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Concerns of Overvaluation in Both Equity and Bond Markets - RESEARCH

Bonds Seen as Most Overvalued in Survey’s History

Deutsche Bank Names the Best Place for a Cheap Date

For some individual products, disparities in price are enormous

The Risks and Costs of an Ineffective Middle-Office

When assessing the various risks that might affect investment firms, fund managers and investors often overlook an element that can lead to failure if neglected: an ineffective middle-office.

Italy leads as fund sales rise

The UK saw the largest outflows, at €1.8 billion, followed by Netherlands and Denmark.

Are we Overheating Yet? How can we tell? by Justin Urquhart Stewart

the rear view mirror and to try and see if the last problem is about to repeat itself - again.

Passive way to invest in property

How investors can get exposure to real estate through passive products.

‘Dull work, flat pay and lousy colleagues’

Global survey finds deep frustrations at heart of financial services

Radical Change Needed To Close Hedge Funds Gender Gap

The research, which is sourced from Preqin’s online databases, found that women in C-level positions at single-manager hedge funds are 11.2% of the total headcount in Asia

Equities, oil 'best asset classes for 2015'

Equities will be the best-performing asset class in the next 12 months according to 51 per cent of high net worth investors in Europe, while a fifth (18 per cent) said oil could outperform in 2015, according to a report.

Investment fund assets reach all-time high

This was on the back of positive net sales recorded in the US

Behind Bank Valuations Lies Distaste for Investment Banking

Investors may be overvaluing some lenders with simpler business models

Quarter of European sovereign bonds yielding negative returns

A quarter of Eurozone sovereign bonds were yielding negative returns in March after the European Central Bank began its €1.1trn (£80bn) quantitative easing programme

Corporate cash cows drive out investment bulls

Concern grows at lack of corporate capital expenditure in QE era

Do-It-Yourself Investment Culture Takes Steady Upward Path

In the United Kingdom retail direct-to-consumer (D2C) and D2C platform distribution is on the rise, and the rest of Europe will follow in the long term

Winners and Losers of European Quantitative Easing

Standard Life Investments looks at how different asset classes, economies and global markets are adapting and behaving since the ECB’s announcement of €60bn of bond purchases a month until autumn 2016.

Finland's richest 1% own growing share of net wealth

The richest one per cent of households own a growing share of all net wealth in Finland

Law firms report strong year, according to survey

As in previous years, participants provided two years' data - the most recent accounting period and the previous one

Europe is the world’s most attractive hotel investment destination

The Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) hotel investment market is set for another bumper year, strong returns, fair value and more debt help to put Europe at the top of international hotel investors’ wish list.

The resurgence of the European hedge fund industry

When we wrote about the European hedge fund industry a year ago, we described several long-term trends that had emerged recently and were contributing to the reshaping of our industry1.

Which degree will get you a high paying investment banking job?

11% of IB directors have maths and statistics degrees and 10% are engineering graduates.

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