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High pay does not equal high quality
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Cash-rich Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are avoiding investing in property and infrastructure projects ©Bloomberg
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‘Lax’ Luxembourg defends regulation

Grand duchy denies lapses in supervision, finds Chris Newlands

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UK fiduciary management should go Dutch

Dutch pension funds have much experience of this approach

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Retail investors creep back into market

Stock markets are up, but no evidence of ‘great rotation’

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The dismal science of Baltic bubblenomics

John Dizard considers the success of ‘austerian’ policies

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Special report: Asset manager intentions

'The financial crisis hit asset management like an asteroid in 2008,' James Dilworth, chief executive of Allianz Global Investors Europe, told FTfm ©Bloomberg

Will the middle go the way of the dinosaur or rise to phoenix-­like splendour?

The Last Word May 19, 2013

Bad governance is not mutually exclusive

James Mackintosh does not believe mutuality cures commercial ills

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Yesterday’s stars are today’s crooks

Chris Newlands considers the rise in arrests for insider trading

'Fair game': depositors in Cyprus are being treated as regular creditors and taking substantial losses ©Getty May 19, 2013

Credit investors heed Cyprus precedent

Time will tell if extreme solution will be used in Europe again

Old-school managers, epitomised by the likes of George Soros, made big, fundamentally driven bets and were prepared to withstand large profit and loss swings ©Bloomberg May 19, 2013

RoRo your boat gently down tourist macro

Could macro hedge funds return to form in 2013?

View from the US May 17, 2013

Fed hints at financial Heimlich manoeuvre

John Dizard wonders if authorities will act if markets choke

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