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		<title>RBS and NatWest customers offered range of ethical choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 6th, 2012 People approaching Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest cash machines are increasingly likely to be confronted by a range of ethical choices before they&#8217;re able to withdraw their cash. Given the Edinburgh-based bank&#8217;s failure to properly reform itself in the wake of its October 2008 taxpayer-funded bailout, and its pariah-like status over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The media frenzy about RBS bonuses and Fred Goodwin&#8217;s knighthood is a sideshow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: February 2nd, 2012 Financial commentators are, suddenly, in demand and it&#8217;s largely down to the continuing failure of banks to properly reform themselves in the wake of the global financial crisis and the current public rage about bankers who continue to award themselves massive pay packages even though their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are hedge funds and private equity funds fleecing their investors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: February 1st, 2012 The Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett (pictured above playing the ukelele) once famously quipped that a hedge fund is a “compensation scheme masquerading as an asset class”. The remark, a reference to the fact that many hedge funds provide investors with feeble returns whilst massively enriching intermediaries (the hedge fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Cummings&#8217; &#8216;Aladdin&#8217;s Cave&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 31st, 2012 The man who destroyed the Bank of Scotland with a reckless and seemingly out-of-control corporate and real estate lending spree is in the media again. Mortgage Strategy has an article (Living in the age of less reason) which touches on the &#8220;pig on pork&#8221; or integrated finance model favoured by Peter Cummings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle of Hester&#8217;s bonus: Labour&#8217;s hypocrisy, PIRC&#8217;s doubts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 28th, 2012 Labour is being supremely hypocritical over the £1 million share-based bonus recently awarded to RBS boss Stephen Hester. It was the government of Gordon Brown, which didn&#8217;t leave Downing Street until May 2010, that signed off the original contract and subsequent long-term remuneration policies that made the bonus possible. The ministers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does RBS boss Stephen Hester deserve his £1m bonus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fraser Published: QFINANCE Date: January 27th, 2012 The board of Royal Bank of Scotland and its remuneration committee, led by the ex-Coca Cola executive Penny Hughes but also comprising ex-Standard Life boss Sandy Crombie, must have decided let&#8217;s just go for it and to hang with the consequences. The RBS board of directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massed burial of heads in the Davos snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 26th, 2012 Apparently the topic on everyone&#8217;s lips at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos this year is income inequality and how to reduce it. Does the global corporate elite not realise there is a fairly obvious solution, and it&#8217;s staring them in the face? As a starting point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Summers washes hands of all responsibility for crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 24th, 2011 I watched Channel 4&#8242;s Krishnan Guru-Murthy interview the prominent US economist Larry Summers on Channel 4 News last night. The first half focuses on the stimulus vs. austerity debate and Monday&#8217;s release of secret memos detailing advice given by Summers to President Barack Obama. But what I found more interesting was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Economist: &#8216;Revolving door&#8217; capitalism has its flaws too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 23rd, 2012 As part of its special report on state-sponsored capitalism, published in its January 21st issue, the Economist berated emerging markets including China and some developed countries for adopting a model of capitalism in which the state owns many of the prize corporate assets. The special report was credited to the magazine&#8217;s management editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stripping Fred Goodwin of his knighthood won&#8217;t solve the banking crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 21st, 2012 The current cross-party campaign to have Sir Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood makes for entertaining viewing, but I’m afraid I don’t agree with it. The current witchhunt is handy for the politicians. It gives the impression they&#8217;re doing something to punish a perpetrator of the banking crisis but, call me cynical, [...]]]></description>
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