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Bank of Italy Gov. Visco Suggests National 'Bad Bank'

Bank of Italy Gov. Ignazio Visco on Saturday floated the idea of a national bad bank to help lenders shed troubled assets and boost new loans to Italian companies

Swedish fund to open research office in Pakistan

“Changing the perception of Pakistan in the eyes of international investors will be a gradual process. Pakistani corporate (entities) have shown one of the highest average returns on equity (ROE) across emerging and frontier markets in the last 10 y

Eurozone banks face £42bn 'capital black hole’

Government adviser Davide Serra says this year’s stress tests by European authorities are likely to find fresh problems in the eurozone banks.

Wealth X CEO: Why Money And Power Go Hand-In-Hand

Wealth, among other things, buys the ability to innovate without constraints or boundaries, writes Mykolas D. Rambus, CEO of Wealth X.

Global asset base predicted to pass $100 trillion barrier by 2020

Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds

Shoppers from China and Gulf flock to London

London's high-end retailers enjoyed a boom in spending by Chinese customers over the first weekend of February as tourists flocked to the capital for Chinese New Year, according to the latest figures from payments firm WorldPay.

Shake up retail branches with franchise model?

The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.

Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Testing times for Yellen

We suspect that new Fed chairman Janet Yellen would not want to significantly change policy at her first meeting in March.

market risk has shot up since year's start - Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management

REMAP portfolios seek diversification in infrastructure & currencies

EU officials must break top-down reform fixation

"Generals always fight the last war."

Junior I-Bankers Say New 'Work-Life Balance' a Myth

Following the tragic death of an intern in Bank of America’s London unit, banks have announced new guidelines that will prevent senior executives from working their junior employees literally to death.

Dougan Says Credit Suisse Challenged by Emerging Markets Rout

Credit Suisse Group AG has been affected by the slump in emerging markets this year as conditions worsened

Top hedge fund bets on Danish debt crisis

Denmark became Scandinavia's weakest economy after a housing bubble that burst in 2008

Deutsche Bank caps cash bonus at 300,000 euros

Deutsche, which told staff about bonuses on Wednesday, said last week total pay in its corporate banking & securities division was 5.3 billion euros for 2013, down 14.4 pct from 2012.

Rothschild Market Perspective February 2014

Equities more attractive than other asset classes; portfolio hedges increased as valuations stretched

Europe's Fund Industry Is Not Bold Enough

Three good reasons to close or merge funds: performance, profitability, pointlessness

Richard Buxton - Renowned fund manager shares his latest views

Legendary investor Sir John Templeton once said: "It is impossible to produce a superior performance unless you do something different from the majority." No one encapsulates this more than Richard Buxton, one of the most successful fund manager

UK becomes second largest pensions market as assets soar - Towers Watson

Global pension fund assets have now grown at over 6.7% on average per annum (in USD) since 2003.

Tinker, Taper, Soldier ... Slide? by Neil Staines, Head of Trading and Execution, ECU

Does the equity market dig in and soldier on from its current level ... or slide further?

Building the momentum for effective investor stewardship - White Paper from Standard Life Investments

Standard Life Investments have today issued a report with practical recommendations to stimulate change and build momentum for improvements to build on the success of the UK’s Stewardship Code and raise the bar from compliance to excellence.

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