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Don't be April Fooled by Justin Urquhart Stewart

The UK consumer is a powerful part of the UK economy.

Property Taxes – Over extended? by Baker Tilly

Last week’s Budget introduced three phased changes for properties bought by a company or an arrangement that includes a company.

Barclays Showdown With Investors Looms as Jenkins Targets Recede

Antony Jenkins replaced Robert Diamond as Barclays Plc chief executive officer 19 months ago, pledging to control costs at the investment bank and boost returns.

Barclays report reveals surge in growth at Midland firms

Paul Keiser, regional director of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in the Midlands, said: “The findings in this edition of the Entrepreneurs Index confirm that the economic recovery in the Midlands is gathering pace.

Investment Strategy for 2014 by Guy Wagner, chief investment officer, Banque de Luxembourg

The core aspects of our investment strategy for 2014 have seen little change in the first few months of the year.

Our Risk Outlook 2014 - FCA

View our video to find out more about how we assess risk and why.

Economics - No pain no gain for eurozone banks - Couuts

Financial fragmentation remains a problem in the eurozone – Spanish businesses face borrowing costs close to 5% while French counterparts can borrow at 2%.

Asset managers report improving business conditions

Asset management business continued to improve in the opening three months of 2014 with optimism growing for the ninth consecutive quarter

Carmignac's brand value falls in selector survey

The Paris-based manager, famous for products such as its Patrimoine fund, fell from second last year to seventh in this year's Fund Brand 50 report, which is based on interviews with 920 fund selectors.

Regulation Again Tops List of Asset Manager Concerns

Regulatory change projects are the main priority for 93% of asset managers polled by investment consultancy Investit at a conference in London.

Global Markets Overview - March 2014 - Towers Watson

No discernible overall trend in global asset markets.

Bank of Cyprus CEO says ‘bad bank’ plan “too early”

Plans to split Bank of Cyprus into a ‘good bank’ with core operations and a ‘bad bank’ with all its liabilities, as suggested by advisors HSBC, are not a priority, with the main issue at present being the restructure of the island&

Sovereign funds wary of hidden emerging market exposure: Templeton

Sovereign wealth funds see emerging market turbulence as a long term buying opportunity, but are wary of excessive exposure via some of their Western holdings such as luxury goods makers

Global investor confidence drops in March, index says

Global investor confidence fell by 2.5 points in March to 120.2 with the decrease primarily driven by European institutional investors

London loses top spot

The Global Financial Center Index, released last week, showed that New York had supplanted London as the world's premier financial center, albeit by a tiny margin of two points out of 1,000.

Fund managers see hard currency as key to growth in 2014

Managers of bond funds are pessimistic about sovereign debt and optimistic about high-yield bonds and view rising interest rates as a threat in 2014.

Partying like it was 1999 by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Well not really - but more like 1998 possibly? The bellowing eagerness of an enthusiastic bull market of 1999 was something to behold, when dot com concepts and barely born businesses were given ridiculous valuations.

London luxury home market likely to fall

Lloyds Banking Group plans to avoid funding the development of projects in London's luxury home market, where it sees losses ahead for investors

Britain may rue the day it killed on investment banks

Barclays is the latest British lender to review its investment banking arm. We look at the repercussions for the economy

"Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of trumpets," Lord Nathan Rothschild said in 1810

Russian funds back in the game

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