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Bear Markets – There is Light “Before“ the End of the Tunnel

July 25, 2022

The headline indices missed running into the bear market territory by a small margin, and the mid-cap index officially entered the bear market territory before bouncing back.

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The Puritan Gift

July 25, 2022

With trillions of government debt around the world having recently traded on a negative yield, and with deposit rates still at zero or negative across the euro zone, the “new normal” increasingly feels like a 1930s-style

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The best landed estate lawyers for high-net-worth individuals in 2022

July 22, 2022

In our current economic climate agriculture alone is rarely the most efficient way to run a large parcel of land.

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Northern Trust Survey: Asset Managers Take a Closer Look at New Ways of Operating to Create Efficiency and Control Costs

July 22, 2022

Global survey of 300 investment managers details how evolving operations models, changing investment strategies and emerging asset classes impact views on outsourcing

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Risks in Europe finely balanced as ECB raises rates

July 22, 2022

Signs of market strain – notably widening spreads between German and Italian sovereign debt – had already triggered an emergency ECB meeting in June, and a new ‘anti-fragmentation’ tool was announced on 21 July.

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Can private equity have their cake and eat it too?

July 22, 2022

One of the most-discussed topics within the space is around the democratisation of private assets.

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Will heatwaves burn through energy resources?

July 21, 2022

They maintain their neutral view of US utilities, but highlight that utilities’ infrastructure investments will help support stable earnings growth for US utilities.

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Opportunities arise as central banks yield to the inevitable

July 21, 2022

We examine the forces driving the new paradigm for fixed-income investors and the opportunities emerging.

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Wealth gap between richest and those in middle is highest on record – think tank

July 21, 2022

It made the findings in Arrears Fears, the foundation’s third annual wealth audit of Britain – in partnership with the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.

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