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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

Will consolidation in the DFM space continue?

The discretionary space is becoming more competitive in an environment where client demands are high.

The Web at 25 - Rothschild Wealth Management

The impact of the internet on business and the investing landscape - and the perils of forecasting

EU Investors Need Better Places for Savings, Asset Managers Say

Household investors need better places to put their savings to work and to backstop the economy

Fund managers becoming too focused on short term

The asset management industry is at risk of becoming too focused on short-term performance

Jupiter CEO backs Scottish business regardless of referendum

Jupiter Fund Management Chief Executive Maarten Slendebroek said his firm's Scottish business would prosper regardless of the outcome of a September referendum on breaking away from the UK.

Changing times for the UK Non-Domiciled Art Collector

Roundtable hosted by Sotheby's and Stonehage

Morning Coffee: The only people with safe jobs at Deutsche. Hiring, firing at BofA

So, who’s safe at Deutsche Bank?

Citi’s Budapest Chief Executive: Eyes On The Bright Side

We are not aware of any client exiting the market as a direct consequence of the tax environment

Vatican bank 'will no longer threaten Church reputation'

Pope's Economy Council chief says 'true bank' will be elsewhere

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