By: Maisie Grice

Investment Reporter Maisie Grice is City AM’s investment reporter. She completed the Financial Time’s newsroom apprenticeship, working on specialist magazine Investors’ Chronicle and the UK news desk before joining FT Money as a personal finance reporter. She also worked as a regional news reporter at the Manchester Evening News, covering live events, crime and local politics.

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‘We do not accept the FCA’s characterisation’: Neil Woodford firm responds to watchdog

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Former star fund manager Neil Woodford’s comeback venture has hit back at the UK financial watchdog, arguing it ‘does not accept’ the regulator’s characterisation of the business after the FCA launched civil proceedings. W Four Point Zero FZE, which trades as W4.0 and is registered in the United Arab Emirates, rebuffed the Financial Conduct Authority’s [...]
‘Novel and extreme’: Analysts calls out SpaceX governance days before IPO

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Analysts and major institutional investors have expressed alarm over the corporate governance of SpaceX as its Wall Street debut creeps closer. The concerns from institutional investors, in particular public pension funds, over corporate governance at Elon Musk’s space tech company “run deep”, with firms in New York and California deeming the structure “novel and extreme”. [...]
OpenAI files to go public as the race between tech giants heats up

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OpenAI has confirmed plans for an initial public offering as it looks to beat fellow artificial intelligence giant Anthropic to Wall Street. The artificial intelligence firm, led by chief executive Sam Altman, submitted paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO on Monday. OpenAI did not disclose the size or terms of [...]

FCA seeks injunction against Neil Woodford over ‘unauthorised’ investment advice

June 8, 2026

The financial watchdog has launched civil proceedings against former star fund manager Neil Woodford and his comeback venture over allegedly providing unauthorised investment advice. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started civil proceedings against Woodford and W Four Point Zero FZE, which trades as W4.0. The FCA alleges that Woodford and W4.0, which is registered [...]
Does trouble lie ahead for South Korea’s star tech stocks?

June 8, 2026

Over the past 18 months, South Korea’s main stock market has burst back onto the global investment scene, led by a staggering recovery for the Kospi index. The country’s blue chip index had been plagued by the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol and companies trading at significantly lower valuations compared to emerging market peers [...]
Blackstone looks to shed $2bn of stakes in private investment funds

June 8, 2026

Blackstone is looking to offload over $2bn of stakes held in private investment funds, presenting a test of investors’ appetite for ageing private equity vehicles. The firm is promoting a so-called collateralised fund obligation (CFO), which will bundle more than $2bn (£1.5bn) of stakes in leveraged buyout funds into bonds to sell to investors and [...]
‘Unnecessary bureaucratic hoops’: Pension savers fall victim to outdated scam safeguards

June 8, 2026

The government’s pension scam safeguards have been called into question after only a minority of transfers flagged as potential scams were found to be genuinely high-risk, slowing savers’ transfer process. Of the 51,417 amber flags on pensions since November 2021, just 18 per cent were found to relate to high-risk investments or other flagged categories, [...]
Nvidia chief brushes off tech sell-off as a buying opportunity

June 8, 2026

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang brushed off a significant market wobble stoked by growing concerns surrounding AI, hailing the widespread sell-off as a buying opportunity for investors in a technology which is just “beginning”. Huang’s intervention came as Asian markets tumbled during Monday trading, following the Nasdaq’s 4.2 per cent plunge on Friday – its [...]
Food inflation: First signs of energy cost surge feed through to supermarket shelves as discounts fail to stem price growth

June 8, 2026

Supermarket food inflation has risen significantly for the first time this year, a City AM analysis has found, flashing an early warning sign that the surge in energy and freight costs triggered by war in Iran is reaching shelf prices in the UK. City AM reporters gather data on around 200 prices of products across [...]
Will the SpaceX IPO send retail investors into orbit?

June 5, 2026

SpaceX is preparing the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO in its anticipated listing later this month, with Elon Musk seeking to reserve as much as a quarter of the company’s $75bn float for individual investors. Musk reportedly wants ordinary investors cemented near the centre of the group’s ownership straight from blast [...]

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