07/20/2023
Treasury Market Commentary
This contrasts heavily with the US inflationary picture where figures are heading in the right direction.
Comment, Analysis & Research
07/19/2023
The best precious metals advisers for high-net-worth individuals in 2023
Welcome to the Spear’s ranking of the best precious metals advisers for high-net-worth-individuals in the UK
07/19/2023
HSBC announces two year research fellowship in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre
These areas of interest aim to also build upon the findings of the HSBC Life +Factor Study, completed in 2021 and 2022, by the life insurance business of the HSBC Group.
07/18/2023
Independent French asset manager finalises Mandarine Gestion deal
LFPI plans to merge newly acquired boutique with previous acquisition Meerschaert AM.
07/18/2023
A third of UK Financial Services Directors sit on at least four boards, as investors raise concerns of overboarding
The EY Boardroom Monitor charts the profile, experience, training and skillsets of board directors across the MSCI European Financials Index and is supplemented with a sentiment polling survey of 300 European financial services investors.
07/17/2023
More than a third of people struggling to afford mortgage or rent payments as costs spike
Indeed, 27% of people reported that their rent or mortgage costs had caused their cost of living to increase compared to just a month ago.
07/17/2023
Interest rate rises drive biggest postwar fall in UK household wealth
Tighter monetary policy could have benefits for younger people, says think-tank
07/17/2023
The Beautiful Life
After a long, successful marketing career working for the likes of Coca Cola and Unilever, Namrata Kamdar was ready for a break.
07/17/2023
Half of Europe’s asset managers yet to achieve 40% female representation on boards
Though boardrooms have ‘visibly evolved’, according to EY Investors Boardroom Monitor
07/14/2023
The future of compute
Software on its own isn’t going to power us into a greener future – we need hardware capable of driving our age of unparalleled innovation forward, even as it lessens the environmental cost.
07/14/2023
Schroders quantifies the effects of human capital management enhancing investment process
This framework allows active managers like us to gain greater insights into companies within our investment universe.
07/14/2023
Credit Suisse Collapse Taints Swiss Finance Job Prospects
Some 44 percent think «real role models on the executive floors» are what’s needed to improve the industry's reputation.
07/13/2023
Tech enters new arms race as Nvidia ponders investment and CMA reconsiders Microsoft/Activision deal
As such, having it controlled by one industry players was never going to work and thus having anchor investors helps to alleviate that problem.
07/13/2023
What’s behind the slump at Ruffer?
The capital preservation fund famously made money in the 2008 financial crisis, but a ‘disappointing’ period has seen shares slide more than 10% in the past two months.
07/13/2023
Scramble to bring down inflation begins to bite on UK economy
The UK economy has done well to avoid a recession to date, but how long this can continue when rates are expected to reach 6% and beyond remains to be seen.
07/12/2023
Baillie Gifford axes British Smaller Companies fund
The strategy was closed on 27 June after heavy outflows and poor performance over the past year.
07/12/2023
Citi banker not joining Spain's Naturgy as CEO, sources say
Unlike the Anglo-Saxon corporate governance model, the main executive at big Spanish companies is the chair, who is in charge of the company's strategy, while the CEO is tasked with overseeing daily business decisions.
07/11/2023
The foundations of a real estate revival?
Yet limited supply and investment into the net zero transition are providing both support and opportunities.
07/11/2023
Government seeks to help savers understand pension income choices, eight years on from freedoms
The government have not gone as far to propose exactly what products and services should be offered by providers but are intonating a framework to work from to improve the market.
07/11/2023
UK banks face dropping deposits
In May, households withdrew £4.6bn from banks and building societies. Barbara Pianese reports.