News Archive

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...

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High Speed 2 (HS2) is hugely controversial, but with high powered backing at the top echelon of government, it looks like it will be going ahead...

In recent weeks the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued several warnings and consultations affecting the investment world...

London coffee house Taylor St Baristas has announced its intentions to raise up to £3 million through the launch of the UK’s first crowdfunded ‘Coffee Bond’...

By Jade Fu, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment   This week Chinese authorities announced a major change to allow foreign investors access to China’s onshore (A-share) market...

Investors with strong balance sheets must take the opportunity to ‘show their bottle’; this is according to James Waterhouse, Director of dealconnections, a portal listing businesses for sale...

Today Challenger Bank Virgin Money priced its long-awaited Initial Public Offering (IPO) at 283p per share...

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) has expanded its CROCI (Cash Return on Capital Invested) suite of ‘real value’ investments with the addition of a large-cap UK fund...

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has announced that it will be introducing a new intraday auction for all SETS equities, the largest and most liquid shares traded on its markets...

By Mike Franklin, Chief Investment Strategist at Beaufort Securities   Since mid-May 2014, the FTSE 100 Index has fallen by around 10% to the 6,100 level...

British investors are becoming increasingly reliant on UK shares and bonds, new research shows.   Almost half (46%) said they have over 50% of their investment portfolio in UK shares and bonds, when questioned by fund manager Rplan...

There is a lack of farmland available to buy, according to Smiths Gore, with 10% less farmland marketed so far this year compared to 2013...

A business exchange website has recorded a 35.51% increase in active searches for UK businesses valued at £1 million during Q1 2014...

In a post-MMR environment where banks and building societies are increasingly reluctant to lend, the bridging finance industry has continued to flourish...

The UK’s most famous tropical garden - The Eden Project - is the latest in a line of big names to crowdfund for investment and has raised its target of £1...