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Fee Cuts Set to Increase Across All European Institutional Client Types

Cerulli Associates finds managers expect to cut fees across all four main institutional client categories in Europe over the coming 12 to 24 months

Business improves around the globe - Coutts

The latest round of purchasing managers’ indices (PMIs) of business activity has reinforced our positive outlook for a broad-based recovery in the global economy.

The Good, the Bad and the Deceptively Calm! by Neil Staines, ECU

"I Share [Christine] Lagarde’s assessment of ‘deceptive calm’” - Angela Merkel

Coutts Global Markets Weekly - Bond prices defy gravity

Over the past week, yields on 10-year US Treasuries reached their lowest level for a year, while the S&P 500 reached a new all-time high.

Report suggests that wealth management companies could spend their IT investment more effectively

On the positive side, there is growing confidence in the wealth management sector and investing in new technology is perceived to be central to business growth

Assets of German Millionaire Forecast to Grow 25%

The number of German millionaires is expected to rise by 11% over the next four years, but wealth distribution remains uneven.

It's A Rich Man's World: Capital In The Twenty-First Century

Neo-liberal economic policies will lead to more and more inequality and social unrest, argues the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Policy makers should take heed of this important book.

Saïd Business School Joins the Call for Financial Inclusion for Women Worldwide

The full petition will be delivered in person to the UN in New York on 9 June 2014.

A retirement utopia or pensioner's dilema?

Brewin Dolphin warns of the dangers of missing out on pension advice

Large Bank LIBOR Liabilities; A Look At Fines Paid To Date

A recap of developments in the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal to date

Do All Women Want Rich Men Like Female Penguins?

The more pebbles a male penguin has for his nest, the more irresistible he will be to females

European Banks, Look How You’ve Shrunk

At the end of 2012 there were three European banks with balance sheets of more than €2 trillion

Invesco named as fund house of the year

Boutique and medium-sized fund houses offer the highest returns

UK economic recovery hampered by continued distrust in the banking sector

The SME Finance Monitor also revealed that 48% of small businesses that took part in the survey were ‘permanent non-borrowers’

World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Should Follow Canada's Model

A new in-depth review of the world’s commonly accepted top sovereign wealth fund is being told to take a page out of the Canadian playbook.

Getting Smart Beta

Smart beta is used to describe indexes that use rules-based stock picking and alternative weighting methods

Interview: David Ferguson, Nucleus Financial Group

Wraps are a relatively new phenomenon in this country.

Italy asset management posts inflows of 7 bln euros in April

Total inflows over the first four months of the year amounted to 36.5 billion euros

Ireland Leading European Location For Asia-Pacific Asset Managers

The survey found that the views of Asia-Pacific asset managers are in line with their international colleagues

Flotation Fatigue by Justin Urquhart Stewart

The news last week that some of the institutional investors being offered shares in Saga were getting somewhat disgruntled should come as no surprise. We have had a raft (sorry for the poor pun) of flotations and, as is often the case, they have not lived

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