Two minutes with…Paul Thomas
You have just left the Daily Mail’s City desk to join MRM as a consultant – what was it like…
By Paul Thomas
What’s happening
R&M Solutions: Can the pensions crisis be solved with the Union Jack and national anthem?
A perennial challenge with DC pensions is low engagement. People in the UK simply don’t prioritise pensions. The reasons for…
By Niall Alexander
Kevin Russell, Proposition Director at SEI Wealth Platform, reacts to the recent platform study from the FCA:
“This provisional paper emphasises just how crucial technology is to the success of platforms going forward in delivering good customer…
By Kevin Russell
Brexit and Heathrow – tricky take-off!
EU (Withdrawal Bill) passed Parliament debated Brexit on 11th June and the government won the vote by 319 to 303…
By Melanie Worthy
Brexit two years on: ‘Crunch time’ for UK equities as uncertainty reigns
UK equities could face a ‘crunch’ moment as the Brexit deadline approaches but experts still regard the market as attractive…
S&W’s Wells: Further slump in sterling could keep inflation above target for a protracted period
Thomas Wells, manager of the Smith & Williamson Global Inflation-Linked Bond Fund which was launched a year ago, looks at…
By Thomas Wells
World Cup winners and losers: The UK stocks to back and avoid ahead of England’s opening clash
If England has a good World Cup (reaching at least the quarter finals) we would expect the following stocks to…
By Mark Swain
Italian elections: Overblown concerns or more trouble to come for markets?
Italy has once again found itself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons recently, with the yield on its debt…
A summer of EU Withdrawal discontent
It continues to be a tortuous divorce from the EU, with a disgruntled Parliament breaking up for the Whitsun Recess…
By Melanie Worthy
MRM chooses BIRT as its charity of the year 2018
Estimates suggest that approximately 760,000 people in the UK are living with the long-term effects of a head injury. [1]…
By Phoebe Burrows
Customs union remains Brexit battleground
Parliament remains in battle on the vexed question of a customs union. Following the Lords’ vote to amend the Government’s…
By Melanie Worthy
WeWork and the Voodoo Economics of Silicon Valley
Almost every day in my email inbox arrive offering memoranda for new high yield bond issues. Mostly, these come from…
By Stephen Baines
