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The US Raises the Roof - Well Just a Little! by Justin Urquhart Stewart

If you want to spot an encouraging sign in the US economy, then it's probably worth looking at its most decimated sector for the past few years - property.

Floods of money don’t overwhelm a cliff - Coutts

With equity markets retreating from recent highs, the US fiscal cliff remains the main source of investor concern as we head towards the end of the year.

The Biggest Concerns of Affluent Women

Affluent women live complicated, busy, and stressful lives.

Cautious outlook for global economic growth - Threadneedle

Threadneedle’s quarterly Economic Review meeting in September reaffirmed our cautious outlook for global economic growth.

Executive Compensation Tops ISS List for Investors and Issuers

On this, shareholders and corporate issuers can agree: executive compensation will continue to be the top priority for the next proxy season, according to a new survey by leading advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services.

Global View From Asia - Bonds can lose you money too - Coutts

There is a positive mood spreading through the financial markets. Yes the Euro zone continues to cause problems and Turkey’s face off against Syria is worrisome -- but the largest economy in the world is showing signs of life.

Half of Wall Street Employees Expect Bigger Bonuses

Almost half of Wall Street employees expect their year-end bonuses to be higher this year than they were a year ago, according to an eFinancialCareers.com survey.

Hiring for wealth management pros increasing at banks

Houston banks appear to be hiring wealth management professionals and private bankers

United States -Teetering on the fiscal cliff - Schroders

With the first of the presidential debates now underway, Keith Wade, Chief Economist at Schroders gives his view on the potential for political chicanery, and implications for financial markets, in the last few months before the US reaches its fiscal clif

Rothschild Asset Allocation report - October 2012

The world’s two most important central banks are now committed to stimulus programmes that are potentially unlimited in size.

It’s Easier for Families to Make Money Than it is to Keep it

A new study by Saybrook University scholar Dennis Jaffe shows why – and what to do about it.

Global View From Asia - Still muddling through - Coutts

You sense that investors are watching but are not doing.

Gold seen luring wealthy

High-net-worth individuals are seeking to buy gold to protect their wealth

America's Richest Hedge Fund Managers

The hedge fund industry is going through tough times. The average hedge fund manager has been unable to beat the market for the last 20 months.

Deloitte survey: CFOs playing bigger role in driving sustainability efforts in their organizations

Nearly one-half (49 percent) of CFOs see sustainability as key driver of financial performance

Bernanke sets out his stall

Schroders’ Chief Economist, Keith Wade, comments on yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to launch a third round of Quantitative Easing

America's hold on AAA rating risks collapse next year

America's hold on a AAA rating will collapse next year unless Washington takes measures to rein in the government's debt, Moody's has warned.

Business ethics: split the myth from the hard reality

Al Gini, a professor of business ethics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, has a different perspective. He argues that business is not inherently bad, it just happens to offer many temptations – to counter this

Has China Been Systematically Stealing US Investors Wealth?

Now, almost 4 years later, evidence of fraud is surfacing that begs the question whether or not these listings were designed solely to systematically transfer billions of dollars into the hands of China’s elite.

Forget about that London Whale!

These Are The 10 Wall Street Firms Everyone Is Dying To Work For

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