The French government is strengthening laws on the buying and selling of precious metals in an effort to tighten regulations in the industry. It comes amid an alarming spike in jewellery heists in the Alpes-Maritimes and a surge in metal thefts throughout Europe.Read more

As readers from Riviera Times know, RFP is a very transparent financial adviser and all comments on financial markets and articles can be checked during the months after they're published on our web site. We concluded our article in The Rivera Times January 2011 as follows: "Consequently, we remain very careful and we prefer to wait before investing again on stock markets".
In our monthly market analysis report from March 2011, when Eurostoxx 50 was reaching 2,949 and gold 1,429 USD per once, we were advising to sell stocks and buy gold. They respectively reached 2,219 and 1,586 (peaked at 1,826 beginning of September).
Future developments showed our forecasts were right.Read more

Everybody has heard about savings, stocks or bonds. But banks are innovative, and many other products have been created throughout the years which can even be subscribed to French and Luxembourg life insurance policies. We would like to introduce you to 10 kinds of investments you are probably not too familiar with. Last month, we introduced the first five on our list. Here are the last five:Read more

A decision to withhold dividends for the fiscal 2010/2011 year was announced at the Société Des Bains de Mer (SBM)’s extraordinary general meeting, held last month on 9th September. The move was prompted by a previously-announced net loss of 17.3 million euros on a consolidated turnover of 361.7 million.Read more