The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment has launched what it is calling an "online jobs board" to enable both CISI members and non-members to search for and place jobs in the global financial services industry.
Investors around the world poured almost $1trn (726bn, £599bn) into funds during 2013, roughly the same as the year before, but changed their allocations "dramatically", according to an annual report on the global funds industry issued by Strategic Insight.
HMRC last week lost a case in the UKs Supreme Court which could have a widespread impact on how company contributions to pension schemes are treated.
VAM Funds has appointed Nic Steyn as business development director in Africa.
Recently published legislation from the UAE Insurance Authority suggests the regulator is about to lift its ban on approving new licence applications from insurance brokers.
Pension fund administrators in Gibraltar will soon be able to offer qualifying non-recognised UK pension schemes (QNUPS) to individuals with UK tax obligations who have left the UK for good.
The Spectrum IFA Group is expanding its Italian operations, in response, it says, to strong demand for its services among expatriates.
From the end of next month, investors will be able to access the Japan Dividend Growth Fund.
A search is on for a new chief executive for the entity that has replaced the Channel Islands Stock Exchange, which ran into difficulties last year that resulted in its being reborn in late December as the Channel Islands Securities Exchange.
Start up costs and a shift in strategy continued to put downward pressure on Standard Life’s Asia and emerging markets business last year, although sales and asset gathering largely increased.
Less than two years after launching, BlackRock has closed its Asia Extension Fund to new investors.
WH Ireland has opened an offshore private wealth management office in the Isle of Man, its first outside the UK, with an eye on the international pension market.
