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UK jobs market ignoring signs of impending recession

Employees did see their pay, excluding bonuses, rise by 4.7% from April to June

Locational quality 2022: Aargau down two places; Schaffhausen in competition with Lucerne

The Canton of Aargau has suffered the biggest ranking loss, dropping two places to lie just behind Nidwalden and Schwyz in 7th place.

Rathbone Global Opps piles into ‘crown jewel’ stocks

The managers of the Rathbone Global Opportunities fund took advantage of market weakness to add several ‘crown jewel’ businesses to the portfolio over a bruising second quarter.

How does inflation affect insurance-linked securities?

Inflation impacts insurance-linked securities (ILS) in a range of ways that investors in other asset types may not be familiar with.

Warren Buffett's darkest secrets

Continental was smart enough to make that list twice. As of 1992, in fact – though the picture would have improved since then – the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero.

In the UK and Europe, a summer like no other – RBC Wealth Management

The next occupant of Number 10 Downing Street will face a very challenging economic backdrop.

'Good is bad, bad is good’ idea is too simplistic

The July payrolls report isn’t a game-changer, but it does impact the timing of a potential recession and could make a soft-landing more likely, not less.

Biotech and the era of great liquidity

Initial public offerings and secondary offerings are the lifeblood of the biotech industry.

A Challenges and an Opportunity

Last week’s US employment report had investors fretting about tight labour markets and the persistence of reasonable growth.

Property values may be about to fall, but Derwent's demand remains high

Positive rental growth continues for the portfolio

Real estate: five tips on mortgage loans

Their advantage is that the debt only accrues as and when invoices for the building work are received.

Deutsche Bank adopts measures to further reduce its energy consumption

This is equivalent to the average annual consumption of around 1,600 two-person households.

Are family businesses more resilient?

While the share prices of family-owned businesses slumped by 23.7 percent during the first phase of Covid, companies without a family shareholder saw their share prices drop even more – by 30.7 percent.

Tentative dollar divergence, continued euro weakness

While acknowledging this tentative change in mood, we are not altering our broader dollar outlook for several reasons.

Why Indosuez CIO moved back into tech and increased duration

As the narrative is shifting from inflation to global recession fears, the investment team is leaning on long duration assets.

Quilter makes one-off cost-of-living payment to employees

Quilter wants to help employees mitigate the impact of price rises given the difficult economic backdrop, with inflation in the UK forecast by the Bank of England to top 11% later this year.

Q2 2022 Wayfarer Quarterly Commentary - WHIreland

Inflation continued its rampage across the western world, hitting 40-year highs in the UK and US and the highest level in Europe since the inception of the Euro.

Fitch Affirms Banque Pictet at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable

Stable and Diversified Business Model: Pictet is one of Switzerland's largest wealth managers, and its business model has performed well since the start of the pandemic.

Gap between earnings expectations and economic reality narrows

To these fears are now added the risk of a recession as central banks try to slow economies with higher borrowing costs.

England's elite hiding billions of inherited wealth

After calculating the expected flow of inherited wealth after 1920, and taking into account the impact of war and death taxes, he found that the declared wealth of certain elite families was significantly lower than expected.

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