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Pension, ISA or cash: Which is the quickest way to get to £120,000?

Saving through a pension could get you there eight years more quickly than stocks and shares.

‘This is not a short term blip’, says Royal London’s AAA-rated Paola Binns

Paola Binns discusses the strong performance of her short-dated bonds funds.

Finserve Appoints Spring Capital To Distribute Industry's Longest Running Active Global Defence Fund

Independent funds distributor to market the Finserve Global Security Fund, the UK and Europe’s first actively managed global defence fund, as interest in defence, cybersecurity and space intensifies

Beat Blue Monday by taking control of your finances and your future

Instead of letting Blue Monday take hold, Quilter Invest is urging people to take small, practical steps to regain control of their finances to beat the blues and set themselves up confidently for the year ahead.

UK headquartered Oxbow Partners launches in New York

Alongside this, the firm’s market intelligence team offers unique analysis into the UK market and global reinsurance.

Bank of England alarm as hedge fund gilt bets hit £100bn

Sudden economic or financial shock risks triggering ‘fire sales’ in UK bonds, officials warn

Hohn Breaks Citadel’s Record With $18.9 Billion Trading Profit

Hohn’s equity-focused TCI Fund Management made $18.9 billion, according to estimates by finance firm Edmond de Rothschild.

Morningstar launches “first” pure-play GenAI index

The index aims to address a gap in existing benchmarks, which usually overlook private companies despite their role in GenAI development.

“Fomo” keeps global institutions invested for 2026: Natixis survey

Equities remain favoured across regions despite high valuations.

Asset managers face scale vs substance dilemma: SocGen

For fund selectors, the investment universe is getting harder to navigate.

State Street Completes First Eurex Repo Trade for MN

State Street can now enable the buy-side to access the liquidity benefits of clearing, without some of the onerous onboarding, operational, and custodial requirements of a direct membership of a Central Securities Depository.

Track to the Future with Janus Henderson’s Pat Sanderson: Clients know they can’t miss next leg of tech evolution

Janus Henderson Investors’ Pat Sanderson on why his focus this year will be on tech, smaller companies, fixed income… and Hyrox

UK government doubles down on cash ISA changes in response to concerns

Dame Meg Hillier said she remained convinced the move would not drive cultural change in the UK

Vanguard launches UK investor choice pilot

Under the pilot, the selected policies will determine how investors’ shares of participating funds vote on shareholder matters.

Buybacks in the UK are increasingly popular. Here’s how they could be better.

Share buybacks can benefit investors, but UK firms are at a competitive disadvantage compared with those in the US.

KBC Group: KBC completes the acquisition of 365.bank, strengthening its position in Slovakia

The total consideration paid for the 98.45% stake in 365.bank is EUR 708 million, reflecting closing adjustments.

Swissquote reache s a pre -tax profit close to CHF 420 million in 2025

The most significant exceptional item is the revaluation of Swissquote’s original 50% stake in Yuh following the acquisition of the remaining 50% .

EBRD invests record €16.8 billion in 2025

The Bank financed 640 projects over the course of the year, with 75 per cent of investments in the private sector, equating to €12.7 billion in private-sector investment.

InvestEU: UniCredit and EIF unlock up to €890 million to accelerate SME growth in CEE

The new €445 million guarantee increases and extends the InvestEU uncapped guarantee umbrella launched in 2023, making it one of the EIF's largest InvestEU transactions.

Men’s median pension wealth more than double that of women’s

Pension wealth generally increased with age

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