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Two-thirds of advisers recommend property funds

A Money Marketing survey of 186 advisers shows 63 per cent had recommended property since January 2015.

UBS retains positions as world's biggest private bank: study

The private banking benchmark study showed.

Brits should avoid acting German if the Bank of England cuts interest rates

Alongside gems like “[the Bundesbank] is like cream, the more you whip it the harder it gets”, the central bank’s pride in its plaudits speaks to a healthy self-regard for its historic achievements in inflation targeting before the intro

Ladies who don't lunch: Maike Currie talks to Christine Johnson about bonds, bubbles and being a rebel

Debt people are always worrying about the downside.

UK insurance industry facing customer expectation gap according to latest Target Group whitepaper

The whitepaper, which is based on a survey of 1,000 UK consumers, also reveals that almost one fifth (20%) of respondents admitted that they didn’t even look for important information, like how to make a claim, at the point of purchase.

Brexit unlikely to hit GCC sovereign wealth funds – Moody’s

Its latest report, ‘Sovereigns – Brexit and the Gulf Cooperation’, said that sovereign wealth fund portfolios are typically large and well diversified

Availability of professional job opportunities falls by 3.5% compared to May 2016

Professional job opportunities fell by 3.5% (11,633) in June 2016 when compared to the previous month (12,056) but were up 3% compared to June 2015 according to the Morgan McKinley June Employment Monitor.

Investors go alternative - RESEARCH

Total assets managed by the top 100 alternative investment managers globally reached $3.6 trillion up 3% on the prior year, according to research produced by Willis Towers Watson.

Barclays: Britain is 'on the cusp of recession'

The Brexit vote caused the pound to crash, and plunged Britain into an unprecedented situation

Ireland's economy expanded by an incredible 26% in 2015

Gross Domestic Product increased by 26.3% over the same period.

Global Asset Management Growth Stalls in Worst Year Since Crisis

Stalled Asset Growth, Tighter Revenue Margins, Volatile Markets, and Regulatory Requirements All Raise Pressure on Managers to Adopt Disruptive Capabilities in Leading-Edge Data and Analytics, BCG Report Says

DEUTSCHE BANK: Here's our plan to solve the European banking crisis

All of this has increased speculation that Italy could be the country to provoke the eventual collapse of the European Project.

UK Property: Risks and Mortar. James Klempster, Momentum Global Invesment Management

The very essence of multi-asset funds is to keep eggs in different baskets to ensure that investors are not overly exposed to risks

SWFs curb cross-border investments

Wealth funds and other public pension investors invested $73.2 bn in first half of 2015

UBS: Abject Failure or Purely Profit-Driven?

After its near-death experience in 2008, the world’s largest private bank has increasingly enforced pay-your-taxes-or-no-business-with-us rules

Mark Carney: no silver bullet to address Brexit woes as policymakers warn of buy-to-let slowdown

Speaking at the same hearing, Mr Sharp warned that buy-to-let lending was also likely to cool significantly in the wake of the Brexit vote

Estate for rich Chinese may cost The Hague millions: FD

The Hague city council may be poised to lose hundreds of millions of euros on a residential estate developed to lure rich Chinese people to the city, the Financieele Dagblad said on Tuesday. The problem has arisen because the justice ministry has decide

Credit Suisse Releases Mid-Year Hedge Fund Investor Sentiment Survey

Only 9% of investors said that they were not likely to reallocate redeemed capital to hedge funds.

Allocations to Alternative Asset Classes and ESG Set to Increase with Private Equity and Infrastructure to Receive Highest New Allocations

It also offers sophisticated strategy tagging, real time cash and liquidity tools and services all asset classes on one platform, including the most complex and structured products.

Global ETF assets growth not dragged down by regulation

Global ETF assets under management is expected to climb to $7trn (£5.4trn, €6.3trn) by 2021 facilitated by steady growth in the North American, European and Asian markets, a new PwC survey shows.

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