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EU buyouts: Finding a way to exit the boom year deals - Charles Magnay, Altius Associates

Many of the headline-hitting buyouts of the boom era are still sitting in private equity portfolios.

Investment managers worldwide will grow less than 1% - RESEARCH

As a result, many asset managers, including some of today’s market share leaders, may struggle with shrinking revenue and a decaying book of legacy business

BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Strong Sentiment Consolidating

Equity allocations stay high but bias shifts to defensives

The AIFMD and its Impact on US Fund Managers - Withers

The aim of the AIFMD is to introduce a harmonized regulatory framework across the EU for EU-established AIFMs and to regulate the marketing of AlFs within the EU.

Rothschild Market Perspective - Dirk Wiedmann, Head of Investments

This month, alongside our usual economic and market reviews, we cover four topics.

Global perspective from Standard Life Investments

Standard Life Investments suggests that it is much harder for countries to make the transition from emerging to developed economies than was previously commonly thought.

Shocking figures reveal the growth in UK's wealth gap

Inequality has grown sharply over the past 15 years

When big is no longer beautiful in the fund management world

Can a fund get too large for its fund manager to handle?

The Ghost of ABN Amro Haunts Europe's Banks

The $98.5 billion takeover of ABN proved to be a disastrously mis-timed acquisition, defining the M&A peak of the credit bubble in 2007.

Practicality trumps personality in the language of banks - RESEARCH

Personality is crucial in attracting customers

The Chinese Snake needs to wisely manage a rapidly changing world by Justin Urquhart Stewart

It’s going to be a delicate new year for the Chinese authorities and they may well need all the guile of “the water snake” to see them through it.

Perspectives from the Sarasin Group: On liberty, debt and overregulation

Three regulatory deficiencies were leading contributing causes of the financial crisis

What’s next for global capex? - BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Timely indicators have been brightening up, painting a picture of strengthening global investment spending in the short term.

Scandinavian corporate profits to rise 10% in 2013

"We have good reason to view the prospects for our Scandinavia Portfolio with optimism."

Banks Need to Reduce Risk: Sallie Krawchek

Krawcheck said that the problem was not being addressed

Coutts - Wealth Watch - Politics spook European bonds...again

The spectre of political risk has returned to European bond markets as scandal embroils the Spanish government and anti-reform sentiment grows in Italy.

Harrison's move to Schroders sparks succession speculation

But the advent of an experienced executive in a senior role at Schroders, shortly after chief executive Michael Dobson passed his 11th anniversary in the job in October, has sparked talk about succession.

HMRC ‘connects’ to clever technology

HMRC has said it will be spending February looking to identify more people whose income and wealth does not match – and they’ve got some snazzy new technology to help them too….

Lafferty report reveals high levels of Greek household exposure

The worsening position of Greek households is also reflected in negative net deposit flows. In the first nine months of 2012 these increased a further 40 percent compared to the position in the previous year.

Reasonable behaviour? by Mike Fleming, Straughans

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world”, said George Bernard Shaw.

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