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L-R: John Montague, managing director of group operations at The Big Issue, Ben Macpherson, SNP MSP for Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Amanda Young, head of responsible investment and Craig MacDonald, global head of fixed income at Aberdeen Standard Investments mark the launch of Big Issue Invest Sco

Evelyn Simpson Investing Women, Scotland’s only all-female business angel group, has announced three appointments to its board of directors.

The accounting deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies decreased slightly from £68bn at the end of September to £67bn on 31 October 2017.

Storage Vault, providers of high quality self-storage, office and studios spaces, will extend its roll-out of new workspace centres across Scotland following agreement of a £5m funding package from HSBC, more than doubling its business and creating up to 15 new jobs in the next year.

Tech-focussed Edinburgh portfolio Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has posted another solid performance for the first half of 2017 after returning 15 per cent compared with 8 per cent for the average fund in the AIC Global sector over the same time period. The value of the portfolio after the firs

Samantha Lamb Aberdeen Standard Investments has launched a Global Short Duration Corporate Bond Fund that it says will cater for investors increasingly wary of the effect of rising interest rates on their fixed income investments.

Moira Kelly Having control over some parts, but not others, of a complex interacting tax system may limit the Scottish Parliament’s ability to maximise the use of its income tax raising powers, tax professionals have warned.

Steven Graham Steven Graham, residential partner at the Glasgow South offices of DM Hall hails a Southside market renaissance

The parent company of Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank has announced that it is setting aside more than £400 million to handle claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). CYGB, which also includes the Yorkshire Bank brand, had previously extended its provisions for PPI by £150 million in

Keith Anderson Keith Anderson of mlm Solutions has been appointed as provisional liquidator to Ayrshire-based renewable technology specialist VG Energy Limited.

Nick Penny Edinburgh needs to re-align itself to focus more on opportunities outside its immediate boundaries in order to continue to meet the ever-growing demand for homes, offices and hotels and fully establish itself as a global city, according to new research from Savills.

One of the world’s only known bottles of Macallan 1878 still in circulation, and previously valued at £7,770 per-dram, with a bar value of £230,000, has been officially exposed as a fake, following an investigation by Edinburgh-based organisation Rare Whisky 101.

Speculative office development in Scotland has ground to a halt again bar selected schemes in Edinburgh, where vacancy continues to fall, according to Ryden’s 81st Scottish Property Review.

Dalnair Castle Challenger bank Aldermore has provided Edinburgh-based developer FM Group with a £3.3 million property development facility to convert Dalnair Castle, a 19th century Scottish Baronial mansion, into 10 luxurious apartments.