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Rothschild Market Perspective: Impact of currency price movements: a blessing or a headache?

Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments, Rothschild Wealth Management, provides the business’s current position on markets.

TIM Group Announces Top Performing Brokerage Firms and Salespeople in Europe

TIM Group today reported results of the TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards 2012 for the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, identifying the best institutional equity salespeople and their brokerage firms in the combined region.

Coutts - Wealth Watch - Stock-market highs a downer for gold

Gold also remains more attractive than other traditional stores of value such as government bonds.

Ruffer: We’re on course for another financial crisis

FE Alpha Manager Steve Russell (pictured) and Hamish Baillie have had a good year, thanks largely to their overweight position in Japan

A year after the shareholder spring, the green shoots of rebellion are withering

About this time last year, Bob Diamond's pay package seemed to have triggered a new anger in investors. Looking back now, it seems the headlines were better than the reality

Former Barclays pay chief: I said no to bonus for Bob Diamond

'He's gone now so history tells me I was right': Bob Diamond, formerly of Barclays

Top 10 international boarding schools in the world

For students who already have the English skills, top boarding schools provide an international perspective that they won’t encounter anywhere else.

Sovereign wealth funds are about to get wealthier

Sovereign wealth funds are predicted to grow by $1 billion a day this year, according to a new report.

China, Gold, Banks & a Comet by Justin Urquhart Stewart

I have some serious concerns about both private and public Chinese property and some of the infrastructure as well.

Anatomy of a failure

EUROCRATS used to annoy the British by telling them their country was bound one day to join the euro

Barings Bank rogue comes clean

Rogue trader Nick Leeson knows all about crime and punishment

Split RBS into good and bad banks, says Bank of England governor

Mervyn King says current situation 'nonsense' as he lays bare his disagreement with George Osborne over RBS's future

“Back to the Old House” by Nick Mottram, Head of Global Equities, Dalton Strategic Partnership

When Morrissey first wrote the lyrics “I would rather not go back to the old house, there’s too many bad memories there” in 1983, I doubt he imagined them capturing the feelings of investors and politicians thirty years later.

Properties sales under the microscope by Mike Down

As HMRC launches yet another disclosure campaign, we ask whether it’s beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day?

Coutts Wealth Watch: It's only halftime, with Bank Rate to stay at 0.5% for four more years

Four years on they remain at historic lows – and there’s no sign they will rise any day soon.

Op-Ed: Can Islamic Finance save us from the Banksters?

It was reported that the banks were lending less, in spite of all the promises by Vince Cable and others of funding for lending and yet more Quantitative Easing.

Global Markets Weekly Outlook - Coutts & Co

US economic surprises have swung back to positive, bucking the weaker trend that continues to mar most other developed markets.

Double whammy for owners of foreign homes

With only five weeks left before the end of the tax year, it’s time to see if you could be making better use of personal and business allowances to minimise your tax liability. Plus a reduction in the top rate of tax is introduced from the 6 April &

Latin Economy & Latin Terminology by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Voting in Italy. About the only clear vote we are going to get this year in Italy is likely to be the selection of the new Pope and, whilst he will be a powerful man, he won’t be able to solve Italy’s financial issues.

Shifting gears across the Atlantic - BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Recession seems to be loosening its grip on Europe, but the ongoing stabilization is unlikely to make room for growth.

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