'Do you dream of a new life - where commuting to work is calmer and quicker, the air is cleaner and where you can nurture those unfulfilled ambitions?' Thus runs the home page of returntoscotland.com, a website run by Reach, a recruitment consultant, which promises that 'you're just a click away from a job with some of the world's leading companies and a new way of life in Scotland'.

For the investment administration industry, Scotland - and, more specifically, Edinburgh - is indeed a dream location, so it is little wonder that an entrepreneurial recruitment agency would be trying to lure talent back north of the border. Jobs on the website run the gamut of the financial services sector, but a high proportion are for positions within fund managers' middle and back offices.