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ABR and OpenFunds announce the successful seeding of the first of a series of UCITS V fund managed by ABR.

The yellow metal traded rather flat on Friday morning, as it found support in the monthly R1, which is located at 1,237.68. The bullion retreated to that level after it stopped and reversed its surge in the second half of Thursday’s trading session. Gold has two possible future scenarios. Either the bullion finds enough strength in the support level to rebound and approach the 1,245 level, or the yellow metal will fail at that and begin a move lower. A move lower would result in a fall to the weekly PP, which is located at 1,232.24.

As myself and all other business leaders know, when you step away from work you never really stop thinking about it – even when hurtling down an icy ski slope in the Swiss Alps.

New cartoon animation on social media; actor sir Michael Gambon partners with Aberdeen Asset Management in “The fables of fixed income”

After the economic, financial and especially political turbulence that saw new actors on the international scenario and characterised the year 2016, the diamond market still gives reassuring signs.

Trump’s election, love him or loathe him, has had repercussions on the economics in the US but Europe, and Switzerland, have been affected as well. Alberto Mingardi, who is part […]

The Dow has gone over 20,000, a historic high. As of 10th February it was at 20,269.37. The SPX was also flying high at 2,316.10. “All is well that ends well” can certainly be said for the past week`s performance in the markets. As is well known, however, history and past performance are no guarantee for the future.

The first weeks of Mr Trump being in power have been disruptive, the least to say. Concomitantly, reflation trades, which we were early proponents of since Spring last year, may be getting overextended. We believe it may be time to consider Defensive and Growth stocks again.