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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European private credit booms as private equity firms are forced to refinance

August 24, 2026

Lending by European private credit firms hit a record-high in the first half of the year as a subdued dealmaking environment forced private equity firms to pause sale processes and renegotiate their portfolio companies’ debt, new data suggests. The value of direct lending across the continent hit €63.2bn (£54.1bn) in the first six months of [...]
Billions in pensions go missing: JP Morgan and Standard Life reconnect Brits with lost wealth

August 24, 2026

Over £2bn in lost wealth was returned to savers in the first six months of the year, by firms including JP Morgan and Standard Life who want to reconnect Brits with lost money. The initiative, dubbed ‘Billions 4 Millions, returned £2.5bn in lost and uncliamed financial assets to consumers, spanning pensions, investments, savings and financial [...]
Standard Life partners with Goldman Sachs and CVC to fuel pension risk transfer business

August 20, 2026

Standard Life has struck a deal with a group of global finance giants including CVC and Goldman Sachs in a bid to accelerate its push into the booming pension risk transfer market. The FTSE 100 group has joined forces with a CVC-led consortium, which also includes insurer Prudential, to commit as much as £2bn over [...]
Cut student loan repayments to get youths out of chicken shops

August 19, 2026

Crippling student loan repayments have stolen billions from the economy sending struggling graduates to cheap food options and public transport, a consultancy firm has argued. Analysts at Baringa found that cutting the student loan repayment rate from nine per cent to five per cent would free up to £6bn in consumer spending each year for [...]
UK’s largest wealth firms tighten their hold on the market

August 18, 2026

The ten largest wealth firms in the UK have expanded their grip on the market, serving nearly the entirety of the country’s client base. The firms served up to 89 per cent of the discretionary client base in the previous tax year, according to the latest wealth management survey from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). [...]
Amanda Blanc has worked her magic at Aviva

August 18, 2026

For twenty years Aviva found itself struggling to cement its position in the insurance market. The arrival of Amanda Blanc changed the group’s fortune and share price. Maisie Grice looks into how she executed Aviva’s revival and what could come next. Few FTSE 100 constituents have executed a turnaround quite like Aviva’s. The insurance giant [...]
Grandparents fund university degrees to avoid inheritance tax net

August 13, 2026

Wealthy grandparents are choosing to fund their grandchildren’s university education over leaving a large inheritance as they look to avoid the shake up to the tax system. The bank of grandma and grandad has played a greater role within UK families in recent years, as parents continue to be squeezed by rising costs. In particular, [...]
Burnham’s devolution drive could ‘push 90,000 jobs out of London’

August 12, 2026

Roughly 90,000 of London’s white-collar jobs could be pushed into other parts of the country as Andy Burnham accelerates his devolution drive, a top recruitment firm has predicted. Legal, banking and accounting firms could be among those to shift thousands of jobs away from the capital in a bid to capitalise on the Prime Minister’s [...]
London IPO candidate Utmost sees inflows slide

August 12, 2026

A wealth soultions firm expected to IPO in London later this year has posted a fall in inflows as a boost generated by last year’s UK government tax shake up tailed off. Utmost, owned by private equity firms Oaktree Capital and Brookfield, recorded £4.4bn of inflows in the first half of the year, down from [...]
Aberdeen is back in the FTSE 100 but is Interactive Investor holding it up?

August 12, 2026

Five years ago former Aberdeen chief executive Stephen Bird made what would prove to be a disastrous choice when he chose to rebrand the investment manager abrdn. The decision was widely mocked across the Square Mile – including earning the odd jibe in these pages. Some have called Bird’s decision the beginning of his downfall [...]

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