News Archive

By Gaspar d’Orey, CEO and co-founder of Zercatto   The stock market is complex, and can often seem alien to those who aren’t familiar with its more intricate workings...

Recent research has revealed that more than half of landlords are looking to expand their property portfolio in 2015...

Last week Alex Hope – an unauthorised investment trader – was found guilty of one charge of fraud at Southwark Crown Court...

Today’s Office for National Statistics figures report a fall in annual CPI inflation from 1% to 0...

2014 was a tumultuous year for markets. Not only did the FTSE All-share drop sharply in autumn, the end of the year brought research revealing that active managers had their worst year since at least 1989...

Marks and Spencer recently posted figures for Q3 2014 with food sales up by 0.1% and merchandise sales registering a fall of 5...

Investec Wealth & Investment (“IW&I”) has announced that Dr Tim May has been appointed to the IW&I Board as a non-executive director and a member of the remuneration and audit committees...

There are many reasons why you choose to let your property, but being a landlord is not without challenges and there is risk...

At Suite Properties we buy and sell properties as well as finance all manner of property transaction...

This week chancellor George Osborne gave his Autumn Statement in front of the House of Commons. The announcement to receive the most headlines was the reforming of the stamp duty system after 300 years...

The Mayor of London will invest £25m in tech start-ups through the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF), which this week announced its six partners who will bring the total of the fund up to around £80m...

Wealth management firm Coutts has launched its 2015 investment outlook named: ‘On and off the Beaten Track’...

West Berkshire Brewery (WBB) has announced that it is to raise £4m through a tax-efficient Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to build a new brewery, to cater for increased demand for its products...

This week the London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announced that it had completed the acquisition of the Frank Russell Company (Russell)...

Investment returns on UK Commercial Property grew by 20.1% in the year to October - the highest among the nine key asset classes - new research by Lloyds Bank Private Banking has revealed...

Woodford Investment Management, which has £8bn of assets under management and advice, has announced a number of senior appointments to strengthen its compliance and operations team...

By Gaspar d’Orey, CEO and co-founder of Zercatto   In news that will surprise almost no one who invests in the stock market, research from the Cass Business School at City University, London has found that UK fund management fees are skewed in the interests of fund managers...

By Johanna Kyrklund, Head of Multi-Asset Investments at Schroders • The US continues to lead the recovery but growth momentum elsewhere is weak...

True Potential has been ranked as the fastest growing financial and technology services company headquartered outside London in the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 50...

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have signed a capital markets agreement that supports African companies seeking dual listings in London and Lagos...