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Founded in 2008, Barak is a niche fund management company whose main purpose is to provide investors with unique commodity-focused investment opportunities via trade finance assets across more than 30 African countries. We spoke to them to find out more about their company, and how their flagship fund, The Barak Structured Trade Finance Fund, consistently achieves returns.

QW Capital LLP is an investment management firm based in London (UK). They manage equity portfolios following a non-discretionary quantitative approach and offer investors access to their strategies either through managed accounts or a UCITS fund structure with daily liquidity. They also have the ability to provide a variety of tailor made products such as swaps, options and capital protected notes on their strategy.

Chilton Investment Company has been managing long/short equity portfolios for institutional clients since the firm’s inception in 1992. Today, Chilton has offices in both the US and the UK, focusing on managing classic hedged equity strategies that seek to generate consistent and superior risk-adjusted returns.

With 225,000 employees worldwide, Deloitte is a leading professional services provider on a Spanish and international scale. Deloitte’s wide range of services include audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management as well as tax and legal services.

Since the formative transaction that created C-III Capital Partners in 2010, C-III has grown into a fully-diversified commercial real estate services and investment management company; this full-service platform has a competitive advantage in sourcing, underwriting and managing real estate debt and equity investments.

James Berry & Associates is one of the longest established legal practices in Dubai, offering an overall solution for the highly diverse needs of their clients. We spoke to them to find out more about their region, and how they assist businesses in the UAE.

Statistics announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician in the latest Retail Sales Index for Scotland release, covering the period October to December 2015, show that the volume of Retail Sales in Scotland increased by 0.6% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and grew by 2.2% annually.

More than a billion pounds is to be invested by the Ministry of Defence to continue the modernisation of military flying training in the UK.

Banc of California, Inc. today reported net income of $19.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2015, resulting in diluted earnings per share of $0.39 for the quarter and $1.34 for the full year.

Saltus is an independently owned investment management and financial planning company.

Jacques Werner is a senior arbitrator for Werner & Associés.

Betto seraglini is a boutique dispute resolution law firm specialising in international arbitration and commercial litigation. They launched in 2013 with Professor Christophe Seraglini, in order to provide tailored high-quality legal services to sophisticated clients. They work for high profile clients, mostly in the defence, energy, civil aviation, construction and investment sectors in disputes requiring very particular technical and legal expertise.

M&A Property Investors is a Pan European Private Equity Investment Boutique with a current investment portfolio of over €350 million.

Birmingham Airport is an international transport hub in the centre of the UK

Atlantic Subsea is a premier marine infrastructure firm

Everbridge provides enterprise software applications that automate processes for dealing with critical situations in order to keep people safe and businesses running. The company’s focus is on automating the exchange of critical information — to ensure the rapid and reliable distribution of notifications to employee populations, customers, citizens and communities when events such as severe weather or an active shooter could endanger people, or IT outages, cybersecurity attacks, or equipment failures might disrupt businesses.

Andrew Bailey will become Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), succeeding Tracey McDermott, who has acted as interim CEO since Martin Wheatley stepped down from the post in September 2015. Mr Bailey is being appointed for a five-year term, and will take up his new role once his successor at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has been found.

Hedge funds finished last year up 2.42%, beating equities and bonds on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis, analysis of performance data by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), reveals.

Emerging Global Advisors' survey finds neutral investor sentiment dominant in emerging markets.

EnTrust, a leading hedge fund investor, to be combined with Permal to create one of the largest global alternative asset management firms

Sterling Capital Management LLC (Sterling) announced that several of its mutual funds have ranked near the top of their respective Lipper Peer Categories.

Basel III reforms have fundamentally changed how asset managers are connected to the financial system, with hedge funds challenged to understand expense, usage and access to the financing power grid, according to a joint survey and report by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).

The Chancellor George Osborne today announced an end to prohibitive charges faced by people looking to access their pension pot as he outlined proposals to place a duty on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to cap excessive early exit charges for those eligible to access the pension freedoms.

Northern Ireland Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry today launched the third Financial Services Academy in conjunction with FinTrU, a rapidly expanding financial services outsourcing provider with a Centre of Excellence based in Belfast.

Armed Forces personnel posted overseas will be able to rent out their homes without facing higher mortgage costs or having to change their mortgage the UK Government said today.

The latest figures reveal the European Investment Bank lent €7.77 billion to UK projects last year, an increase of 10% on 2014 investment.

Mervyn Storey MLA has been appointed as the new Finance and Personnel Minister. Mr Storey was previously Minister for Social Development from September 2014 to January 2016 and also served as Chair of the Education Committee.

Notz Stucki has over fifty years’ experience of selecting external portfolio managers, many of whom are among the best-known managers of their time. This experience has influenced the way the firm selects managers, employing deep knowledge of the industry as a whole, combined with an accumulation of data on many hundreds of individual managers. The emphasis is on diversifying risk across a range of managers using complementary styles, which include long/short equities, fixed income and macro strategies.

Research and Markets announces the addition of the "Global ATM Market Report: 2015 Edition" report to their offering.

PFS announces the launch of an API banking proposition that facilitates SEPA Credit and Debit Transfers and standing orders in Europe.

Brexit has prompted a surge in enquiries to immigration lawyers with businesses and workers concerned for their future one week on from the EU Referendum.National law firm Simpson Millar’s Head of Immigration Emma Brooksbank has reported a huge rise in calls from EU migrants hoping to secure permanent residence and a similar surge in enquiries from businesses employing foreign workers who face a significant new tariff as the UK exits the European Union.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published Retirement Income Market Data for the period between July to September 2015.

This second defence was not found in December 2015 draft. It has no precedent in the Bribery Act 2010. Its introduction marks a policy shift which gives greater protection to a corporate suspect. It seems to recognise, quite rightly, that small to medium entities should not be unduly burdened with creating compliance procedures if they reasonably perceive the risks of tax facilitation in their business to be non-existent.

Every 3 years, the Pensions Advisory Service carries out research on the impact of changes within the world of pension saving and the effects these changes have on women as pension savers.

Allied Wallet announced earlier this year that it has recently released their new “Next Gen Payment Gateway” for online payment processing.

Norwegian American Hospital is a 200 bed mission-driven safety net hospital. Their patient population is primarily Latino with about 75% of revenue coming from Medicaid. Their patients are mainly minorities facing various health issues like diabetes, cancer and substance abuse. The challenge is to keep the population healthy, and we have focused on creating programs that reflect the needs of the community.