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Willis Towers Watson calls for a step change in investor stewardship

Investment community should redouble its stewardship efforts

LEBC publishes Guide detailing practical steps Women can take to improve their Pensions lot

This is primarily the result of more women than men taking career breaks, taking part-time work and juggling care responsibilities with work

Use of AI in wealth management must be applied smartly; not simply for the sake of it, warns M-Files

A recent poll amongst 500 private wealth executives shows that AI represents both a major challenge and opportunity, with over a third (36 per cent) of respondents admitting they have struggled to capitalise on the technology.

Wealth management firm sets £1m charity target

Gaynor Rigby, Managing Partner at Equilibrium Asset Management, said: “Giving back is part of the very fabric of Equilibrium – we do a lot of work through the Equilibrium Foundation and always emphasise the importance of charity work to the te

Notre-Dame fire: Millions pledged to rebuild cathedral

The cause of the fire is not yet clear.

How just saving £50 a month will give your grandchild an £18,000 gift on their 18th birthday

It has risen from £4,260 to £4,368 while the adult Isa allowance remains at £20k

‘We blew it’: fintech gender pay gap worse than investment banks

Gender pay gap reports reveal how widespread the issue is on the frontier of finance

UK businesses stash cash as Brexit gloom deepens - Deloitte

This was up from 78 percent at the end of last year in the quarterly survey of 89 companies, including 15 in the FTSE 100 and 33 in the FTSE 250 share index, plus smaller firms and subsidiaries of major foreign companies.

Guernsey ‘continues to break new ground’ in awards win

Guernsey previously won the award in 2015.

The trillion dollar space race gathers pace - UBS

SpaceX is just one of several private companies at the forefront of this new private space economy

Europe’s private equity market reaches highest level in decade

The uplift was entirely driven by buyouts rather than exits

Younger Generations’ Environment Warning “Must Be Heeded”

The Chancellor set out to showcase the wealth of opportunities for greater cooperation between “Global Britain” and its international partners, and to highlight the world’s “most urgent challenges” – such as climate cha

Property boom boosts Germans' wealth - Bundesbank

This policy has long been criticised in the country for bringing down yields on fixed-income investments popular with local savers.

The luxury Easter eggs worth spending your money on

The trio come in dark, milk and white home-made chocolate lovingly crafted using Cameroon and Ecuador cocoa beans – little bites of heaven.

Lego’s modular approach can teach financial services a thing or two

It’s a story of revival and reinvention to inspire any business.

Qatar has no say in who runs Deutsche - foreign minister

“The question of who runs this or that institution is not a matter for Qatar directly or which Qatar decides upon.”

The bare-naked truth: how product innovation can help smash taboos

Sometimes the best way to make a highlight a serious issue is to do something big bold and brave.

Fine Wine beats hedge funds and art works as stable investment

The Report stated that while most alternatives performed negatively in 2018,

Banking survey shows culture change is an ongoing process

Employee perception of banks' culture, behaviour and competence has changed little in the past 12 months, showing that embedding cultural change will be an ongoing process for firms, an expert has said.

“People are starting to think there’s nothing for them in London”

“Sentiment in London is falling off a cliff,” says the managing consultant of a fixed income headhunting firm, speaking anonymously.

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