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FCA retirement outcomes review - commentary from Jeanette Makings, Close Brothers

“Individuals need to be given the tools and the confidence to make both comparative choices between providers and evaluate their existing provider."

Blockchain Tech set to “Overthrow” Current Banking System: ABM AMRO Exec

“We created banking as a service solution."

Auto-enrollment ‘not the answer’ to SE pension crisis: Old Mutual Wealth

The IPSE report, entitle How to solve the self-employed pensions crisis highlighted a number of areas of concern relating to retirement planning and savings for self-employed individuals in the UK.

Clearer, quicker, tougher: UK Pensions Regulator bares its teeth

Deficits in defined benefit pension plans remain front-page news — particularly in the wake of recent high-profile insolvencies. They are a critical issue for any M&A transaction as the Pensions Regulator expands its already extensive enforcemen

This is why Invesco's Barnett is backing life insurers

Mark Barnett, Invesco Perpetual's head of UK equities, highlights Aviva and Legal & General as winners in the life insurance sector

The £1 trillion pie: 5 things a new report tells us about wealth in Scotland

Wealth – the value of all assets in the economy, including pensions, property, possessions and savings – is rising as a proportion of the total economy, growing from 5 to 7 times Scottish GDP in just 12 years.

Russia central bank may need extra $1.6bn for a planned ‘bad bank’

The banking sector’s troubles have been blamed partly on excessive M&A activity by the banks and their former owners.

EU banking regulator calls City's Brexit plans 'inadequate'

EBA says banks cannot yet rely on transition period agreed in principle with Brussels

Value of UK private equity exits falls by more than 50 per cent in the first half of the year

The collapse in the value of UK exits came in the context of a wider European slowdown, although the UK was the worst performer.

Discontent grows in overseas territories over British rule

The Cayman Islands, in effect, is asking for what Bermuda already has.

Banker pay pushed higher 10 years after Lehman collapse

Surge in deals leads to poaching, bigger pay — and frustration among those losing out

Mercer's Annual Cost of Living Survey

According to Mercer’s 24th annual Cost of Living Survey, factors like instability of housing markets, low inflation, and fluctuating prices for goods and services are impacting the cost of doing business in various cities around the world.

Failure, guaranteed by Tim Price

The third impediment to performance is that professional fund managers and financial institutions have grown to the point that they have become the market.

Could banking with Facebook and Google become the future

Could big tech turn its sights on your banking next?

Central bankers warn of recession risk from 'debt trap' to global economy

The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, today announced separately a cut to the required reserve ratio for banks, in what economists interpreted as a bid to encourage banks to swap debt for equity as it tries to encourage lower

German asset managers call for 'unhindered access' to City post-Brexit

This comes after chancellor Philip Hammond accused the EU of attempting a land-grab of the Square Mile in his Mansion House address last week.

Let's have more heart for art.... by Penny Lovell

What many people don’t know is that this year is the 150th anniversary of his birth and the city that once rejected his brilliance is now mourning the loss of his architectural jewel.

Parting a rich fool and his money? Child’s play

The luxury-goods market with its rocketing prices tells us much about our class system

New tools will transform property asset management

Effective property asset management is more crucial than ever.

ESG Investing: The New Frontier for Investors

Sometimes referred to as “sustainable investing” or “ethical investing”, ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) investing is an umbrella term for those investments that, in addition to aiming for positive returns

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