Industry
Amazon moves into healthcare with Buffett and JP Morgan
Amazon has announced plans to partner with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan to launch an independent company that will offer low-cost healthcare to the employees of all three companies, a move that has halted the January healthcare bull run on Wall Street.
PEOPLE MOVES: Metlife, Aviva and WH Ireland
WH Ireland appoints a chief operating officer from Brewin Dolphin, Aviva expands its emerging markets debt team and Metlife names a new head of its global employee benefits team.
Tax & Regulation | 30 Jan 18
‘Sophisticated’ client wins New Earth compensation bid
A client who lost £75,000 when he invested in a New Earth fund should be fully compensated by his adviser, the UK Ombudsman has ruled.
Appleby vs the BBC and Guardian – round 1 to the law firm
The law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers leak has successfully blocked an attempt by the BBC and Guardian newspaper to transfer the case to what could have been a more favourable court.
UK to review ‘complex’ inheritance tax
Chancellor Philip Hammond has written to the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) asking it to carry out a review into inheritance tax (IHT), which he said is “particularly complex” at present.