China forex reserves break 8-month run of declines
China’s foreign exchange reserves rose in February, surprising analysts by breaking an eight-month string of declines and offering the latest evidence that a stable renminbi and tighter capital...
View ArticleIan Cowie joins Citywire as trust champion!
Citywire is delighted to make an exciting double announcement regarding its coverage of investment trusts and investment companies. This Thursday will see us launch the new Investment Trust Insider...
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Watchdog warns over Lifetime Isa exit charges
The City watchdog has warned that people opening a new individual savings account may not be able to afford the controversial exit charges. The Lifetime Isa, available to those aged between 18 and 40...
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UK groups face challenge to cope with sterling risk
Will Rylance was enjoying 2016. Velusso, his cycling holiday business which persuades mainly British-based velo-junkies to part with about £2,000 for an upmarket long weekend of riding with an ex-pro...
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Irish pension funds push into mortgage lending
Irish pension funds will for the first time push into mortgage lending this year, as the combination of low yields and pressure on banks continues to reshape markets. A non-bank lender in Ireland, The...
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The Expert View: Paddy Power Betfair, Direct Line & Ashtead
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Alarm raised on Turkey’s drift to authoritarianism
Turkey risks sliding towards “an authoritarian and personal regime” under a constitutional overhaul proposed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president, in the wake of a failed military coup, Europe’s...
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Stocks soft after release of China data
Wednesday 06:00 GMT Overview Markets across Asia mostly fell back, while the Chinese currency dropped after the release of February data showed a trade deficit in renminbi terms for the first time...
View ArticleTrump should think again on mining transparency law
One of the few laws signed by President Trump has eliminated a critical anti-corruption rule that improved transparency in the opaque natural resources sector. It was a gift to kleptocrats around the...
View ArticlePound under renewed pressure ahead of Budget
The pound has come under pressure ahead of chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget, marking new seven-week lows against the dollar and on course for its eighth daily fall in the last nine trading days....
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Adviser Profile: Olivia Bowen of Castlefield
Ethical investments do not always get taken seriously as a profitable strategy, but Castlefield’s Olivia Bowen is determined to help clients who would prefer not to swim in shark-infested waters....
View ArticleTechnology outsmarts the human investor
To grasp why Standard Life agreed to buy Aberdeen Asset Management for £3.8bn this week, it helps to recall an experiment at the Oregon Research Institute in the 1960s, that rated how gooddoctors were...
View ArticleThe opportunity in refugee finance
March 8, 2017 by: Gary Kleiman, Kleiman International Consultants As the World Bank and other official lenders promote financial inclusion in development programmes, specific payment and borrowing...
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EU struggles for credibility in western Balkans
When the EU’s foreign policy chief addressed Serbia’s parliament last week, she planned an upbeat message to a country whose leader says joining the 28-nation bloc is his top priority. Instead,...
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Funds adopt novel methods to find new tech talent
Graphic novels, coding competitions, mammoth pay packets and even entire university research centres are just some of the tactics hedge funds are turning to as they seek to win an intensifying war for...
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The Expert View: Legal & General, Foxtons and Aggreko
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Nigeria’s rice farmers enjoy growth amid crisis
Young men, ageing widows and local chiefs — even civil servants — have taken to the fields to work in rice paddies that stretch for miles around Tarasa, a village in north-west Nigeria. Two years ago...
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Standard Life Investments equity boss Cumming exits
Standard Life Investments’ (SLI) head of equities David Cumming has left the business. The announcement comes just days after it was announced that SLI’s parent company will merge with Aberdeen Asset...
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Euro steady, stocks soft ahead of ECB decision
Thursday 08:40 GMT Overview The euro is a touch firmer and Bund yields are trundling higher with Treasuries as traders await the latest monetary policy decision by the European Central Bank. Oil...
View ArticleChina lawyers play down doubts on Trump trademarks
Donald Trump has basketball star Michael Jordan to thank for securing trademarks in China, legal experts in the country said on Thursday, as they played down concerns that Beijing’s decision...
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