United Kingdom

Technology | 8 Jul 16

UK robo-advisers are ‘wired’ to lose money and most will go bust before acquiring the sizeable assets under management needed to survive, a scathing new report has warned.

Best Practice | 7 Jul 16

Despite 68% of UK financial advisers reporting more profitable operations this year compared with 2015, low growth in client funds is a potential threat to future profits.

Property | 7 Jul 16

Aberdeen Asset Management and LGIM have announced a 17% and 15% value cut on their respective commercial property funds, following suspensions on trading by the UK’s largest property funds.

Property | 6 Jul 16

Henderson Global Investors and Columbia Threadneedle have announced they have suspended all trading in their respective UK property authorised investment funds (Paifs) and feeder funds, the firms said on Wednesday.

Property | 5 Jul 16

The only thing markets like less than uncertainty is panic. Long lines of people clamouring to get their money out of an investment is never a good image.