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Turning Japanese

The problems being created in Europe by an ageing society are well documented. Could the solution to the problem be found in the world's...

Back to the core as competition heats up

Distance provides perspective, and so it is that the further we travel away from the 2008 global financial crisis, the better we are able...

No blues on the Danube

Anyone who has ever visited Budapest will know that the Danube flows not blue there, as promised in song, but muddy brown. A market...

SGSS links with US Bancorp to form alliance with global reach

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has just completed a commercial alliance with US Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) under the name of Global Securities Services...

Muysken for new Mercer alternatives role

Investment consultancy Mercer appointed Bill Muysken to the newly created role of chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies within its investment management business. As...

Money markets funds adjusted to eliminate exposure

European and US fund managers running money market funds have actively adjusted their investment strategies to eliminate their exposure to the continued fiscal and...

Martin Currie fills ‘obvious gap’

Martin Currie Investment Management, a Scottish-based fund manager, has agreed to acquire the Sofaer Capital European long/short equity business. Sofaer Capital currently manages approximately...

Dutch regulator berates pension funds

The Dutch central bank and pensions regulator (DNB) will be keeping a closer eye on pension funds, as a survey found that many pension...

Safe as … emerging markets

European investors, according to Lipper FMI's monthly statistical reality check released Monday 14 June, are flocking into bonds just as they did in 2005....

Out of Africa

The spotlight trained on the world's least invested-in continent is beginning to shine as brightly as its sun, and last week management consultancy heavyweights,...

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