Current executive pay structures both fail to incentivise performance and add to a growing reputational risk for all market participants, the Investment Association’s Executive Remuneration Working Group has said.
Humans have a remarkable capacity for adaption and the investment management sector is no different.
The active management industry will have to shrink substantially, Moody’s Investor Services argues in a new report on the growth of passive investments.
A month on from the UK’s decision to leave the EU it is clear the initial fallout has been both swift and severe.
A composite measure of UK output fell to an 87-month low largely on the back of ongoing uncertainty about Brexit, Markit announced on Friday.
Aberdeen has reduced the dilution adjustment on its UK Property Fund and its feeder unit on the back of slowing redemptions the firm said.
WH Ireland reported an operating loss of £1.7m for the six months to end May 2016 driven by lower transactional costs, expenses relating to an FCA investigation and ongoing one-off restructuring costs.
The ongoing technological revolution has levelled the financial services playing field globally argues Jaco van Tonder, head of advisory services at Investec Asset Management – and with that levelling comes both risk and opportunity.
At a roundtable in Edinburgh, Portfolio Adviser quizzed five leading wealth managers on everything from the issues that keep them awake at night to where they identify opportunity and value.
Fundsnetwork has added 25 investment trusts to its offering as a result of adviser demand, it said on Tuesday.
The sale of Everyday loans and the successful placing of a 33% stake in Secure Trust Bank have “substantially increased” the Arbuthnot’s financial resources and positioned it well for the post Brexit landscape the firm said on Tuesday.
A vote of confidence in the UK is how a number of commentators, including new prime minister, Theresa May referred to SoftBank’s bid for microchip manufacturer, ARM Holdings.
