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2014 Alternative Investment Outlook - Championing Growth

Deloitte's Center for Financial Services recently published its 2014 outlook for alternative investment managers.

If People Prefer How Women Lead, Why Aren't There More Women in Leadership Positions? - Pershing Study

Pershing has released a new study titled, Americans Crave a New Kind of Leader—And Women Are Ready to Deliver, which presents a conflicting but positive outlook on the changing role of women.

Down but Not Out

Europe's ETF Market is Staging a Comeback

Law Society launches new brochure on Islamic finance

This kind of finance has developed rapidly and nearly £12bn of reported assets held in Shari’a compliant funds, there is little doubt that the UK is the leading Western centre for Islamic Finance.

Population of ultra-wealthy Chinese to surpass Japanese by 2026: report

We’re seeing a rise in the high-end of wealth in the rest of the world

Challenges to Long-Term Asset Allocation and Risk Management in Real Estate Investments - RESEARCH

The report, titled "Long-Run Investment Ambitions and Short-Run Investment Processes," finds long-term asset management challenges and increasing risk management in real estate investments.

Fixed Income Attribution - Expert Round up

The answers submitted by The Spaulding Group are combined from David Spaulding, Jed Schneider, John Simpson

RepRisk releases Special Report on MINT Countries

After Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym “BRIC” to refer to top emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India and China, he has now popularized “MINT” – Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey as a second category.

Financial wealth in Asia more than tripled since 2001: HSBC

Financial wealth in Asia has more than tripled since 2001 to over USD 80 trillion and if the current trend persists the growth will be even faster in India than in China.

How much money do UAE bankers make, and how does your salary compare?

Salaries for 2014 show 1.5 to 6% increase, depending on role

Optimizing Operating Models in Wealth Management - Boston Consulting

Wealth managers face numerous challenges in their efforts to drive profitable growth. Increasingly demanding clients, rising business complexity and costs, and difficult macroeconomic conditions are all taking a toll.

Fund managers optimistic about 2014 - Towers Watson

Although expectations for government bond yields continue to be near historic lows and concerns about low growth persist.

Global assets under management to exceed $100 trillion by 2020: PwC

Global assets under management (AuM) will rise to around $101.7 trillion by 2020, from a 2012 total of $63.9 trillion, says a PwC report released today. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 6%.

Women overtake men for first time in financial jobs race

Women are starting to outnumber men in the race for jobs in the financial sector.

Cerulli Expects IRA Market Will Account for 35% of Total Retirement Market Assets by 2018

"The lack of widespread use of in-plan retirement income solutions means assets accumulating in a defined contribution (DC) plan will eventually shift to an IRA," states Bing Waldert, director at Cerulli.

AIC: UK most favoured among the high net worth

Some 33% of investors plan to make no changes to their portfolio, whilst 7% plan to decrease their stockmarket investments.

Corporate Earnings: Crises as Big Turning Points - Market comment, LGT

Relative to emerging market corporate earnings, profits of developed market companies stabilized shortly after the last financial crisis – and have been consistently catching up since late 2010.

Hedge Funds Start 2014 in the Red

According to Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst, hedge funds made a loss of 0.17% in January 2014, the benchmark’s first month in negative territory since August 2013.

IFG Islamic finance 2014 outlook survey: Hopes of a transitory slowdown in growth

Survey respondents expect Islamic finance assets growth to slow in 2014, but the slowdown that respondents predicted could perhaps be more transitory after several years of vigorous growth following the financial crisis rather than an indication that the

Understanding AIFMD and Gaining a Passport to the European Market - SEI

The possible structuring options and associated costs ► Practical tax and legal considerations

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