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  • Lombard Odier hires Coutts head to lead UK

    Lombard Odier hires Coutts head to lead UK

    Lombard Odier has poached Duncan MacIntyre from Coutts & Co to become chief executive officer of its private client business in the UK.

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  • Rise of passives risks diminishing shareholder influence

    Rise of passives risks diminishing shareholder influence

    Three-fifths of UK and European institutional investors expect the rise of passive investment vehicles to have a negative impact on shareholder engagement, reported the latest paper in the Hermes Investment Management Responsible Capitalism survey.

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  • PA ANALYSIS: 'Dead' platforms need to reform to survive

    PA ANALYSIS: ‘Dead’ platforms need to reform to survive

    Platforms have not yet lived up to their potential to be genuinely transformative for advisers, finds a new report from the Lang Cat. It says the promise to make the delivery of advice more efficient and responsive has, at best, been only partially fulfilled.

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  • McDermott hints at softer regulatory touch

    McDermott hints at softer regulatory touch

    Tracey McDermott, acting chief executive at the Financial Conduct Authority hinted at lighter touch regulation in future, suggesting the current volume was unsustainable.

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  • Marty McFly should have tried investment trusts

    Marty McFly should have tried investment trusts

    Rather than messing about on skateboards, Marty McFly should have bought the Capital Gearing Trust when he travelled in time from 26th October 1985, according to JP Morgan Cazenove research.

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  • PA ANALYSIS: A good day for Eurozone investors?

    PA ANALYSIS: A good day for Eurozone investors?

    Mario Draghi sounded a sombre note at today’s European Central Bank meeting, suggesting lack of structural reform and pressure from emerging market weakness were holding back the Eurozone recovery.

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  • Rathbones weathers turbulent markets

    Rathbones weathers turbulent markets

    Rathbone Brothers saw a small fall in assets under management in the three months to 30 September, but this was less than the wider fall in equity markets as the group continued to see inflows.

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  • Henderson expands global property team

    Henderson expands global property team

    Henderson Global Investors has expanded its global property equities team with the addition of a dedicated North American property equities team.

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  • End of sunset clause to bring pressure, argues Nucleus

    End of sunset clause to bring pressure, argues Nucleus

    The expiry of the ‘sunset’ clause will bring pressures for advisers, but asset managers may come under particular strain, argues a new white paper from platform Nucleus.

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  • CBI members back EU membership

    CBI members back EU membership

    The CBI says that there would be ‘serious downsides’ for UK businesses were the country to leave the EU.

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  • Structured products beat FTSE 100 return

    Structured products beat FTSE 100 return

    The most recent 1000 capital-at-risk structured products to mature made an average annualised return of over 8% and every one delivered as per the stated terms, according to figures from Lowes Financial Management.

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  • Markets too gloomy on inflation, argue asset allocators

    Markets too gloomy on inflation, argue asset allocators

    Stock and bond markets are in danger of extrapolating too gloomy a scenario from recent central bank statements, the situation in China and manufacturing data, argue asset allocators.

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