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As winter holidays approach, we are faced with the age-old question: Is it better to embrace the frosty winds and ski right through them, or skip town and head to a place where the warm sun shines?

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Europe's trading community gathered at Trade Tech Liquidity 2011 in London on Thursday. Click through for a gallery of the event. (Pictures courtesy of conference organiser Worldwide Business Research)

John Owens is set to part company with Mirabaud Asset Management after 10 years service as its sales chief, Financial News has learnt

Senior figures in the financial services industry have been quizzed by several UK parliamentary committees in recent months over the drafting of new domestic and European rules on banking reform. Click through for a roundup of the best quotes

The UK asset manager is no longer running a separate team to manage its Sustainable & Responsible Investment funds, a development that has attracted concern from an ethical investment body

US asset manager Franklin Templeton's Global Bond Fund has grown by $85bn over the past three years but has struggled with its currency positions in 2011, according to analysts at JP Morgan

Esma concerned by sovereign exposure accounting

European regulatory body finds the methods for calculating the value of Greek debt varied widely in half year financial statements

Approval from Beijing city government sees US bank become the biggest foreign manager of a yuan-denominated fund to date

Trade of the Week: Italy’s credit default swaps

Investors wondering where the opportunities are for profit in the embattled eurozone could do worse than take a closer look at the credit default swaps of one of the countries at the very heart of the turmoil: Italy

Investment bank of the Week: Lambert Energy Advisory

The publicity-shy advisory boutique relied on good old fashioned relationship banking to secure a role advising Statoil on a $1.6bn asset disposal this week

Rating firms' MF Global role to be explored

US lawmakers want to explore whether or not the star power of Jon Corzine may have clouded the judgement of ratings agencies

Shareholders in the Italian directories publisher are a step closer to restructuring the troubled company’s debt but they could end up seeing their equity stake drop to just 15% as a result

The snowball effect of the eurozone crisis continues - this time with insurers, which are pulling back from savings markets in Italy, France and Spain

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Germany's Angela Merkel refused to agree to euro bonds after the worst-received German bund sale since the launch of the euro; HSBC chairman Douglas Flint said the cost of the Vickers reforms in the UK was 'too high to ignore'; and the Bank of England's Robert Jenkins took aim at bank lobbyists

Allianz board member Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani named as new head of Italian bank

Cinven eyes more acquisitions in 'fragmented' life assurance sector

The firm is looking to seize opportunities to build on the acquisition of Guardian Financial Services completed yesterday

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The top 10 luxury winter getaways

Trade Tech Liquidity 2011

Veteran marketer Owens to quit Mirabaud

What the bankers said to the politicians

Henderson cuts green team

FX woes hit giant Franklin fund

Esma concerned by sovereign exposure accounting

JP Morgan gets yuan fund approval

Trade of the Week: Italy’s credit default swaps

Investment bank of the Week: Lambert Energy Advisory

Rating firms' MF Global role to be explored

Seat Pagine's buyout owners face crunch

Insurers pile on sovereign debt gloom

People in the news this week

Intesa Sanpaolo names Cucchiani CEO

Cinven eyes more acquisitions in 'fragmented' life assurance sector