Man Group: Hedge fund racks up billions in performance losses April 17, 2025 Assets at hedge fund Man Group dropped by $5.6bn (£4.2bn) in the first two weeks of April as market volatility hit the asset manager’s strategies. While assets under management at Man Group jumped from $168.6bn (£127.6bn) to $172.6bn (£130.6bn) in the first three months of the year, they then fell sharply to $167bn (£126.4bn) in [...]
Empiric Student Property in £9m apartment deal amid postgrad expansion April 17, 2025 Empiric Student Property has acquired a £9m block of flats alongside an expansion of its postgraduate offering. The company, which runs student accommodation at top UK universities, said it had completed the buyout of Selly Oak Apartments in Birmingham, a stone’s throw from the University of Birmingham. Empiric said it the acquisition, which is its [...]
City Hall skills bootcamps to receive £27m funding boost April 17, 2025 City Hall is set to receive a funding boost of £27m for a skills bootcamp programme for Londoners, Sir Sadiq Khan has announced. The mayor of London has welcomed the funding from the Department for Education (DfE) which represents a 25 per cent annual uplift for the programme of flexible courses, across some 7,700 trainees, [...]
Speedy Hire accelerates depot closures after Reeves tax hikes April 16, 2025 Speedy Hire said it has accelerated the planned closures of several of its depots and restructured various support roles as it wrestles with the fallout from a raft of tax hikes. The London-listed company said the move had saved around £3.5m in costs over the year in what it described as a “challenging market backdrop.” [...]
Investors set to sell off US stocks at record high levels April 16, 2025 Investors are set to cut their exposure to US stocks to record high levels as global growth expectations have fallen to 30-year lows this month. A net 82 per cent of investors expect the global economy to weaken, down from 44 per cent in March, according to the most recent Bank of America global fund [...]
UK asset managers brace for challenging quarterly results amid market crash April 16, 2025 UK asset managers are bracing for their quarterly results as the fund houses suffer double-digit drops in their share prices since Trump’s tariff regime caused markets to dive. While most UK asset managers have suffered a persistent trend of investors pulling money in favour of low-cost index funds, the firms have been able to rely [...]
High income households could pay more for electricity, Ofgem says April 16, 2025 High-earning households could be forced to front more of the cost for running and upgrading the UK’s energy network, Ofgem has said. Jonathan Brearley, the boss of the energy regulator, told a briefing on Tuesday that wealthier households may have to pay more via the standing charge on their energy bills, while those out of [...]
Tourist tax: Lisa Nandy says Labour may ‘explore’ restoring VAT free shopping April 16, 2025 Lisa Nandy has said the government “could explore” restoring VAT free shopping after hearing “very loud and clear” the calls from the industry to scrap the so-called tourist tax. The culture, media and sport secretary told Elle UK magazine that fashion was in the “soul of the nation” and ministers recognised its “centrality” to the [...]
British Steel: ‘Anti-China rhetoric’ criticised as ‘absurd’ by embassy April 16, 2025 China’s embassy in Britain has criticised the “arrogance, ignorance and twisted mindset” of UK politicians towards Chinese business, as it defended British Steel’s owner Jingye. It comes after Jonathan Reynolds said that the nationalisation of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe is the “likely option at this stage”, while stressing the need to secure a [...]
US dollar shifting towards ‘risky’ currency status, analysts warn April 16, 2025 The US dollar is going through “a possible regime shift” that could leave it as a “risky” currency going forward, UBS analysts have warned. Even as volatility in financial markets has soared as a result of president Trump’s ever-changing tariff regime, the dollar has been sinking quickly, with the DXY index dropping four per cent [...]
