What can unite the UK and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Pakistan and India? The answer, as all nerds know, is not football but tax, specifically the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), according to Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth partner Alex Ruffel and solicitor Luke Micallef-Trigona.
More confusing than US politics, Brexit and the global economy, millennials have been branded lazy, entitled and the generation that ruins everything. Yet unlocking the key to this enigmatic group is viewed as the holy grail for most companies.
Life companies based in the EU counting on the UK dependent territories to help them to continue servicing existing UK policyholders need to think again, warns Acuity Consulting’s Simon Willoughby.
If they don’t heed the stark warning from the European Commissions about the legal repercussions of Brexit, asset managers in the UK are at risk of being shut out of the European market, warns Brendan Adams, managing director, VAM Global Management Company.
Millennials have largely been left in the lurch by pension providers who assume they are too cash poor or disinterested to engage with investing for their future.
UK legislative changes have caused a fundamental shift in the types of pension products that can be offered by international finance centres, with the Jersey Pensions Association (JPA) promoting international savings plans as a solution.
UK prime minister Theresa May shocked many political observers when she promised a £20bn ($26.4bn, €22.8bn) funding boost for the National Health Service (NHS) by 2023 last weekend raising the question of how to pay for it.
The good times are rolling for UK financial advisers, at least, that is, according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent Data Bulletin.
With the 2018 World Cup underway, all eyes are on Russia. Having generated negative headlines in the international political arena, it is encouraging, and perhaps surprising, to see the ongoing scale of foreign investment in the country, says Elio Manca, managing director of ITI Funds.
The partnership between St James’s Place and Neil Woodford is unlikely to end any time soon, despite many discretionary fund managers and platforms dropping the star fund manager for underperformance.
The Royal Commission has shaken consumer confidence in Australia’s wealth market to its core. For Michael Ohanessian, chief executive of Aussie platform Praemium, the key question is: “So, how did we get here?”
The inclusion of 230-odd China A-shares was a hugely symbolic moment for investors in the region but the fund industry has failed to get ahead of the curve with most firms lacking dedicated teams of analysts or products to invest in the asset class.
