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The Pros And Cons Of Home Bias

Many investors tend to exhibit a strong preference for their domestic equities, despite the highly integrated nature of financial markets that nowadays offer widespread access to capital. This observed lack of international diversification is commonly referred to as home bias. Failing to globally diversify your portfolio can be costly, but…

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Inspiro Makes The Intelligent Home Of The Future A Reality

The intelligent house of the future has become a reality with the launch of Inspiro, a revolutionary application of technologies which allows householders to control their homes’ utility, entertainment and security functions from anywhere in the world. Inspiro, the residential arm of Perth-based d3 Audio Visual, the industry-leading professional AV…

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Complimentary Business Seminar Run By The World’s No1 Business Coach – Brad Sugars

If you are serious about taking your business to the next level and want to learn how to turn your Marketing and Advertising into an investment, rather than an expense, a great investment of your time would be to attend this 3 hour seminar on Monday 20th October at 6.30pm.…

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Fly To Australia Faster With Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways’ recently introduced Edinburgh-Doha service means travellers benefit from significantly reduced journey times to Perth and Melbourne. Following the launch in May, journey times to Perth reduced to just 20 hours with one quick international transfer while total journey time to Melbourne is 21 hours 40 minutes, with a…

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VIBES Awards Shortlist Announced

Edinburgh businesses vie for prestigious green accolade Six businesses from Edinburgh have been shortlisted for this year’s Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) Awards – Scotland’s leading environment awards scheme. Wind and Cloud Travel, Grease Monkey Cycles, Edinburgh Leisure, Mercat Tours, Soilutions and Celtic Renewables have been…

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‘After Aria’ – Young People Make their Mark on the Fringe Festival

Impact Arts is delighted to present our first feature length play at Edinburgh’s world famous Fringe Festival! Our home in Leith, The Printworks, is an official Fringe venue (no. 404!) and for three days will play host to a sparkling commedia dell’arte called ‘After Aria’. The play has been devised…

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Are you working IN your business or ON it?

In Michael Gerber’s brilliant book “The E-Myth: Why Small Businesses Fail And What To Do About It” he quotes a scary statistic…..80% of businesses fail within their first 5 years and of those who do survive beyond this period, 80% of them fail in their second 5 year period. This…

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Whatever Happens in the Referendum, Renewables Matter so Join the Real Debate.

Glasgow-based ecoConnect may be keeping quiet on what we think should happen on 18 September but we are creating a lot of noise about renewables and the low carbon sector – now we want you to help us turn up the volume. As a community, energy is a key issue…

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Britannia Buys Windsor Castle

The Royal Yacht Britannia announced today that it has acquired the iconic heritage vessel MV Windsor Castle. In a near £1 million investment, this classically designed ship is to be converted into a 25 bedroom luxury ‘boatique’ hotel. She will be berthed permanently, adjacent to Britannia in Edinburgh’s historic port…

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Edinburgh Airport breaks previous summer passenger records

More international passengers sees Capital’s airport enjoy busiest July ever Edinburgh Airport has broken records yet again after seeing more than 1.1 million passengers travel through its terminal in July. Following its record-breaking summer last year, Scotland’s busiest airport has eclipsed its previous July passenger total, making it the first…

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