What’s happening
Kames Capital: Chancellor could end fiscal austerity to prevent the undermining of Sterling
Kames Capital: BoE’s bond buying leads to material divergence between “ins and outs”
All change: could a move towards mutual models steady our course?
Discontent with the current status quo across the political and economic environments has been rising for some time and nowhere was it more evident than in the result of the EU referendum. The vote to leave was very telling about the divisions that exist in British society; divisions that are underpinned by a blending of the political, social and economic.
Generation Austerity: Brexit and Beyond
Kames Capital: “Remarkable” jump in duration for index-linked gilts post-Brexit
When UK fixed income yields are down, where to turn?
2 mins with… Katharine Photiou, Head of Workplace Savings – Product & Proposition, Legal and General Investment Management
In this 2 minutes with segment, we grill Katharine Photiou, Head of Workplace Savings, Product and Proposition at Legal and General Investment Management and a panellist at the recent MRM event on the role of the workplace in closing the savings gap.
One week of markets in one minute: Central bank jitters, nukes, and sliding shares
A series of key meetings for central banks this week – including the monthly update from the European Central Bank – combined with weak economic data, panic over North Korea’s nuclear test, and struggling commodity stocks to push markets into the red for the week.
Kames Capital warns of risks from ‘overbought’ EM debt as Fed turns hawkish
Kames strengthens its High Yield Team with further recruit
Closing the savings gap: a big ask for any industry
It is widely believed that there is a savings gap in the UK, with respected firms voicing concerns that the general population faces hardship in retirement by failing to make adequate savings provision.
To explore this issue, MRM gathered together a group of key experts from across the industry, who considered the role of the workplace in improving this state of affairs together with the industry’s ability to meet this growing crisis.