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Citywire Investment News
- GAM partners with Barclays for multi-asset fund
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 Z
GAM is teaming with Barclays Capital to launch an actively managed fund of indices, providing dynamic exposure to a range of asset classes.
- JP Morgan's Gartside set for 'classic' global bond conditions
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:57:34 Z
JPM's global strategic bond fund manager thinks a Japan-style deleverage cycle offers ?classic? conditions for global bonds.
- Short-sellers flock to LinkedIn and Groupon
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:49:53 Z
All the hype surrounding Facebook's flotation has not stopped the bears lifting their shorts on fellow high profile internet names LinkedIn and Groupon to unprecedented levels.
- Affinity Private Wealth offers fee reduction for early joiners
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:13:26 Z
The new Jersey-based boutique, set up by a senior team from Fairbairn, is planning to reduce fees once it reaches the £200 million asset mark and has incentives for early joiners.
BBC Business News
- House prices 'up 0.6% in January'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:16:22 GMT
UK house prices increased by 0.6% in January, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.
- Mitsubishi to close Europe plant
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:53:34 GMT
Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors says it is to end production at its only plant in Western Europe.
- Final bids for retailer Peacocks
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:47:23 GMT
Six serious bidders remain in contention to take over the Cardiff-based clothing retail firm Peacocks, struggling with £750m debts, BBC Wales understands.
- Indonesia growth at 15-year high
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:21:23 GMT
Indonesia's economy grows at its fastest pace in 15 years during 2011, boosted by increased investment and growing domestic demand.
BBC News
- Motorists warned over ice hazard
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:14:47 GMT
Drivers are being warned of black ice, while some schools are closed, following the snow which fell across much of Britain at the weekend.
- Syria troops step up Homs bombing
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:11:05 GMT
Heavy artillery fire rocks the restive Syrian city of Homs, in what anti-government activists are calling one of the fiercest assaults yet.
- House prices 'up 0.6% in January'
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:06:53 GMT
UK house prices increased by 0.6% in January, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.
- VIDEO: The day Elizabeth became Queen
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:06:16 GMT
Sixty years ago today King George VI died and his 25-year-old daughter Princess Elizabeth became Queen.
Citywire Money, Tax and Property
- The 20 postcodes most 'at risk' of burglary
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:34 Z
The areas in the UK that see the most home insurance claims for theft or burglary, and the postcodes that are least at risk.
- House prices flat as market 'dogged by uncertainty'
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
January marked the eighteenth month that house prices did not rise, according to Hometrack.
- Buying a house is now cheaper than renting one
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:01:00 Z
Buying a house is over £100 a month cheaper than renting, according to Halifax. Wales is the exception.
- Mansion tax: a terrible, unworkable idea
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:58:02 Z
Vince Cable?s plan to impose a tax on properties worth more than £2 million is impractical, unethical and cowardly, argues Linton Chiswick.
