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SunGard identifies ten trends influencing the banking industry

A focus of investment for banks is on ensuring regulatory compliance and in assuring shareholders that they fully understand and can manage their risk exposures.

Recovery shifts up a gear, but bumps in the road lie ahead -Coutts & Co

The market rally is likely to grind higher on mounting evidence that the US is reasserting itself as an engine of world economic growth. Indeed, the world has moved closer towards the upper end of our base-case economic scenario. But while the rally is wa

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Gilts supported by investor-friendly UK budget - Coutts

Gilt yields were broadly unchanged after the fiscally neutral UK budget kept to the planned course of cutting the deficit and stabilising the national debt over the course of the current parliament.

May 7th at dawn - Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild

Hesitating between new-found confidence and resurgent doubts, Patrick Ségal, former member of the Executive Comittee, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the global economy. He doesn't mince his words in his comments on France

Britain lags behind BRICs in African race, warns former Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo

Britain is being overtaken by emerging economies, such as India and Brazil in the “race” for a share of Africa’s new and fast-growing markets, according to Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria and leader of its ruling party

Are Fashion Fads Fading Faster? by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Have you noticed how the speed of corporate ageing seems to have been rising exponentially - corporate histories seem to have an ageing process worthy of various characters out of a Rider Haggard ripping yarn.

Strategies for Growth by George Bull, Baker Tilly

It seems that economic strategy has shifted from fostering growth to shoring up government finances.

Back to 1952 - Coutts & Co

Does it make sense for longer-term investors to hold government bonds when better yields are available from dividends?

State Street Global Advisors cautions on gold bubble bursting

The forecast comes from SSGA's Chris Goolgasian, whom we followed last week as he tackled the difficult subject of how to value gold.

We are richer in 2012, but are we happier?

The research claims that even though Britons are three times richer than they were in 1952, and UK GDP has dramatically increased, so has the Government's budget deficit.

First steps towards a wealth tax? by George Bull

Here’s the big irony: if a mansion tax is to be sustainable year by year rather than simply bleeding a section of society, then it has to rely on continuing economic growth.

The Unconventional Becomes Conventional

Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, believes that a lengthy period of Quantitative Easing (QE) is needed to support economies through years of fiscal tightening and debt de-leveraging.

Euro treads water, at the deep end - Coutts & Co

We believe the potential for negative events in Europe will keep the euro on the defensive against the dollar and sterling, but the downside looks limited in the near term given investors in general are already broadly holding negative positions.

Will there be a British Business Bank?

So what is the state of play on the government's ambition to correct the perceived lack of credit for small and medium-sized businesses?

Ten reasons to give ethical investment the green light

it’s becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money.

THE USA – IN STAR TREK SPEAK “IT’S A RECOVERY JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT”

Well we shouldn't complain

HMRC pushes back

Following breaches in the Banking Code of Practice on Taxation, retrospective tax legislation is to be introduced.

The growth figures may be insipid, the headlines may seem dour...

There are some positive dots that we can join together when looking at the UK economy, which when viewed as a connected string, is beginning to show a slightly more creditable and credible pattern.

Signs of opportunity among the wreckage of European equities - Coutts

Although we remain cautious regarding exposure to European equities in general, selective opportunities may be emerging, as long as global central banks maintain the easy- money stance that is helping to fuel appetite for risk.

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