Tax concerns drive wealth manager clients to increase ISA savings
Tax optimisation drove wealth management clients to top up their ISAs by £1.6bn in the first half of the year, according to a report by SEI Wealth Platform.
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Rathbones hires Brewin man for Edinburgh office
Rathbone Investment Management has appointed Nick Liddle as an investment director in its Edinburgh office.
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PA ANALYSIS: BP profits battered, should oil investors expect more pain?
The sharp fall in BP’s profit was expected, but should investors be expecting more of the same going forward?
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UK interest rate rise due in November but it should be August – F&C
The first UK interest rate rise is likely to arrive in November, says F&C’s Steven Bell, but cannot come soon enough.
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PA ANALYSIS: Are UK banks becoming income seekers’ best bet?
A wave of personnel changes, restructurings and policy shifts has swept the UK banking sector in 2015, but should income investors be rekindling their interest?
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PA ANALYSIS: Barclays jettisons Jenkins to accelerate pace
Barclays’s decision to jettison CEO Antony Jenkins indicates that as the bank moves on with its restructuring process, time is of the essence.
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PA ANALYSIS: Has the market just looked down?
In the old Road Runner cartoons, Wile E. Coyote spent a lot of time running on air. Having run off a bridge or a cliff, he would remain remarkably buoyant for a while. Then he would look down and, of course, plummet to the floor.
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US payroll numbers trounce forecasts
United States non-farm payrolls were reported to be 280,000 up in May by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics.
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Hawskmoor targets South West dominance as Taunton office opens
Hawksmoor has set its sights on being the “biggest South West investment manager” with a triple recruitment for a new Taunton office.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is the Megacap M&A season heading south already?
BHP Billiton’s spin off and listing of South32 fell rather flat on Monday, as its shares traded at the lower end of analyst expectations, giving the newly minted firm a market cap around $8.7bn.
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Alliance trust buys brewin dolphin execution only business for £14m
Alliance Trust has bought Brewin Dolphin’s execution-only Stocktrade business for £14m pounds in a bid to further strengthen its position as a platform provider.
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Inflation to hit 2% in two years, but productivity remains key – bo e
Inflation should return to its 2% target within the next two years, the Bank of England said on Wednesday, but labour productivity remains the key uncertainty, as it downgraded its forecast for UK GDP growth from 2.9% for 2015, to 2.5%.
