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The golden rules to retirement planning: Where there's a will there's a way

In the first of a new series of articles, we look at the best way to protect your and your family’s future.

Simplistic Consumer Duty commentaries mistake value for cheapest price

The new Consumer Duty is a watershed moment for financial services in the UK.

Ian Mattioli MBE receives honorary degree from University of Leicester

He received his Honorary Degree at the University’s graduation ceremony at De Montfort Hall on Tuesday 19 July 2022 in front of hundreds of graduating students and friends.

Supercar sales accelerate in the UK

Low-cost finance and a ‘you only live once’ attitude behind 19% rise in the likes of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Maseratis, say market analysts

First-time buyer prices and rents jump as mortgage costs up 22%

For prospective first-time buyers looking to save while renting, record rents are rising at the fastest rate ever recorded.

The Puritan Gift

With trillions of government debt around the world having recently traded on a negative yield, and with deposit rates still at zero or negative across the euro zone, the “new normal” increasingly feels like a 1930s-style

Co-op to cut 400 jobs because of 'tough trading environment'

The majority of the roles are based at its head office in Manchester

U.S. inflation hits 9% and Everything is fine right?

The US 10-year government bond yield fell 8 basis points, suggesting that the market believes the Fed is in control of inflation.

ECB plays catch-up as it ends era of negative rates

The European Central Bank raises rates by more than expected, while also unveiling the new anti-fragmentation tool, just in time as Italian political risk returns.

Risks in Europe finely balanced as ECB raises rates

Signs of market strain – notably widening spreads between German and Italian sovereign debt – had already triggered an emergency ECB meeting in June, and a new ‘anti-fragmentation’ tool was announced on 21 July.

Can private equity have their cake and eat it too?

One of the most-discussed topics within the space is around the democratisation of private assets.

Private equity - investing in uncertain times

Alternative investments - which include hedge funds and various types of private assets - are the right choice in the face of uncertainty.

Will heatwaves burn through energy resources?

They maintain their neutral view of US utilities, but highlight that utilities’ infrastructure investments will help support stable earnings growth for US utilities.

Opportunities arise as central banks yield to the inevitable

We examine the forces driving the new paradigm for fixed-income investors and the opportunities emerging.

How to inflation proof your retirement pot

The Bank of England expect the CPI rate to peak at 11% in the autumn but with the unpredictable nature of the war in Ukraine and continued energy price hikes it could climb higher than that.

What are companies telling us about recession risks?

Inflation is a concern for companies, so too recession. Indeed, the last time managements were talking this much about recession - they were in one.

Bringing inflation back to the 2% target, no ifs no buts − speech by Andrew Bailey

Given at the Mansion House Financial and Professional Services Dinner

New tides − speech by Nathanaël Benjamin

Given at UK Finance

Survival of the Fittest

The bailout of AIG was actually a bailout of the rest of Wall Street, as the company became a vessel through which public funds were used to make AIG’s powerful counterparties whole, thereby stemming the financial crisis.

Ukraine war hits Swiss asset management industry

The group has seen net outflows of client money of CHF1.1 billion from its investment management unit and CHF2.5 billion from its fund management services, it said on MondayExternal link.

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