The UK’s largest open-ended property funds gated flows or implemented exit charges to prevent a post-Brexit run on the asset class earlier this month, trapping £15bn ($19.8bn, €18bn) of investors’ cash and casting a cloud over the City. But many flexible investors were able to see the warning signs and evade the net, says David…
The ongoing technological revolution has levelled the financial services playing field globally, argues Jaco van Tonder, head of advisory services at Investec Asset Management – and with that levelling comes both risk and opportunity.
There has been no shortage of doom and gloom despite the outbreak of something resembling summer in the United Kingdom this week.
The Bank of England has chosen to keep its powder dry by backing off from the interest rate cut that had been hinted at, but is this a U-turn or just minor detour?
Falls in Apple’s share price in recent months have served to highlight its powerful influence over the tech sector’s performance – and the consequences of the Ucits’ 10% weighting cap.
Market expectations are pricing in a 77% chance of a rate cut when the MPC meets on Thursday; there were similar odds on France beating Portugal in last Sunday’s Euro 2016 final.
In this, the second of a series of articles looking at wealth and succession planning from a legal perspective, Edward Stone, partner at Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth, follows a typical modern family through various key decisions.
In its latest Flow Show note, Bank of America Merrill Lynch pointed out that, at current rates, it would take you 1,387 years to double your savings in a 1-year German deposit account.
International pensions such as Qrops are certainly going to feel the economic impacts of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, but there will also be many other effects on these products, says David White, a founding partner at The QROPS Bureau.
As Brexit fatigue tightens its grip on us all, particularly those who have been writing about it for a living, and the US gets going with its election, things have been suspiciously quiet on the China front.
The only thing markets like less than uncertainty is panic. Long lines of people clamouring to get their money out of an investment is never a good image.
The real possibility that rules surrounding offshore pension transfers could change following the outcome of the UK’s EU referendum means advisers considering such a move for their clients may be wise not to delay, says Darren Jones, head of technical sales for Old Mutual International, part of Old Mutual Wealth.
