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Stocks drift lower on thin trading volumes during the final week of trading for 2017, but the focus now is on the year ahead and trading challenges and opportunities. Ian Slattery reports.

Ian Slattery reports on investment performance and finds that stocks moved higher as markets eye a US rate rise later this week.

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Zurich won the Best Life Assurance and Pensions Award at the 2017 InBusiness Recognition Awards ceremony in Dublin.

2017 was a good year for investors who maintained a long term outlook, and did not get side-tracked by short term volatility, writes Ian Slattery.

Eurozone, manufacturing and services PMIs had their best showing since April 2011 and the European Commission's economic sentiment gauge hit a 17 year high, writes Ian Slattery.

Consumer sentiment in the US for November dipped slightly, however this followed a 13-year high in October. Eurozone inflation figures, which are due for release on Thursday, are projected to be up for the month. Ian Slattery reports.

Zurich was crowned overall winner of the Broker Ireland 2017 Excellence Awards at a ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dublin in November.

Richard Temperley, Zurich's Head of Investment Development, talks to Ian Slattery about the changing dynamics of the global as they discuss how equities, bonds, commodities and currencies are performing in the current climate.

For former geologist Andy Sleeman, the measure of his retirement success is the time it allows him to spend with his grandchildren, and on his boat.