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Dubai ranks lowest in English language proficiency in spite of its international hub status, according to EF Education First's survey of 25 global cities.
Dubai ranks lowest in English language proficiency in spite of its international hub status, according to EF Education First's survey of 25 global cities.
Investment professionals around the world have identified commission-driven selling of unsuitable products as the ‘most serious’ ethical issue to be faced by the industry next year, according to the CFA Institute’s 2013 Global Market Sentiment Survey.
A meeting of the top officials of Britain’s 14 overseas territories ended this week in London with almost no publicity exactly as it began 48 hours earlier.
An online service has been launched in the UK introducing a cheaper way for retail clients to invest and which could present a very real threat to the wealth management industry.
Now the dust has begun to settle following Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement yesterday, our tax panellists highlight some of the key changes, offer advice on what you can discuss with your clients and point out bits you may have missed.
Chancellor George Osborne today targeted wealthy taxpayers with a reduction in the annual allowance on pension contributions, and vowed to pursue tax avoiders, as part of a general strategy of trying to make do with less.
AES International has for the second year running joined the Sunday Times list of the 100 fastest growing companies in the UK and has in fact moved up the list by seven places from 11th in 2011 to fourth this year.
Aviva is set to cut 120 jobs worth a reported £400m in cost savings.
Spokesmen for some of the UK’s key overseas territories said little beyond the fact that they look forward to meeting UK Government officials imminently to discuss the possibility of their exchanging more information with the UK, in the wake of a report that the UK is seeking to impose its own version of the US…
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has been named as Mervyn King’s successor at the Bank of England.
UK chancellor George Osborne is reportedly considering increasing the amount of tax paid by wealthy Britons on their pensions, the second time he will have done so since the Tory-led coalition came to power in 2010.
Brooks Macdonald is to buy Channel Islands-based DFM Spearpoint for an expected sum of £32.1m, which it plans to raise partly through a share placing.