10/19/2017
How Britain has behaved since pension freedoms
It’s not hard to understand why people with small pots have been taking the money as cash
Comment, Analysis & Research
10/18/2017
Millennial savers care most about the ethical impact of their investments
The values and attitudes of this tech-savvy demographic are different from those of previous generations.
10/18/2017
Investors Don’t Understand Commonly Used Risk Labels
Those private investors considering a buy & hold strategy may be wise to re-think.
10/18/2017
As savings crisis looms, employers failing to tackle employee knowledge gap
A third (33%) of UK employees are saving less than £50 a month, which includes one in five (20%) who admit to not saving anything at all.
10/18/2017
Standard Chartered is quietly emerging as one of the biggest banking recruiters of 2017
Harding spent the past four years at the Japanese bank as head of emerging markets macro sales, but left earlier this month for Standard Chartered.
10/18/2017
FCA reveals findings from its first Financial Lives Survey
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the results of its Financial Lives Survey 2017.
10/17/2017
Europe’s dirty secret - Resolving the legacy of non-performing loans
Work to address the NPL issue at a European level has increased over the last 12-18 months.
10/17/2017
Coutts Investment themes; Nikkei, IMF and Spain
The IMF often tends to lag other economic analysis and there were no real surprises in its report.
10/17/2017
Blockchain and payments: Lessons learned and future prospects
One of the most challenging aspects is to ensure that all the building blocks, including blockchain, can work together and with our legacy systems.
10/17/2017
Rathbone's comments on ONS consumer price inflation
Those savers with their capital predominantly held in cash will have seen its value depleted as the rate of inflation moves upwards.
10/17/2017
McKinsey highlights importance of LEIs - RESEARCH
This resulting easier counterparty identification will open the door to further automation and digitalization of financial and commercial transactions across the globe.
10/17/2017
Carney to raise rates in November to 'maintain credibility' - Smith & Williamson
Inflation should begin to moderate in the first half of 2018, as the impact of sterling depreciation following the Brexit vote drops out of the numbers.
10/17/2017
St. James’s Place – 'Stocks continue to rise, reaching new highs'
While developed market growth is reasonable but unexciting, more than 50% of the market return in 2017 has come from emerging markets
10/17/2017
Hedge funds up 1.43 per cent in September, says Preqin
Activist funds made gains of +2.73 per cent in September
10/17/2017
Speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, at the Investment Association Annual Dinner 2017
In 2016 those numbers were 53% for the US, 33% for European firms and 9% for Asian firms.
10/17/2017
Here are the best cities to claim your pension - RESEARCH
How much do you have to save for retirement?
10/16/2017
Profit with Principles? by Penny Lovell
More recently, though, there is an increasing confidence that counters the belief that you can’t make profit with principle.
10/16/2017
Morning Coffee: Why this 55-year-old Goldman exec spins decks. The 20-somethings deciding who hires you
While it’s easy to mock a man in his 50s spinning some tunes at night spots predominantly attended by Millennials, you can’t say that Solomon hasn’t done his research.
10/16/2017
Higher income households hit hardest by inflation over the last 20 years - RESEARCH
Wealthiest 10% of households have seen overall inflation of 64% since 1997, compared to 50.7% for typical households and 53.8% for lowest income families
10/16/2017
UK to remain Europe's premier fintech hub post-Brexit
London remains an attractive hub for talent and a dense cluster of financial institutions.