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| Spooks recruit fund houses over cyber war |
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| UK government intelligence agents have held a series of meetings with large asset managers in an attempt to counter an increase in corporate crimes |
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| China Jiantou staff go fishing in London |
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| A large Chinese money manager has sent 23 executives to a business school to learn about the UK fund market, suggesting it plans to set up in Europe |
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| Asset managers invest in longevity |
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| Increases in life expectancy and personal wealth could be profitable for asset managers, says David Oakley, as people are likely to need more advice |
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| Strange gofo cry heralds trouble for gold |
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| It would be much better for the financial world if gold were just bumping along with only enough volatility to keep a few dealers' lights on |
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| Robeco is determined to be big in Japan |
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| CEO Roderick Munsters says Robeco and Orix are renewing a long tradition of cultural co-operation between their respective countries |
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| Pay-offs and perils of passive investing |
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| For all its imperfections, John Plender notes that passive investing offers better performance more cheaply than most active managers |
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| EU parliament 'betrays' retail investors |
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| Plans to improve protection for retail investors in Europe, so-called Prips regulation, are unravelling amid disagreements in the European parliament |
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| A clean conscience can turn a profit |
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| Ethical investment can deliver returns just as good, if not better, than investing in purely financial companies, new research suggests |
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| USS targets new asset classes |
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| One of the UK's largest pension funds, with £40bn of assets and which serves 300,000 academics and university staff, is creating a new investment arm |
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| Aberdeen crosses the frontier |
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| The asset manager has launched only the second frontier-market bond fund in the world, citing favourable growth dynamics and low levels of debt |
