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Malta's economy set to grow by 4.5% this year, EU forecasts

Maltese economy suffered third-largest blow in the EU in 2020

Financial Lives 2020 survey: the impact of coronavirus

Key findings from the FCA’s Financial Lives 2020 survey and October 2020 Covid-19 panel survey.

Good governance and the role of women in family offices

Family Capital also looked at the Middle East family office world with respect to gender diversity.

How to beat Inheritance Tax in five easy moves

Planning now to mitigate the impact of Inheritance Tax can improve not only your life, but also your family’s. Here’s how to do it

9 million jobs at risk as business cash reserves fall dangerously low

The IPPR said said a significant number of jobs could be lost if the cash crisis for firms of all sizes is not quickly addressed and the government doesn’t extend its support, which is due to end in the next couple of months.

Is Italy warming up to robo-advisers?

High costs put pressure on very traditional financial services sector

Convenient exit or client sacrifice? Private equity's £3bn march into advice and wealth management

Nucleus latest firm in PE takeover

KPMG UK chairman told staff to ‘stop moaning’ about work conditions

They also raised an issue about KPMG measuring staff performance against a “forced distribution curve”

'No such thing as a superstar genius manager’

There’s a lot of clever people out there, but what stands out is those that can work well together and act to recognise and deal with those behavioural biases.

Covid-19 has made wealth managers’ IT advance 10 years

If you have a clear digital strategy and are advanced digitally then the past year will not have been bad.

Retail trading triggers questions around market values

That forced the hedge funds specialised in short selling the names to cover their short positions by buying stocks, reinforcing the price rises.

4 in 10 investors have dramatically increased investment expenditure throughout the Covid-19 pandemic

The respondents were surveyed on their savings and investment plans for the year ahead.

Model Portfolio Management: Striking the Balance Between Consistency and Customization

How can they reap the benefits of model portfolios that give them the necessary scale

Views From the Floor – The End of the Big Short?

Are we witnessing the end of returns to big shorts?; wage inflation remains the missing piece of the inflation puzzle; and the surprising trend of earnings revisions.

Stranger than fiction by Tim Price

After 30 years in the capital markets, you think you’ve seen everything – and then something like Wallstreetbets and the great short squeeze of 2021 come along.

Longest-Reigning Bank CEO in Europe Has One of Its Worst Records

An uneasy silence fell over the room as Oudea berated the gathering, people with knowledge of the meeting said, signaling the power he held over the board members who are meant to oversee him.

London’s ultra-rich ditch basement excavations as they swap the capital for the countryside

The number of applications to convert basements in Westminster has fallen as the wealthy leave for the countryside

Speculative Fictions: Gamestop, Bitcoin and Beyond by Coutts

Investors are reportedly making fortunes from their sofa using online trading apps to pursue highly speculative assets and trading strategies.

Patchy Economic Recovery – Not to Worry. - Gary Dugan

All eyes will be on the US inflation data given the current hot debate over the nature of any inflation risk to central bank policy and the financial markets.

Britain's biggest banks, including HSBC, preparing bonus pot

It will also maintain a £2,000 cap on cash handouts which has been in place since the financial crisis, they added.

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