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Property values may be about to fall, but Derwent's demand remains high

Positive rental growth continues for the portfolio

Real estate: five tips on mortgage loans

Their advantage is that the debt only accrues as and when invoices for the building work are received.

Deutsche Bank adopts measures to further reduce its energy consumption

This is equivalent to the average annual consumption of around 1,600 two-person households.

Are family businesses more resilient?

While the share prices of family-owned businesses slumped by 23.7 percent during the first phase of Covid, companies without a family shareholder saw their share prices drop even more – by 30.7 percent.

Tentative dollar divergence, continued euro weakness

While acknowledging this tentative change in mood, we are not altering our broader dollar outlook for several reasons.

Why Indosuez CIO moved back into tech and increased duration

As the narrative is shifting from inflation to global recession fears, the investment team is leaning on long duration assets.

Quilter makes one-off cost-of-living payment to employees

Quilter wants to help employees mitigate the impact of price rises given the difficult economic backdrop, with inflation in the UK forecast by the Bank of England to top 11% later this year.

Q2 2022 Wayfarer Quarterly Commentary - WHIreland

Inflation continued its rampage across the western world, hitting 40-year highs in the UK and US and the highest level in Europe since the inception of the Euro.

Fitch Affirms Banque Pictet at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable

Stable and Diversified Business Model: Pictet is one of Switzerland's largest wealth managers, and its business model has performed well since the start of the pandemic.

Gap between earnings expectations and economic reality narrows

To these fears are now added the risk of a recession as central banks try to slow economies with higher borrowing costs.

England's elite hiding billions of inherited wealth

After calculating the expected flow of inherited wealth after 1920, and taking into account the impact of war and death taxes, he found that the declared wealth of certain elite families was significantly lower than expected.

Cost of living: People turning back to cash as prices rise

Post offices handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, the most since records began five years ago.

Guernsey increases trade with UK by more than 18%

Britain imported goods worth just under £1 billion during the same period to Guernsey.

Low Cost is not Low Price

“Just buy something for less than it’s worth.” - Warren Buffett in an address to the faculty of Notre Dame, 1991.

Just over half of councils have started making payments from £1.5bn pandemic fund

Businesses outside the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors were not allowed to appeal their payments for business rates and were promised fund from a £1.5bn support package instead

Slowdown or slump?

It is the savings (and borrowing) behavior of consumers that is likely to make the difference between a slowdown and a slump.

Can long short funds offer a port in a stock market storm?

Many traditional sources of diversification are struggling in the current tough market environment. Long short equity funds could offer an alternative.

Thousands of Credit Suisse Jobs Could be Under the Axe

Other measures are putting the bank's middle and back office inefficiencies under review and reshaping the investment bank.

BoE raises interest rates to 1.75%: what this means for borrowers and savers

At its meeting ending on 3 August 2022, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of 8-1 to increase Bank Rate by 0.5 percentage points, to 1.75%.

Whistleblowing quarterly data 2022 Q1

Our data shows the number of new whistleblowing reports we received between January and March 2022 and how the information was received.

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