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Covid-19 has made wealth managers’ IT advance 10 years

If you have a clear digital strategy and are advanced digitally then the past year will not have been bad.

Retail trading triggers questions around market values

That forced the hedge funds specialised in short selling the names to cover their short positions by buying stocks, reinforcing the price rises.

4 in 10 investors have dramatically increased investment expenditure throughout the Covid-19 pandemic

The respondents were surveyed on their savings and investment plans for the year ahead.

Model Portfolio Management: Striking the Balance Between Consistency and Customization

How can they reap the benefits of model portfolios that give them the necessary scale

Views From the Floor – The End of the Big Short?

Are we witnessing the end of returns to big shorts?; wage inflation remains the missing piece of the inflation puzzle; and the surprising trend of earnings revisions.

Stranger than fiction by Tim Price

After 30 years in the capital markets, you think you’ve seen everything – and then something like Wallstreetbets and the great short squeeze of 2021 come along.

Longest-Reigning Bank CEO in Europe Has One of Its Worst Records

An uneasy silence fell over the room as Oudea berated the gathering, people with knowledge of the meeting said, signaling the power he held over the board members who are meant to oversee him.

London’s ultra-rich ditch basement excavations as they swap the capital for the countryside

The number of applications to convert basements in Westminster has fallen as the wealthy leave for the countryside

Speculative Fictions: Gamestop, Bitcoin and Beyond by Coutts

Investors are reportedly making fortunes from their sofa using online trading apps to pursue highly speculative assets and trading strategies.

Patchy Economic Recovery – Not to Worry. - Gary Dugan

All eyes will be on the US inflation data given the current hot debate over the nature of any inflation risk to central bank policy and the financial markets.

Britain's biggest banks, including HSBC, preparing bonus pot

It will also maintain a £2,000 cap on cash handouts which has been in place since the financial crisis, they added.

The importance of Middle East investors to London's office market

New figures reveal regional investment of nearly $5.3bn in 2021 despite pandemic impact on global travel

British investors should keep a wary eye on Chinese delisting in the Caymans

This moved us much closer to China in ways that raised concerns among policy experts at the time, but was a strategy to establish trading links with an economy that looked set to grow massively, and on the back of great efforts by Beijing to assuage the W

While the family grieve privately the wider team at The Captain Tom Foundation would like to express our heartbreak at today’s news:

Thank you Captain Sir Tom. Because of you tomorrow will be a good day for so many more.

Five key charts for investing in 2021

As investors consider their positioning for 2021, we have selected five key charts to bring them up to speed on the current investment environment.

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