Germany’s biggest public pension fund plans to invest more in private equity and hedge funds and reduce its bond holdings as low interest rates curb returns...
ZURICH — The Ebola virus is killing 70% of the people who contract the disease, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, and as many as 10,000 new cases a week could be reported by early December...
In the latest hiring roundup, HSBC is recruiting heavily in the UK, JPMorgan is targeting a new region and Nomura pours money into its US investment bank, again. Nomura’s US hiring spree Nomura just hired 15 senior bankers within its investment bank in the Americas...
Ekaterina Lopukhova from Rosa Company have announced that Rosa Desktop Fresh R4 have been released, the latest line-up from "R Series" of Rosa Desktop fresh distribution. As usual, this distribution features KDE desktop environment, which based on KDE 4.13.3 version...
Recently MetaQuotes Software introduced MetaFintech as its new representative office in the UAE. The company now announces its further expansion: Derivative System Technologies will act as its agent in South Africa...
Aside from the brief ‘gold rush’ in 2008, as investment bankers flocked to Dubai to escape the financial crisis sweeping London and New York, the Middle East has struggled to maintain its allure to financial professionals...
If you’re a student and you want to work for Morgan Stanley, you’d better put in an impeccable application. As Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman explained this summer, Morgan Stanley receives 90,000 applications for its summer analyst and associate programmes...
A sleeker design and Intel's Broadwell processors come to Lenovo's convertible Ask most people which is the best Windows laptop on the market today, and the answer you'll get will be near universal: Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro. From top to bottom, it's perhaps the best convertible notebook you can buy...
Snapchat responded to a reported leak of photos sent through its service, saying it was not a result of a breach of the company’s security. Instead, the company said it was a result of a leak from a third-party application...
The European economy may be limping along, but Americans living there say there are other reasons why they call Europe home — or maison, casa or zuhause. More Americans are moving overseas. The Social Security Administration currently sends 613,650 retirement-benefit payments outside the U.S...
Hedge funds reduced bullish gold wagers just before prices rallied the most since June on concern that global economic growth is weakening. The net-long position in New York futures and options contracted for an eighth week, U.S. government data show...
Forex markets are among the most active trading markets in the world, with participants ranging from large banks, to multinational corporations, to governments, to speculators and even to a small fraction of individual professional traders...
Back in the good old days, SAC Capital paid its traders large bonuses when they made the firm massive amounts of money. In many cases, that money was earned through less-than-ethical and sometimes illegal means...
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a London deadlines timetable here...
The Faroe Islands, part of the Kingdom of Denmark, won’t observe European Union sanctions the country says make no economic sense as its fish farmers predict a surge in exports to Russia...
China Huaxin and Alcatel-Lucent have jointly established a controlling company, which will be responsible for the global operation of Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise business. China Huaxin holds a 85% stake in the joint venture, while Alcatel-Lucent owns the remaining 15% stake...
Investors who quickly read their brokerage statements and just glance at the bottom line have reason to look more closely, even at portfolios that are less active: There’s a risk that cyber thieves could hack into your account and wire money to their own accounts, or make unauthorized trades to m...
Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself...
Barclays Plc (BARC) agreed to pay $20 million and cooperate with a group of Eurodollar-futures traders suing other banks, to settle litigation over manipulation of the benchmark London interbank offered rate. The accord, reached Oct...
