10/20/2020
The challenges of changing an employee benefits package
Which benefits, should you amend, and how? And is it ever worth cutting benefits?
Comment, Analysis & Research
10/20/2020
The impact of negative interest rates on law firms
In simple terms, that means it will become expensive for any of us lucky enough to have savings to actually hold onto our money.
10/20/2020
Global asset manager AuM tops $100 trillion for the first time
It also shows that, in the past decade, 232 asset manager names have dropped out of the ranking.
10/19/2020
Half of UK financial services staff want shift to flexible working
The research showed that the majority of employees still value their time in the office. Only 26 per cent of those surveyed said they want to work from home full-time in future.
10/19/2020
Half of UK FS workforce want to work from home after Covid-19
Workers aged 31-45 are the most driven to work more flexibly (53%), while workers under 30 are the keenest to work from home permanently (28%).
10/19/2020
London financial services jobs rise after Covid-19 crash
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics last week showed there were 227,000 redundancies across the UK in the three months to August
10/19/2020
Picking over the Laggards by Gary Dugan
The natural reaction of most portfolio managers in the wake of such good news would be to look to buy markets that have serially underperformed over the past seven months.
10/19/2020
Less than half of asset managers assess gender diversity as part of their investment analysis
The data also shows that two-thirds of asset managers had less than 25% female representation on their investment teams and 60% did not report their gender pay gap in 2019.
10/19/2020
The Impact Of The COVID-19 Crisis Begins To Be Felt In Spain Housing Prices
Over the coming quarters, CaixaBank Research expects the decline in housing prices to continue.
10/19/2020
Pimfa warns of 'existential' threat to advisers from rising PI
“This only feeds into concerns we have about businesses failing as a result of claims, and falling onto the FSCS as a result.”
10/19/2020
Are the days of family office boutiques numbered?
After Schroders acquired Sandaire last month, we examine whether smaller family offices are being squeezed out.
10/19/2020
Wealthy French Snap Up London Luxury Homes as Chinese Step Back
Sterling weakness from Brexit encourages continental buyers
10/16/2020
Showing vulnerability is key, despite how hard it is
The power of vulnerability, though, is much bigger than simply being a great team member.
10/16/2020
Future Market Dynamics Part 3 – data sharing, trust and a world of choice
Data can have the characteristics of a public good – it creates benefits for society as a whole and those benefits increase the more data is used and the more widely it is dispersed.
10/16/2020
Expect more adviser acquisitions soon says IWP
The feature looks at the firms resolutely focusing on growth despite the pandemic and asks several Financial Planners to share their tips for weathering the pandemic.
10/15/2020
Innovation vs. Transformation. Let’s get this right.
Digital transformation is, in simple terms, the corporate-led strategy for technology implementation to reach a certain point/scope/end value, hence with a set objective.
10/15/2020
What we’ve learned so far from the nextgen wannabes by Martin Whybrow
The other big question is how will the existing suppliers react?
10/15/2020
Guernsey’s market access update
Guernsey offers continuity, stability, and certainty - valuable commodities during such troubling times, commodities that are as attractive to principles of family offices as they are to managers of private capital.
10/15/2020
Ultra rich numbers up 9.5%; total wealth $35trn
In the Middle East, the number of ultra wealthy individuals grew 0.7% to 9,780 in 2019 with the total wealth of this population increasing by 1.9% to $1.55 trillion, the report said.
10/15/2020
How to relocate your business to Spain – what you need to know
A business such as a consultancy can operate just as easily on the Costa Del Sol as Blackpool. Xavier Nova on how to move your business from the UK to Spain