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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FTSE 100 Live: Index hits record as HSBC, St James’s stock rally

February 25, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. There’s a number of factors weighing on global markets at the moment, and yet the FTSE 100 was able to close Tuesday’s session unscathed. It came despite President Donald Trump’s new 10 per cent tariffs coming into effect, sending some jitters across global indexes. But [...]
High net-worth confidence slashed by tax changes

February 25, 2026

Wealthy Brits’ faith in the UK economy has eroded dramatically in the past six months, as a perfect storm of tax rises, sluggish growth and stubbornly high interest rates continues to eat away at sentiment among affluent households. According to a a regular study of wealthy UK residents, high-net-worth individuals’ overall confidence in the economy [...]
Retail investors become largest UK investment owners as wealth managers look elsewhere

February 24, 2026

Retail investors solidified their place as the largest group of investment trust owners last year, as wealth managers and institutional investors decreased their holdings. As of 2025, retail investors hold a combined £50.5bn, equivalent to a 37 per cent stake, according to the latest state of the nation report from Warhorse Partners. This was up [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks take a dip amid tariff turmoil; Oil price soars

February 24, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. The good old safety net of London’s blue-chip index strikes again. The week kicked off with more tariff drama after Saturday’s announcement from President Donald Trump of a sweeping 15 per cent levy across the US’ trading partners. As cool heads prevailed in government – [...]
Schroders chief executive vows to keep Cazenove Capital

February 23, 2026

Schroders’ chief executive has vowed that the company will retain its wealth management business following its £9.9bn takeover by US fund manager Nuveen. Richard Oldfield’s pledge comes after days of speculation surrounding the future of the wealth manager, driven by minimal detail on how it would be integrated into the business in its announcement just [...]
Trump’s tariff decisions send shockwaves through the markets

February 23, 2026

Global assets and markets have once more found themselves reeling from the aftershocks of Trump’s tariffs decision, after his weekend announcement sent investors scrambling. The US president announced a 15 per cent blanket tariff on Saturday in rebuttal to the Supreme Court striking down his signature economic policy. Bitcoin suffered a sharp selloff on Monday [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks jittery after Trump tariffs; Job vacancies fall

February 23, 2026

Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Tariffs are once more redefining market sentiment. Last Friday, a number of FTSE 100 stocks popped on the news President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ levies had been struck down by the US Supreme Court. It marked a major boost to global markets after the top [...]
Trump says he is raising global tariffs after Supreme Court ruling

February 21, 2026

US President Donald Trump has said he will raise his new global tariff rate to 15 per cent from 10 per cent, a day after the US Supreme Court struck down his policy. Trump signed a proclamation slapping a temporary 10 per cent duty on imports under section 122 of the 1974 trade act, which [...]
Thousands of entrepreneurs quit the UK in the past two years, says wealth manager

February 21, 2026

Nearly 6,000 owners of high-growth businesses left the UK over the past two years, following changes to the UK’s tax regime and growing concerns over economic competitiveness. According to research from wealth manager Rathbones, who analysed Companies House filings from between January 2024 and 2026, of the business owners who have left the UK, the [...]
Brewdog co-founder to plough millons into rescue bid for the struggling brewer

February 21, 2026

James Watt, the co-founder and former boss of Brewdog is to plough £10m of his own money into the company in a rescue bid for the craft brewer. According to reports from Sky News, Watt, who stepped down as Brewdog’s chief executive in 2024, is assembling financial backing from external investors for the group. Insiders [...]

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