The pension funded status of the nation's largest corporate sponsors reversed direction in 2014, dropping nine percentage points as falling interest rates (which increased liabilities) and the impact of new mortality tables were only partially offset by strong returns on pension plan assets, according to a new analysis by global professional services company Towers Watson.

Nomura, Asia's global investment bank, today announced the appointment of Amanda Chen as Deputy Head of its Wealth Management Division for Asia exJapan.

According to William Davies, Head of global equities at Threadneedle Investments if Greece leaves the euro, contagion will be feared, the volatility of a currency under threat will resurface, and we revisit the throes of the euro crisis we endured a few years back. Not our central case but certainly a distinct possibility...

AMUNDI ETF FLOATING RATE EURO CORPORATE 1-3 UCITS ETF has been listed by Amundi in September 2014 on Euronext Paris and has been registered with the Financial Conduct Authority on December 2nd 2014. Further cross registrations and listings are foreseen in the weeks to come in other European countries.

According to John Chatfeild-Roberts, CIO of Jupiter Asset Management, over the past decade, we have seen several longer term trends play out, from swift urbanisation in developing nations to technological advances everywhere. Changes in currency trends have also had an impact on economies and stock markets, in particular the directional changes in the world's reserve currency, the US dollar...