
Bleak outlook for the UK economy
The Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates at 3.75 per cent suggests a weak outlook for the UK economy, economists have said.

The Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates at 3.75 per cent suggests a weak outlook for the UK economy, economists have said.

d in defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

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We all know that past performance is no guide to the future, yet investors often have little else on which to base allocation decisions than examining fund managers’ track records.

Europe has become the destination of choice for US private asset managers battling to find a place in their own saturated market, yet these prospective pilgrims face an uphill battle in complying with stringent regulations on foreign shores.

Private markets assets managed on behalf of insurers have more than doubled in the past five years, according to research by Clearwater Analytics.

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BlackRock has added to its Long Term Asset Fund (LTAF) range with the launch of a Diversified Alternative Strategies vehicle seeded by its own defined contribution (DC) scheme and that of another unnamed global financial services firm.

Ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the resulting economic fallout is driving investors to seek defensive and liquid positions in their portfolios, seeing money market inflows surge.

Ever since MiFID II outlawed bundling research costs with other brokerage services in 2018, asset managers across the European Union and UK have seen research budgets slide, but a new report shows they are now lagging their US counterparts by as much as 500 per cent.