If I said to you ‘mutuals – great! We need more of them’, the average person might not know what I was talking about. But if I asked ‘have you ever had a financial product with a building society or shopped in your local Co-op or John Lewis?’ then we might be on more familiar territory.
London, 1st December: Nava Finance Limited, which is set to launch a new consumer lending platform in early 2017, has…
While it might still be early days for Philip Hammond in his role as Chancellor, the post-Brexit climate has made sure he hasn’t had the smoothest of starts.
Following the launch of MRM’s new report “Generation Austerity: Brexit and beyond”, we put MRM Consultant and author of the report, Sophie Robson, under the spotlight.
*This is a role only suited to somebody with excellent writing skills.* Do you tweet first thing in the morning and…
Whipsawing stocks, tumbling commodity prices and a sell-off in government bond markets meant October was anything but quiet. Brexit, and…
Shauna Bevan is joining RiverPeak Wealth, as Head of Investment Advisory and a senior member of its Investment Committee.
Party conference season is over for another year (with the exception of the SNP annual conference which follows later). With MRM having attended both main party conferences, and monitored events at others, what’s the current state of play in British politics at the moment? Our Public Affairs Consultant Jansev Jemal reports back.
This time last year, I was writing about Cameron’s clever attempt to move the Conservative Party into the centre ground of politics, left wide open by Labour’s shift to the left. Yet, somehow, the policies brought forward by Cameron and Osborne never really lived up to the promise. Prioritising the elimination of the deficit, harsh Tory cuts particularly from the welfare budget and local government – were seen to hit those most in need. Not only did they fail to eliminate the deficit, but people did not feel that ‘we’re in this together’. Twelve months on, the Tories have a new leader, and Britain its second female Prime Minister. How would she position the party? Was it to be continuity or a departure from the Cameron and Osborne era?
As another conference season draws to a close for the Labour Party, many questions remain about its future. Saturday saw the re-election of leader Jeremy Corbyn, with a marginally larger mandate than the first time around. But the result showed just how divided the party is.
Bravura Solutions has strengthened its UK team with the hire of Freddie Findlater as Marketing Manager for EMEA.
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.