Investors have ploughed more than £34bn into underperforming funds which have severely lagged peers over the past three years, the latest RedZone report from Chelsea Financial Services reveals.
Gold is likely to suffer from further sell-offs in the short to medium term as investors remain focused on an end to quantitative easing, Steve Russell, investment director at Ruffer, has said.
Supervision of the scandal hit LIBOR interest rate could move to Paris under plans being drawn up by the European Commission, dealing a potential blow to London's financial pre-eminence.
Nearly five years after the worst of the financial crisis, the global economy still faces huge challenges.
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