Environmental funds are blaming poor data on holding companies for their inability to report on environmental impact as the industry’s methodology for measuring green credentials throws up mixed results.
After former tennis star and bankrupt Boris Becker and his wife Lilly announced their separation following nine years of marriage last week, barrister Nicholas Fairbank looks at what the ramifications are for his finances.
UK equities could be a beneficiary of Spanish and Italian political turmoil, despite investors playing down existential risk to the European Union from the peripheral economies.
The rather shocking news that broke earlier this week was that the number of DB pension transfers reached £20.8bn in 2017 prompting questions about where the money is ending up and whether many transfers are suitable.
Professional indemnity (PI) insurers are doing more than the Financial Conduct Authority to make the lives of IFAs providing defined benefit (DB) pension transfer advice difficult.
The Iberian country has undergone a turnaround in fortunes since the European debt crisis.
Rising interest rates and inflation have shifted the dividend opportunity in Europe to the financial and energy sector rather than traditional defensive stocks, said Thomas Buckingham, a London-based portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management.
High yield ETFs have a reputation for poor tracking difference, but 7IM senior portfolio manager Peter Sleep argues there are still ways for passive investors to access the asset class.
The end of the QE-led economic cycle means investors may need a more diversified portfolio to ensure outperformance as we enter a period of greater uncertainty, analysts have claimed.
The UK has imposed public company registers on its overseas territories to create transparency and prevent “financial skulduggery”, but an international tax expert says, if people want privacy, they will just move to jurisdictions that still offers it.
Asset managers may soon be able to use cutting-edge deep learning technology to gain a defensible competitive advantage, according to AI expert Nick Bostrom.
While some confusion in the industry exists, Malta’s incoming pension regulations are common sense and there is no need to panic, industry sources have said.
