Debate: Should the Financial Conduct Authority ban exit fees on investment platforms? March 15, 2019 Should the Financial Conduct Authority ban exit fees on investment platforms? Alex Kovach, chief commercial officer at Interactive Investor, says YES. Consumers should be able to vote with their feet and switch investment platforms without the burden of crippling exit fees. As an industry, we should not be putting up barriers to switching – and the [...]
Trading on WTO terms would be no panacea for global Britain March 15, 2019 Despite the series of votes this week, a no-deal Brexit remains a real possibility. In fact, it is still the legal default unless a deal is struck or the EU agrees to extend Article 50. Many Brexiteers – 308 MPs, in fact – appear to think that this is the best Brexit option. Their assumption [...]
State-centric and uninspiring: The Spring Statement wasn’t much to get excited about March 15, 2019 Who has time to care about a Spring Statement when the unfolding Brexit process feels like watching a cross between Saw 3 and a monster truck rally? This has been a problem for two and a half years – the Brexit black hole has sucked time and resources away from almost every other area of [...]
Premier League betting tips: Liverpool strikers can profit fromCottagers’ leaky defence March 14, 2019 IT’S BEEN a near perfect week for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool. A potentially tricky fixture with Burnley in the Premier League last Sunday was taken care of without too much bother and then a brilliant away performance in Munich saw the Reds through to the Champions League quarter-finals. While they are by no means firing [...]
FA Cup betting tips: United to bounce back from defeat by Arsenal with win over Wolves March 14, 2019 WITH London sides winning four of the previous five FA Cup finals, it really is about time the rest of the country started pulling its weight and giving fans outside of the M25 a reason to cheer. Only Manchester United have disrupted the tide in that time, lifting the trophy in 2016 thanks to Jesse [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Hard to see past O’Brien’s Sir Erec in Triumph March 14, 2019 WHEN I first became passionate about the Cheltenham Festival back in the late 1980s, the Triumph Hurdle (1.30pm) was a 20-plus runner wide-open cavalry charge packed full of no-hopers. Now, the introduction of the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle earlier in the meeting, means this race has a very different feel. Those not good enough to [...]
Horse racing betting tips: DERRINROSS CAN GRIND OUT VICTORY IN ALBERT BARTLETT March 14, 2019 THIS will be the 15th running of the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (2.50pm) and the one thing I have learnt over the years is that it tends not to go to the lightly-raced flashy types. Such a brutal test of stamina comes very early on in the career of some of these novices and the [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Presenting Percy can land the Gold Cup March 14, 2019 THERE is nothing bigger in National Hunt racing than the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup, which is being run this year for £625,000. A gruelling race run over 3m2f with 22 fences to jump, it is the ultimate test of a National Hunt horse and the reason why any jockey, trainer or owner gets into the [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Keep close Eye on last year’s winner Prezien March 14, 2019 IF YOU haven’t backed a winner by the time the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase (4.50pm) comes around, it may be time to draw stumps before this 20-runner two-mile cavalry charge. Finding the most likely contenders is just one part of the job as you tend to need plenty ofl uck in-running to avoid trouble. [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Skelton looks set to strike again with Ch’tibello March 14, 2019 FRIDAY at Cheltenham is probably the trickiest day of the week for punters. With three puzzling handicaps, a hunter chase and an ultra-competitive Gold Cup, winners will be hard to come by. One man with proven form on the final day of the Festival is Dan Skelton. He’s landed two of the last three renewals [...]