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Investors Turning to Cash as Geopolitics and Interest Rate Rise Fears Bite

Europe Bears Brunt of Falling Sentiment but Emerging Markets Thrive

London Banks Award New Hires 20% More Pay in July

Firms in London’s main financial district, known as the City, awarded new hires with an average pay increase of 20 percent in July as companies added employees in product control and information technology

RBC tops table of infrastructure deal advisers

The ranking, the first prepared by Mergermarket product InfraDeals, aims to capture deals in the energy, transport and social-infrastructure sectors whose steady inflation-linked revenues are favoured by institutional buyers.

UK equities favoured by wealth managers

If enough investors believe in this thesis, it will undoubtedly become self-fulfilling as the herd stampedes for the exit

Pensions in flux boost asset managers

According to FTfm’s 11th annual survey of asset managers, the UK pension fund assets of the top 20 investment houses active in the market rose 8.5 per cent to £1.2tn in 2013

How investment funds survived the First World War

There were 90 investment trusts at the outbreak of war; some managed to increase dividends - and you can still invest today

Sovereign wealth funds embark on global spending spree

The new figure represents a vote of confidence by the SWFs in the global economic recovery, which has gradually gathered momentum since the crisis.

ETFGIs analysis finds ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered a record US$160.5 billion in net new assets through the end of July 2014

Assets declined slightly from their record high of US2.64 Tn in June to US2.62 Tn at the end of July.

Alternative investments to grab up to 40 pct of revenues by 2020

Alternatives that are marketed to mom-and-pop investors will remain red-hot

Luxury property prices rising in key global cities

A number of key European markets are at the bottom of the index table

Which European Universities Open Doors in Fund Management?

Parents based in continental Europe who want their children to have a career in finance had better send them across the English Channel, data has shown.

FX research consultancy opens London office

Professional consultancy within FX, CFD and spread betting companies gains ground as Investment Trends establishes in London following great demand from Europe and North America

London has bigger collection of millionaires than any other city in the world

One in every 35 people in London - equivalent to 395,600 people - now own assets worth more than $1million (£590,000), according to a wealth consultancy

UK Pensions Get Trigger Happy

An increasing number of the largest public companies in the UK are employing triggers to reduce risk when a certain funding level is reached on their pension funds, research has found.

Trusts enjoy boost in platform sales

Are platforms the new access route to investment trusts?

The beneficial role of offshore centres by Jersey Finance

Jersey Finance has engaged with two leading US academics, Richard Gordon and Andrew Morriss, who have produced an independent assessment of the validity of some of the most prominent arguments surrounding the use of international financial centres, titled

Jersey Foundation structure shows strength in its fifth anniversary

High standards of regulation and quality of governance oversight are the key drivers behind a marked rise in the number of Foundation structures being formed in Jersey as the structure marked its fifth anniversary last month, according to Jersey Finance.

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