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How secure is gold as a store of wealth for investors?

Gold is one of the best-performing assets of 2016, but its reputation may be overstated

Top cops reveal how to stay safe from online fraudsters and the tricks to avoid

So what can you do to make sure you don’t become a victim?

Consolidation is coming to Europe’s retail sector - Catella

Future technological innovation and the societal impact of digital natives will radically alter the definition of shopping between now and 2030.

Commodities: The Bear Market Is over - Schroders

Geoff Blanning, Head of Commodities, comments on why he believes that a new bull market for commodities has begun

St. James's Place - A Fed rate rise is expected to occur shortly Inbox x

A Fed rate rise is expected to occur shortly as strength in economic data and the S&P 500 rose 2.2%. Reid believes that the first rise was perhaps a little early, expecting a rise to occur in September but with the “possibility of two rises this

Alliance Trust will be hard pressed to better a RIT takeover approach

That is entirely right and proper.

Wealth management industry dangerously behind the curve in adoption of digital technology

Firms that don’t respond now simply won’t survive in the medium to long term, says new PwC report

Half of cross-border advisers move towards recurring income

Forward thinking advisers will be the long-term winners, and those who do not embrace change risk being left behind.

Lansdowne Partners: Brexit would hit EU banks

UK hedge fund manager Lansdowne Partners has warned a vote by the UK to quit Europe would put the European banking system under pressure.

ESMA Issues Opinion On MiFID II Standards On Ancillary

In order to achieve this, ESMA’s RTS 20 had designed quantitative tests, a trading activity and a business activity test.

2 out of 3 people ‘sleepwalking’ into LTA-triggered tax charges

An alarming number of people are sleepwalking into tax charges for breaching the lifetime allowance on pensions, warns the Head of Advice at the UK division of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.

What a carve-up by Tim Price

What do pensioners want more than anything else ? They want certainty.”

Britain's property market has started to signal that the crash is coming

However, it is worth noting that this is likely to be affected by the government's implementation in April of a new tax on people buying a second home.

Ranked: The 20 biggest European venture capital firms in 2016

With the help of venture capital tracking firm CB Insights, Business Insider has ranked the biggest European venture capital funds raised since 2010, by size.

Diversity crisis: just 10% of fund managers are women

Investment industry under pressure to eradicate ‘macho’ culture after Citywire reveals just 10% of world’s fund managers are women.

J.P. Morgan, Goldman, CS analysts switch to private equity as M&A dries up

The analysts and associates who lose their jobs as M&A fees dry up are unlikely to be the same as those who move to private equity.

Portugal is Europe's next looming economic disaster

Regardless of how much it is worth, a country's largest bank needing a recapitalisation is never going to be a good thing.

Bankers inwardly hate what they are doing, says City of London therapist

"At work they are thought of as some sort of superhero, but no one knows they are dying inside," she wrote.

Dan O'Brien: We didn't ask for change, but we're seeing it everywhere

By the middle of the next decade, fintech has the potential to transform how the financial system works - including the most mundane aspects of retail banking.

Curing death’ will create a vast pensions crisis

But, if a recent, if largely overlooked, report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is to be believed, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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