Two minutes with Chris Tuite, Associate Director at MRM
MRM’s Chris Tuite on the importance of decoding financial jargon, getting his elbows out on public transport and sparring at the gym.
What’s happening
Kames Capital adds co-manager to Active Value Open Ended Fund
Thesis cuts exposure to UK and Japanese equities as caution on global growth builds
Legg Mason integrates Martin Currie Global Funds into its Global Fund range
Bite-sized predictions: What might the 2016 Budget mean for financial services?
Finding Budget speculation confusing? Not surprising given the plethora of announcements, hints and the occasional kite that chancellors like to fly in the run up to the Budget. Fear not, we’ve compiled a bite-sized review into what’s likely to be covered next week.
Beer & Bytes podcast ep #3: Is Slack making us Slack & Medium making us…nice??
Slack has taken a bit of flack recently for becoming a bit of a black hole for productivity yet it’s just…
Is Medium the friendliest social media platform on the Internet?
Over the years our social media attention spans (well, just attention spans really) have become progressively shorter. Let’s face it, a listicle with a decent smattering of gifs and memes is an infinitely more popular read than a long-read opinion article. There was a time in years gone by when long-reads ruled the roost, but this has steadily eroded, thanks in no doubt to the likes of Twitter and Vine.
Scottish Friendly calls for a Help to Save and Invest programme
Ahead of the budget Scottish Friendly calls on the Government to be bold and cut the 25% tax free lump sum to fund direct help for savers
SEI Study: More than half of schemes targeting the wrong benchmark for success
Months into pension reform – Security of income and access are key
Will Slack’s new video conferencing feature bring the financial sector closer to the cloud?
Messaging app Slack has just rolled out a beta version of native voice chat with video conferencing to follow which promises to rival Skype. Is it just a matter of time before the UK financial services industry embraces Slack?