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Are private banks helping you to weather the credit crunch?

| By Michelle McGagh | 03:24 | 21 August 2008

Private banks are winning over advisers, offering decent mortgages and currency services in this less than buoyant climate. How are they helping you to help your clients?

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Do advisers share appeal for sector-based ETFs?

| By Richard Harris | 01:59 | 20 August 2008

ETFs are increasingly a tool for active portfolio management, but will you be abandoning generic funds in favour of organising your clients' assets in sectors?

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Is it time to put all our eggs in emerging economy baskets?

| By Richard Harris | 10:09 | 19 August 2008

With negative growth in Japan and the eurozone last quarter, and the US and UK hot on their heels, are the Bric countries a refuge from the downturn or just another domino waiting to fall?

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Schroders move highlights dangers of illiquid assets

| By Nicholas Paler | 05:01 | 15 August 2008

The warning from Schroders that it may charge institutional investors up to 25% of the value of their holding if they exit the firm's Exempt Property unit trust is no doubt another blow to the ailing UK property market.

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UBS rips apart model in bid to preserve wealth management arm

| By Dylan Lobo | 02:30 | 12 August 2008

UBS has finally bitten the bullet and called time on its once lauded ‘one firm’ business model.

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Billions more written off, is there a UK bank worth investing in?

| By Dylan Lobo | 12:33 | 11 August 2008

Over the last fortnight investors got a little more clarification on the extent of the credit crunch through the latest round of dire trading updates from the embattled banking sector.

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One year on...is it the end of the beginning...or the beginning of the end

| By Charlie Parker | 10:52 | 08 August 2008

One year into the credit crunch and only Mystic Meg could pick a date for it to end. But the consensus seems to be that we are at least half way through

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Foreign & Colonial is going bottom fishing

| By Charlie Parker | 03:01 | 06 August 2008

Blog sponsors F&C Investments inform us here at Blog HQ that they are off bottom fishing.

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How do you protect your protected rights?

| By Maryrose Fison | 01:35 | 06 August 2008

The protected rights market could be as large as £100 billion. But with such a sizeable chunk up for grabs, financial planners face an onslaught of offers from providers vying for poll position in the Sipp stakes

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