A month after taking over the Artemis UK Select Fund, Ed Legget explains a (subtle) change in style; and gives his outlook for 2016.
Jupiter assets hit £36bn as it readies fund launches
Jupiter Asset Management has reached £35.7bn in assets under management after seeing £2.1bn in net mutual fund inflows in 2015. The asset manager’s results for 2015, released today, show assets rose from £31.9bn at the end of 2014. The firm saw net inflows of £2.1bn to its mutual funds, up from £1.4bn in 2014. The […]
Intrinsic bids for Tenet as Aviva eyes mortgage arm
Old Mutual Wealth-owned network Intrinsic has made a “non-binding” offer for Tenet as part of a possible break-up of the business, Money Marketing understands. It is believed Aviva – which already owns a 47 per cent stake in Tenet – has also tabled a bid specifically focused on TenetLime, the network’s mortgage and protection business. The […]
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Rewriting the freedoms: Labour eyes regulation to strangle Osborne’s pension reforms
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party looks set to roll back key facets of the pension freedoms if it wins power in the 2020 general election. This week saw the long-awaited arrival of the Independent Review of Retirement Income from Cass Business School’s Professor David Blake, commissioned by former Labour shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves almost […]
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Off target: Pressure grows on FCA over advice due diligence scrutiny
The FCA is facing pressure to ramp up its efforts to investigate advisers’ due diligence processes after almost two years of work culminated in a report just six pages long. The regulator published the findings of a long-awaited thematic review last week which revealed concerns advisers may be failing to adequately perform checks on the platforms […]
The decumulation challenge: why pension reforms mean added risks – as well as opportunities
Income drawdown has become an attractive proposition. But adopting a ‘decumulation’ strategy also carries risks. What are the risks advisers need to be aware of? Read the decumulation challenge. Click here to read full article
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FSCS declares Lifetime Sipp Company in default
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has today declared The Lifetime Sipp Company in default. Lifetime Sipp was placed into administration in March 2018 and later went into liquidation on the 2 April 2019. The complexity of claims related Lifetime Sipp’s books and led to the FSCS having to spend a lot of time making detailed […]
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Alan Lakey: Action needed on new wave of dubious cold callers
Most of us have been plagued by unsolicited emails, texts, calls and unsavoury adverts trying to persuade us to claim for payment protection insurance or road accidents that never happened. Now claims managers have fallen under the auspices of FCA regulation and are shortly to lose their golden PPI egg, they are desperately searching for […]
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Alistair Cunningham: Are the wrong people being pushed out of DB transfer advice?
I am conscious I have been a pessimistic voice on the topic of defined benefit transfers, but I find the recent drop in the number of them as puzzling and concerning as the rise that came before it. There are many who say it is natural for the demand to reduce because those who should […]