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This environment is keeping the questions about monetary policy at the top of the list of investors’ concerns.

Bitcoin clones set to kill digital currency?

Citibank’s analyst believes that the market is likely to end up with a plethora of “bitcoin lookalikes with little to choose between them, so pricing becomes very difficult.

Another FTSE Fad Goes – Annuity Warnings & Pay by Justin Urquhart Stewart

The FTSE100 is a remarkably unreliable friend.

2013 Christmas party season for London's financiers is about decency over debauchery

London financiers plan low key Christmas parties

How a canny hire turned Old Mutual from a £160m straggler to a £1bn heavyweight

The group has been catapulted to the seventh biggest in net retail sales – last year, it wasn’t even in the top 20.

Diamonds Demand Will Rise, Goldman Sachs Predicts

The main diamond miners – De Beers, Alrosa, Rio Tinto and Dominion Diamond – reported higher production in the first nine months of this year.

Why Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—in 2 Charts

Bitcoin could be Paypal 2.0, but it will never be the dollar 2.0. Not when prices would have had to fall 98.5 percent the past year if they'd been set in terms of Bitcoin.

Big Interview: Martin Baines, chief executive of Quilter Cheviot

Wealth fund manager's top executive visits Liverpool operation

Is That Gold Bullion In Your Pants, Or You Just Happy to Be in India?

Jewelry demand is such an intrinsic part of Indian culture that it is not surprising that as official imports have slowed, smuggling has risen.

Pope Attacks Mega-Salaries and Wealth Gap in Peace Message

Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap.

Legacy Systems Pose Threat To Financial Institutions

In the investment management industry and related financial institutions, the issue of legacy IT systems is high on the agenda.

High net worth individuals and trustees – time to breathe easy? by Gary Heynes

Some expected and unexpected changes for individuals and trustees – but was it smiles all round, or tears and frowns?

The Ions Age at Liontrust

Liontrust has seen a surge in assets under management in the last three years since chief executive John Ions took the reigns and he says the capacity is there to continue growing

Pershing’s John Ward and Gil Addeo on Their Views of the LatAm Wealth Market

Take a look below to see the new financial center hubs they highlight and the big trends that they have seen impact the wealth industry.

Coutts Views - investment outlook for 2014

Potential opportunities for hedge funds and for UK commercial property

Men Are More Likely to Land Executive Role

A Man starting his career with a FTSE-100 company is 4.5 times more likely to make it to the executive committee than his female counterpart

Looking ahead to 2014 by Martin Wheatley, FCA

Speech by Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the ICI Global Trading and Market Structure Conference. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ from the delivered version.

Has Carney got the Old Lady's Mojo back? by Justin Urquhart Stewart

I have always been somewhat cynical over the 'independence' of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.

Goldmark: Nelson Mandela focused on the horizon

A generous and principled giant has died.

The turtle and the hare by Tim Price

Of all the stories in the history of markets, that of ‘the turtles’ may well be the most intriguing.

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