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From COMMENT Feb 8, 2013

Finance: Buried treasure

Cayman Islands

©Nasa

Frustrated investors are pushing Cayman for greater transparency but few expect rapid change

Industry trends

Exchange Traded Funds

Sights set on $3tn assets milestone

– Special report

OTC derivatives

A clearing house

The future slowly becomes clearer

– Special report

View from the US from FTFM OPINION Feb 8, 2013

Egyptian spring could be European storm

Desperate people can behave badly, warns John Dizard

View from the US Hunt is on for sovereign debt holdouts
View from the US Asset managers must lobby Washington

EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS Feb 8, 2013

Foreign bonds back in Vanguard pipeline

Twice-postponed rollout to combine corporate, government debt

PENSIONS INDUSTRY Feb 7, 2013

Pension funds wary of UK infrastructure

Investors want government to take on some of the risk of investing in new-build projects

The Queen

©PA From WORLD Feb 8, 2013

Crown Estate seeks investment partners

Property group plans £320m overhaul of St James’s area

Marine power Demand for offshore test beds increases
Queen’s property portfolio now worth £8bn

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The future of private wealth management is digital

CFA Institute: traditional wealth management needs to change
The benefits of volatility futures in equity portfolios

Volatility and equity returns tend to move in opposite directions
Issues with volatility ETNs

Volatility ETNs cause market distortions, says Edhec

©Getty From COMPANIES Feb 7, 2013

Apple under pressure on $137bn cash pile

Activist investor Einhorn sues group over proposed charter changes

From COMPANIES Feb 7, 2013

Investments pay off for KKR

Private equity firm posts most profitable year since going public

From EMERGING MARKETS Feb 7, 2013

Investors start a new scramble for Africa

Frontier markets outperform mainstream counterparts this year

Global Insight African ‘barons’ seek firmer foundations
Global inflows to Africa at two-year peak

From COMPANIES Feb 7, 2013

Investors propose executive pay guidelines

NAPF seeks ‘skin in the game’ requirement

From COMPANIES Feb 6, 2013

Investors call for leveraged buyout wave

‘More Dells’ needed to prevent loan scarcity

Columnists

View from the US

John Dizard

A ‘pretty big shark cage’ would be needed to protect restructuring sovereigns from holdouts, but John Dizard believes it shows free capital flows are becoming restricted

Opinion

Chris Newlands

©FT Fund managers may wonder what’s in a name, but if they don’t advertise, they will soon find that investors could decide ‘no brand, no chance’, finds Chris Newlands

The Last Word

Edward Chancellor

The world is trapped in a debt supercycle, but as the stock of debt becomes ever larger, future income streams to repay the loans are set to shrink, says Edward Chancellor

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