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  • Queen among UK elite investing in offshore funds

    Queen among UK elite investing in offshore funds

    The scale of tax avoidance by the UK’s wealthiest is under the spotlight once again after leaked documents revealed even the Queen holds millions of pounds of assets in offshore funds.

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  • Trump nominates Powell as Fed chair

    Trump nominates Powell as Fed chair

    Jerome ‘Jay’ Powell will replace Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve.

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  • Kames’ Snowden: Why you should not wait for market dip

    Kames’ Snowden: Why you should not wait for market dip

    Big macro calls on asset allocation could be a fool’s errand as the UK economy and markets enter a prolonged period of stability, according to Kames’ Stephen Snowden.

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  • Beware of Aim’s ‘AbFab’ stocks

    Beware of Aim’s ‘AbFab’ stocks

    Hawksmoor Investment Management is warning against investing in the Alternative Investment Market’s (Aim) five largest companies, which it has dubbed the ‘AbFab’ stocks.

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  • UK investors bullish on returns over next five years

    UK investors bullish on returns over next five years

    Despite adopting a cautious approach to risk, UK investors expect to generate an average 8.7% return on investments over the next five years, according to the Schroders Global Investor Study.

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  • ‘Do or die’: Asset managers urged to embrace tech

    ‘Do or die’: Asset managers urged to embrace tech

    Asset managers must embrace technological developments that will drive exponential change in the industry or risk missing out on growth, according to a PwC report.

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  • BoE: Brexit will cost 75,000 finance jobs

    BoE: Brexit will cost 75,000 finance jobs

    Up to 75,000 jobs in financial services could be lost in post-Brexit upheaval, the Bank of England believes.

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  • Why blue-chip investing is a dying trade

    Why blue-chip investing is a dying trade

    Investing in blue-chip companies is a dying trade as they are most at risk from disruptive market forces, according to equity managers at Hermes and Kames.

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  • Hammond’s budget surplus dream in tatters after IFS kick

    Hammond’s budget surplus dream in tatters after IFS kick

    Philip Hammond needs to admit his promise to eradicate the UK’s budget deficit by the mid-2020s is “no longer sensible”, a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.

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  • No surprises from Draghi: ECB halves asset purchases to €30bn

    No surprises from Draghi: ECB halves asset purchases to €30bn

    Bond and equity markets were left unmoved after ECB-president Mario Draghi announced on Thursday that the ECB will cut the size of its monthly asset purchases in half from January next year.

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  • What to expect from ECB meeting

    What to expect from ECB meeting

    Asset managers expect a hawkish move by Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank’s (ECB) board meeting today.

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  • Improving UK GDP increases chances of rate rise

    Improving UK GDP increases chances of rate rise

    The pace of UK economic growth beat expectations in the third quarter of the year, further increasing the chance of an interest rate rise next week.

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