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Investment and innovation: the route forward for financial services firms

Investment and innovation: the route forward for financial services firms

By Tim FitzGerald, UK Banking & Financial Services Sales Manager, InterSystems The number of critical challenges facing financial ..

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing forward the ESG agenda

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing forward the ESG agenda

By Marc Beattie, Chief Operating Officer at AHR Private Wealth, and Iain Ramsay, Chief Investment Officer at AHR Private Wealth The CO..

Why Businesses Must Invest in Cloud Technology Now

Why Businesses Must Invest in Cloud Technology Now

By Luke Mead, CEO of IT company LMS Group, which he founded when he was just 15 years old. LMS Group is a Microsoft Gold and Cisco Sel..

Gold Investing: Most Frequently Asked Questions

Gold Investing: Most Frequently Asked Questions

By Zoe Lyons, Executive Account Manager at Hatton Garden Metals. When it comes to investments, there are many options available to tho..

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How To Avoid the Risks of Poor Credit

How To Avoid the Risks of Poor Credit

Security Finance is an unsecured debt collecting agency that, via a network of affiliated companies, provides “secure” personal loans to c..

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Factors That Affect the Direction of the Stock Market

Factors That Affect the Direction of the Stock Market

A stock price represents the value of a particular stock of a particular entity, asset or another financial instrument. It is calculated by calculatin..

The era of passive investing is waning and what this means for you

The era of passive investing is waning and what this means for you

By Oleg Giberstein, Coinrule When discussing Fintech with bankers in the City of London it is not unusual to hear: “Normal people shou..

What Is A Hedge Fund

What Is A Hedge Fund

What exactly is a hedge fund? A hedge fund, also called a venture capital fund, is an unregulated investment fund which can make exten..

Alt data – the perfect solution for investors plagued by market volatility?

Alt data – the perfect solution for investors plagued by market volatility?

 By Omri Orgad, Managing Director, Luminati Networks Traders, investment firms and hedge funds looking to maximise their stock market ..

The impact of a recession on your pension

The impact of a recession on your pension

By James Turner, Director at Turner Litte. The stock market is beginning to show signs of life as measures introduced to help business..

At Europe’s big banks, women make some gains despite Rose exit

At Europe’s big banks, women make some gains despite Rose exit

By Martin Soderberg, partner at SPEAR Capital. An event of historic significance passed largely unnoticed in the world’s media recentl..

Bridgepoint Development Capital to take minority growth capital investment in Reassured

Bridgepoint Development Capital to take minority growth capital investment in Reassured

Reassured, one of the UK’s biggest life insurance brokers specialising in finding people life insurance cover, has agreed today an und..

How millennials can get ahead with their money

How millennials can get ahead with their money

By Granville Turner, Turner Little Millennials are often painted as globe-trotting creatures that spend more money on avocadoes than t..

Private equity firms hungry for investment opportunities, but business owners must be cautious

Private equity firms hungry for investment opportunities, but business owners must be cautious

  With startling figures emerging about the contraction of the UK economy as a result of the lockdown implemented to limit Covid-..

The emerging world of cryptocurrency

The emerging world of cryptocurrency

By James Turner, Director, Turner Little  As the name suggests, cryptocurrencies are an emerging currency based on cryptography. Bitco..

Managing A Bullish Market

Managing A Bullish Market

By Ewan Rosie, Head of Advice, Cooper Parry Wealth. COVID 19 has transformed the way businesses work with their customers and their em..

5 Reasons why women need to get into property investing

5 Reasons why women need to get into property investing

By Bronwen Vearncombe, Director of Property Investing Foundation. Property investing has changed my life completely.  Not only have I ..

The UK Care Home Market: An Economically Viable Investment Opportunity

The UK Care Home Market: An Economically Viable Investment Opportunity

By Silas Campbell at Blueleaf Forget crypto currency, stocks and bonds – the care home market is arguably the most up and coming..

Top Tips For Protecting Your Assets In 2020

Top Tips For Protecting Your Assets In 2020

How often do you think about how you can make more money versus how you can protect what you’ve already got?  Essentially, anyone with..

Battling uncertainty is the key to property investment success

Battling uncertainty is the key to property investment success

By Javed Khattak As we draw the the end of 2019, the property market has shown clear signs of slowing down, leading many investors to ..

Invest in data management now and reap the rewards sooner than later

Invest in data management now and reap the rewards sooner than later

By Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise Every business today relies on data more than ever before, which can only be a good thing as d..

Main Reasons Why Not Investing Is Riskier than Investing

Main Reasons Why Not Investing Is Riskier than Investing

By Cedric Vinclair, Managing Partner of Vinclair Investment Partners For a long time I, like most of our clients, thought that investi..

Why do projects need an IEO?

Why do projects need an IEO?

By Vladimir Prosvirkin, Managing Director, SHORTEX  The world of venture capital investment and cryptocurrency is changing every day. ..

YIELD OF DREAMS: WHY PROOF-OF-STAKE COULD DRIVE THE NEXT BIG WAVE IN CRYPTO INVESTING

YIELD OF DREAMS: WHY PROOF-OF-STAKE COULD DRIVE THE NEXT BIG WAVE IN CRYPTO INVESTING

By Andy Bryant, COO at bitFlyer Europe Bitcoin’s value methodology is still a black box. It undoubtedly has value, the question is wha..

Sustainable businesses: A £9 trillion investment opportunity

Sustainable businesses: A £9 trillion investment opportunity

By Sue Summers is CEO of Frontier Development Capital. ‘Sustainability’ is the business community’s latest buzzword. Sustainable pract..

Innovative Finance ISAs: the building blocks for good investment?

Innovative Finance ISAs: the building blocks for good investment?

Having launched in 2016, the Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) might be a relatively young product in the investment market, but it is on..

Brexit and the property market: what does the future hold?

Brexit and the property market: what does the future hold?

Adam James, head of marketing for We Buy Any House As the intricate web of Brexit and our departure from the EU continue to unravel, m..

Reasons to be cheerful by numbers… despite boring old Brexit

Reasons to be cheerful by numbers… despite boring old Brexit

Mark Brownridge, Non-Executive Director of Velocity Capital Advisors and Director General of the EIS Association, flashes the figures ..

The Evolving Venture Capital Landscape

The Evolving Venture Capital Landscape

Belinda Thomas, Partner at Triple Point Despite significant changes introduced over the past few years to the types of companies in wh..

Investing in property? Invest in art instead.

Investing in property? Invest in art instead.

Individual collectors spent $1.7 billion on paintings, research finds  40% of the world’s chief art collectors work in asset manageme..

What would a ‘No Deal’ outcome mean for the Midlands property sector?

What would a ‘No Deal’ outcome mean for the Midlands property sector?

 By Rick Gannon, expert serial Property Investor and HMO specialist ‘Brexit’ has been a buzz word for several years now, but its true ..

Foreign investment in Spain hits 5-year high, with Costa del Sol winning over second home buyers

Foreign investment in Spain hits 5-year high, with Costa del Sol winning over second home buyers

Foreign investors accounted for 68% of Spanish real estate investment in 2018 (Savills Aguirre Newman) Notable uptick in residential ..

Why has Birmingham led UK house price growth since the Brexit vote?

Why has Birmingham led UK house price growth since the Brexit vote?

Birmingham house prices up 16% since June 2016 (Hometrack) City centre population growth of 163% is 2nd fastest in UK (ONS) Extensive..

Top UK locations to invest in property during 2019

Top UK locations to invest in property during 2019

Reece Mennie, CEO of Hunter Jones 2018 has seen a drop in the London property market, leaving property investors to look elsewhere. Th..

5 tips for choosing the right investment advisor

5 tips for choosing the right investment advisor

With the recent news of the FCA’s second largest ever criminal prosecution for the £28 million investment fraud of Michael Nascumento[..

Governments intervene in almost half of all European venture capital investments

Governments intervene in almost half of all European venture capital investments

European  governments intervene in almost half of all venture capital investments for entrepreneurs, according to new research from em..

Mastek announces multi-million-pound IT investment plan for UK

Mastek announces multi-million-pound IT investment plan for UK

New Graduate Development Programme to inspire the next generation of digital natives. Mastek, a leading enterprise digital transformat..