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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Simplybiz adds new partner for DB transfers
Simplybiz says adding another partner will gives its members more choice and spread the workload among providers
Trump hits optimism over US equities, Lloyds study finds
Investors are shunning US equities as turmoil within President Trump’s administration continues, with sentiment towards the asset class dropping from 0.85 per cent to -2.54 per cent in the month to August. US equities fared almost as badly year on year, with the second biggest drop in sentiment of 13.06 percentage points, the Lloyds Private […]
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Building society to offer free financial planning to members
Nottingham Building Society is offering free financial advice to members as part of an extension of its reward scheme. The building society is promoting the free, face-to-face financial planning as part of a member reward scheme that will also to deliver cash back payments to select members and other benefits to more than 100,000 of […]