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Renowned energy investor Tim Guinness has forecast the price of US natural gas could increase by 300% in the next five years as supply is choked off and demand grows for gas ahead of coal.

Three brave finance professionals are preparing to undertake a gruelling walk to the North Pole, with the aim of raising £1m for worthy causes.

Aberdeen Asset Management's head of North American equities Paul Atkinson is backing US blue chips over cyclicals to deliver dividend growth ahead of the market.

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Schroders has launched a Secure Distribution fund offering a 7.5% annual return for half of a 20-year fixed term.

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Investors have suggested the eurozone crisis has not yet reached another critical stage, despite a €100bn bailout of Spanish banks failing to prevent the country's borrowing costs reaching record highs.

Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Daniel Tubbs, former co-head of BlackRock's global emerging markets team, to run an emerging markets equity fund.

GLG is to soft-close its Dublin-domiciled European Equity Alternative fund, run by the group's co-founder Pierre Lagrange, less than a year after it launched.

Moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of five of the Netherlands' largest banks as the country's economy struggles with a domestic recession and the effects of the eurozone crisis.