Living With Dementia June 8, 2018 In the UK, there are 850,000 people living with some form of dementia. With an ageing population, those numbers are set to rise to 1 million by 2025 and 2 million by 2051. Although there is no cure for dementia at the moment, there is much that can be done to enable people living with [...]
All eyes on The Amazon June 8, 2018 All Eyes on the Amazon has been awarded £300,000in funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. This funding will save one million hectares of Brazilian Amazon rainforest through an innovative training programme for local forest ranger teams. This will allow them to use drones, smartphones, and satellite-based monitoring systems to collect images, maps, and stories [...]
Greener, healthier Cities June 8, 2018 Charity Trees for Cities has announced the beginnings of new woodland in Little France Park in Edinburgh thanks to £300,000 in funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. This funding will enable Trees for Cities, the only urban tree-planting charity that operates across the UK, to achieve its goal of planting one million trees by [...]
Supporting Green Entrepreneurs June 8, 2018 Green-minded entrepreneurs and sustainable start-ups from all over the world are set to take on this year's Postcode Lottery Green Challenge. The annual, international competition gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch for a share of €1 Million (£891,000) to help bring their climate change tackling business idea to life. Now in its 12th year, Postcode [...]
May’s most widely bought and sold funds June 8, 2018 | City Talk Artemis Global Income remained a popular choice for exposure to high yielding global stocks among Charles Stanley Direct customers in May, while Fundsmith Equity was the most widely-purchased global equity fund, beating another regular favourite Lindsell Train Global Equity. In the Asia ex-Japan sector Invesco Perpetual Asian outstripped the perennially popularStewart Asia Pacific Leaders in [...]
Revolut wants to be the next Robinhood, promising commission-free stock trading as it hits 2m users June 7, 2018 Challenger banking app Revolut has reached 2m registered users, as it prepares to launch a commission-free stock trading feature and pushes back its journey across the pond. The new feature will allow users to explore and invest in UK and US listed companies, as well as other instruments such as exchange traded funds and options. [...]
Revealed: The 15 best employers in Britain for work-life balance, as rated by staff June 7, 2018 Dealing with millions of busy commuters might not sound like the dream job, but according to a new study workers at Transport for London (TfL) are the most content with their work-life balance. The rankings, compiled by job site Indeed, showed that TfL had a better “staff first” mentality than any other company in the [...]
Hold tight when volatility strikes June 6, 2018 | City Talk Ouch! At the end of March the FTSE 100 had its worst day since the end of 2016. The rally since then, however, demonstrates that you should fight the urge to sell during these short pullbacks. Bull markets die with a whimper, not a bang. Big bounces usually follow sudden selloffs. This was classic correction-type [...]
Fintech unicorn Transferwise partners with first major European bank BPCE, gaining 15.1m new customers June 4, 2018 Out with the old and in with the new: digital money transfer service Transferwise has partnered with Banques Populaires’ and Caisses d’Espargne (BPCE), France’s second largest bank, to integrate its API directly into BPCE’s banking apps. Set to go live at the beginning of 2019, the partnership between Groupe BPCE, its international banking arm Natixis [...]
The top and bottom performing investment funds in May June 4, 2018 | City Talk “Sell in May and go away” advises the well-known City adage, which also suggests returning to the market after “St Leger Day”. This is the date in September when the horse race of that name is run and, traditionally, when the summer lull in trading is over. It bears little relevance in the modern era [...]
