Fairway Capital and Investec shine at Alfred Dunhill Padel Classic May 20, 2025 Hurlingham Club in west London enjoyed large crowds this month as the Alfred Dunhill Padel Classic saw Fairway Capital win the Team Championship and investment bank Investec win the Plate competition. The Fulham competition raised funds for Laureus Sport for Good, and saw the likes of Peter Crouch take part alongside Champions Cup rugby sponsors [...]
Champions Cup exclusive: YouTube to show Northampton vs Bordeaux final May 20, 2025 Northampton Saints’ attempt to win the European Champions Cup for the first time in 25 years against Bordeaux on Saturday is set to be made available free-to-air throughout the UK on YouTube and Welsh broadcaster S4C. City AM has learned that negotiations between UK rights holders Premier Sports and tournament organisers EPCR are at an [...]
Northampton Saints a Champions Cup tonic for English Premiership May 6, 2025 With Northampton Saints in the Investec Champions Cup final, the English Premiership has a representative for the first time since 2020. At the end of January former Investec Champions Cup winners Exeter Chiefs were dumped out of the competition without a win to their name, Premiership leaders and title favourites Bath were dumped out with [...]
Saints and Bordeaux prove Champions Cup magic remains May 5, 2025 Whether or not you are a betting person you only needed to have a gander at the bookmakers’ predictions for the Investec Champions Cup semi-finals to get a good read on how each of the two matches last weekend should have gone. The first semi-final of the weekend saw tournament favourites Leinster host English champions [...]
Investec Champions Cup huge for British and Irish Lions selection May 3, 2025 Not only is this a huge weekend for the Investec Champions Cup, but it is a mega couple of days for those British and Irish players hoping to get on the plane to Australia. With the squad to be announced next Thursday in London, the likes of Maro Itoje – unless head coach Andy Farrell [...]
Champions Cup prize money: Why profits in semis are shared May 2, 2025 As the Investec Champions Cup semi-finals get underway, why are the clubs involved not guaranteed all of the profits generated? Over the last couple of days the Uefa Champions League semi-finals have played out at London’s Emirates Stadium and Barcelona’s Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys. The final four teams are battling for prize money that could [...]
Jupiter: ‘Mixed update’ for asset manager amid market volatility April 24, 2025 Jupiter Fund Management saw assets fall by £1bn over the first three months of 2025, after funds were hit by investor withdrawals and market volatility. The stock price of the asset manager dipped two per cent this morning following the publication of what Investec described as “mixed” quarterly results. Analysts had been expecting Jupiter to [...]
Rugby: The Henry hype is far from a load of Pollocks, he’s class April 18, 2025 I did laugh to myself when I saw the abuse Northampton Saints star Henry Pollock got for his celebration during his side’s Investec Champions Cup victory over Castres last weekend. I thought: “What a load of bollocks!” The 20-year-old has a swagger about him, he reminds me of a cross between Lewis Moody and Lawrence [...]
Can Impax bounce back? April 17, 2025 Today, Impax Asset Management entered into an agreement with European giant BNP Paribas, where the asset manager will provide investment advisory services for one of its funds. But after hitting its lowest stock price in eight years earlier this month, analysts are split on whether Impax Asset Management will be able to bounce back. Impax’s [...]
Premier Sports to show 400 rugby games per year after new deal April 17, 2025 Premier Sports is set to show 400 rugby games per season after agreeing a new deal to broadcast the United Rugby Championship (URC). The agreement, which will last four years and take the Irish challenger brand through until 2029, will see the multi-national URC broadcast on a dedicated Premier Sports Rugby channel alongside the likes [...]