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China will support commodity prices despite slowdown

Fears that support for commodity prices from China is waning as the pace of the country’s infrastructure development in its cities slows are unfounded,...

Henderson appoints Benelux sales head

Henderson Global Investors has appointed Joost Wijstma as director of institutional business for Benelux. He will be based in Amsterdam. Wijstma will report to David...

Citi migration complete by year-end

Citi expects to have all its hedge fund administration clients on a newly launched global operating platform by the end of the year, the...

Hedge funds warn of European divergence

A hedge fund trade body has warned that proposed European regulations diverge too far from measures set by the G20 to regulate alternative fund...

Bring me sunshine

I write to you this week from Dresden, a city where the tides of history do veritably converge. From my hotel window I can...

Changes

"There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction," Winston Churchill, once said. For the German private bank Sal. Oppenheim,...

How to be Swedish

We've all heard it a million times, demographic changes threaten the comfortable retirement we, as a society, have become used to in Europe, but...

Experience talks in Africa and the Middle East

Barings Asset Management has become the latest fund management company to identify significant investment potential in North Africa and the Middle East. "In Barings'...

Norwegian sovereign wealth funds speaks of future plans

Norwegian sovereign wealth fund speaks of future plans Government Pension Fund – Global, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, is due to appoint more managers within...

EFAMA calls for greater financial literacy

De Franssu feels industry would need the support of national governments or Europe to introduce educational programmes... Industry leaders in European asset management are to...

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