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Strong growth from South Africa has underpinned an increase in business in the first quarter of 2012 for Fairbairn Private Bank. The bank has witnessed a 17% year-on-year increase, which is the strongest opening quarter for new business since the financial crisis commenced in 2008.
Growth in corporate inward investment in South Africa and the introduction of new tax policies and draft tax proposals designed to stimulate the manufacturing industry, is seeing an increase in the need for local tax expertise and cross-border advice, according to Taxand.
How hard is it to design disability-based protection products in 2012, asks Andy Milburn.
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Underwriting requires information, so what can your connections tell us? Greg Becker visits South Africa to look at one idea.
Mark Barnett, manager of the Invesco Perpetual UK Strategic Income fund, on why investors should not dismiss the out-of-favour UK equity market.
Policies often cover the breadwinner, but should we be selling more protection to cover events affecting other family members? Greg Becker looks at the Australian answer
Incentivised health and wellbeing programmes can reduce healthcare costs and admissions, a new study has revealed.
South African fraudsters have created fake life stories to apply for special state pensions offered to anti-Apartheid campaigners.
Thomas Heathfield chose perhaps the most extreme route out of high street bank consultancy ever heard of.
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Private bank Kleinwort Benson has completed its £26.4m acquisition of Close Brothers' offshore arm
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched the first CIVETS fund making it available to both retail and institutional investors globally.
HSBC has listed its MSCI South Africa ETF on the London Stock Exchange, to trade in both sterling and US dollars.
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