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Risk profiling, getting the right balance with pension funds and investing in America were all over the nationals at the weekend. Here's what your clients will be calling you about this week.

The US supercommittee's failure to agree a debt reduction plan means the country faces a second rating downgrade by the year end, an economist has warned.

US GDP was revised down from 2.5% to 2% in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said today.

The former chief executive of AIG is suing the US government for $25bn for its 'unconstitutional' takeover of the insurer in 2008.

American Century Investments has launched the American Century US All Cap Growth Fund as part of its Luxembourg-registered UCITS III fund range.

For those seeking a break from the norm, Owain Thomas discovers the IPMI market is both growing strongly and increasingly dynamic

RBC Wealth Management, part of Royal Bank of Canada, has appointed Wayne Pearson and Roberta Ruddy as US-based directors to its International Solutions Team.

ETF cash flows showed a divergence of sentiment between the US and Europe in October, with the replication debate taking its toll on Europe, Deutsche Bank reports.

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro is to play disgraced financier Bernie Madoff in an HBO movie he will produce, according to reports.

HSBC and Standard Chartered could be dragged into a multi-billion dollar dispute between warring Saudi factions after the banks were forced to hand over thousands of potentially incriminating documents.