By Tom Brown, Head of Investment Management

Things are looking up for the investment management industry, or so our recent Business Leaders Survey suggests. Players are moving off the life-support systems that kept them ticking over six months ago, and have now entered a recovery phase.

By Richard Nixon, Corporate Advisory Partner

Ask any business leader what their top challenge is today and – more than likely – the answer will be cutting costs.  Indeed, KPMG’s 2012 Business Leaders Survey demonstrated that changing business operations to realise cost efficiencies was the top concern nagging at the minds of CEOs.  Given the history of the past three years this shouldn’t be a surprise especially as business leaders could, by now, be expected to have completed many of those tough decisions regarding their cost base.