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Gulf in savings required to maintain living standards

Cruises, holidays, gifting: the early years of retirement are to be enjoyed — just make sure you have a robust pension decumulation plan in place

Labour insider downplays prospect of new levy on lenders

Slower economic growth and stagnant wages have knocked confidence and lending

Executives worry lenders will be targeted to help fill £20bn fiscal hole

Hot IPO, meet the ETF creation-redemption magic

Plus, an ad giant scales down and Bain Capital’s healthcare dealmaking drive

The memoir of the Credit Suisse boss turned Ivory Coast opposition leader is a compelling account of a life in business and beyond, with lessons on race and racism along the way

Infrastructure will let banks deliver short-term loans more easily but encouraging take-up could prove difficult

Favourable tax regime is drawing wealthy newcomers and changing the city’s dynamic

Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer on what Joshua Amirthasingh’s photographs say about how wealth has shaped the city

Australian bank ANZ apologises and offers counselling to more than 100 staff

A new trilemma

Plus, the risks of hedge funds’ insurance binge

Reinsurer says private capital’s push into tools such as ‘cat bonds’ risks increases volatility for the sector

NatWest and Lloyds among lenders exposed as ‘altnets’ buckle under strain of rising costs and fierce fibre competition

A glittering ghost town no longer: Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District is filling up

Women coming into large estates have to deal with emotional loss and financial complexity — often with limited preparation

Move by New Zealand’s Super Fund signals waning confidence in long-term outlook for American equities

Appointment of Andreas Dombret is part of strategy to resolve conflict between investors and founders

This is how the cookie could crumble

Net-Zero Banking Alliance opens internal vote about changing its membership-based structure

French bank joins Swiss boutique CBH as country seeks control of diamond miner after $12bn Qatar investment deal

Owners of four skyscrapers have issued $3bn in commercial mortgage-backed securities

Examples of assets shunted from one continuation vehicle into another are dribbling out