified a mutual as an organisation owned by its members/customers

The Paris attacks as a potential wake-up call by Mikio Kumada, CIIA, Global Strategist LGT Capital Partners

Equity market volatility was not boosted by the Paris attacks

'The other Great Wall of China - the Wall of Money' - Temple Field Property

Asian interest in UK residential real estate is building rapidly, and Temple Field is increasingly and strongly of the view that the true impact of Chinese investment into the UK, and in particular the London residential property market, has only just beg

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