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Edinburgh-based global asset manager Standard Life Investments has teamed up with Challenger, a leader in retirement incomes in Australia to launch a new Global Bond product aimed at the retail retirement market.

The aggregate total wealth of private households in Scotland has increased to £856.6 billion but the wealthiest 1 per cent of Scots now own more wealth than the bottom 50 per cent of households combined.

The beleaguered Co-op Bank has put itself put up for sale four years after it almost collapsed and was bailed out by US hedge funds.

The pension scheme which controls the pension pots of thousands of professors and lecturers has provisionally agreed to buy a minority stake in the Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank alongside Australian investor Macquarie, according to reports.

Jamie Andrew Scottish Borders-based angel investment group TRI Capital has appointed Jamie Andrew following the retirement of long-standing Chairman Rob Dick.

Members of Parliament believe accountants will be increasingly in demand during the Brexit process, according to a new study commissioned by Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 9.0 per cent in January 2017, a short drop from the rate of 9.2 per cent in October 2016, according to latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium.

PwC in Scotland has announced an enhanced structure for its deals line of service with corporate finance partner Jon Shelley and director Mark Addley joining the leadership team, and Jason Morris taking on the senior role of Scottish deals leader.

Martin Gill Mid-sized businesses have created nearly 80,000 jobs in Scotland over the last five years outstripping the job growth of the country’s large and small businesses, according to new research from accountancy and advisory firm BDO.

The property market in east central Scotland has seen a slight increase in the number of properties being put up for sale over the last three months, according to the latest analysis from ESPC. The 2.4 per cent increase in the number of homes brought to market is indicative of a turnaround in the p

Glasgow City Council's Glasgow Film Office (GFO) made a substantial contribution to the local economy in 2016, with £16.38 million generated by film, broadcast and advertising productions in the city.

RBS CEO Ross McEwan announces the new hub at RBS HQ in Gogarburn. A new specialist fintech hub, backed by the UK and Scottish governments and based at Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters in Edinburgh, will open its doors to entrepreneurs in May 2017.

Edinburgh Printmakers CEO Sarah Price has today shared the organisation’s vision of a new creative industries hub as part of an £11 million capital development project at Castle Mill Works in Fountainbridge.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has moved to play down reports that it is set slash a massive 15,000 jobs in its latest bid to cut costs and finally return to profit.

Citizens of Ullapool, Newtonmore and Pittenweem are five times more likely to be self-employed than those who live in Linwood, Leuchars or Port Glasgow, according to new research.