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Continuity with a hope of more certainty - Coutts

We are increasingly likely to suggest that investors use the weakness in the markets as a buying opportunity for risk assets.

You Can Take The Dragon Out Of The Business - But You Can't Take Business Out Of The Dragon - RESEARCH

59% say it is hard to walk away entirely from being involved with business

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

Is "pay for performance" losing its allure? What do you think?

The BNP Paribas group in Luxembourg promotes diversity and equal opportunity

The plan recently received Actions Positives accreditation

Multinational taxation: the wisdom of the crowd or the madness of the mob? by George Bull and Kevin Phillips

Companies such as Starbucks, Facebook, Google and Apple appear to be paying relatively little UK corporation tax.

5.5m people could become financial advice ‘orphans’ following Retail Distribution Review - RESEARCH

Research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm, indicates that up to 5.5m people could fall into the financial advice gap after the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Female bosses get bonuses worth half as much as men, CMI warns

Female executives receive bonuses worth less than half those of their male counterparts, a new study has revealed, shedding light on the gender pay gap.

Ten Trends Transforming the European Financial Services Industry - RESEARCH

The eurozone remains under intense economic pressure; however, European countries outside of the developed EU economies are growing and are looking for ways to attract international capital.

Glimmers of hope on the economy - Arbuthnot Banking Group

In this Perspective Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, takes stock of the latest economic indicators and previews this week’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.

Fame and Fortune: Stay calm and Europe will pay off

Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe, the French wealth manager to the super-rich, is thinking long term with tips on equities — and wine

A man whom the world's wealthy trust

An asset manager and trainer with London-based Eureka Financial, has been a trusted attendant to some of the most private conversations of wealthy family businesses around the world.

Meet the Most Indebted Man in the World

Former Société Générale rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel owes the bank $6.3 billion. Here's what his case tells us about financial reform.

“Thorn in My Side” - View from Psigma

As we wrote in October’s newsletter, financial markets appear to be in a state of “limbo”, following a power-packed summer that improved a first half of meagre returns into something much healthier.

“Politics paramount” - Coutts

The markets enter a testing week with major political uncertainty in two of the largest economies of the world.

London Frets Future as Financial Hub Outside Bank Union

London’s attempt to maintain its financial muscle while boycotting Europe’s move toward a banking union risks isolating the city from its major trading partners and undermining its status as the world’s top money center.

Britain's banks should be our national wealth fund

There are not many leaders of a large public company who would openly say their largest investor might want to put their money somewhere else, but among them are the chief executives of Britain's taxpayer backed banks, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal

Politicians inflict damage through tax uncertainty by George Bull

HMRC has announced it will be moving data currently held on servers within local tax offices to ‘cloud’ storage.

Banks threatened to quit UK

Taylor said that keeping both parts of a bank within a group structure would also enable the investment banking arm to rescue the high street division if it got into financial difficulties.

"The current climate remains an attractive one for Gold investors" - Berry Asset Management

Today many investors hold more faith in the dollar or the Swiss franc….. or if they are diehards perhaps, sterling or the Euro…. than they do gold.

Currency “wars” and the potential impacts of developed market QE - Threadneedle

Investors should expect greater volatility in foreign exchange markets as the 'beggar thy neighbour' approach of quantitative easing across the developed world triggers economic, political and social consequences for developing economies.

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