Used luxury EVs from £29k, including a £45k BMW i7 Motoring Whoever bought a BMW i7 new three years ago has watched well over half its price disappear, which is rotten luck for them and a gift for anyone shopping second-hand. Better still, a luxury EV registered before April 2025 escapes a tax that a new one pays for five years. If you’ve ever fancied a [...]
Is Bali dead? I checked into Canggu’s oldest and newest luxury hotels to find out Life&Style Is Bali dead? Anna Moloney checks into Canggu's first hotel, Hotel Tugu, and the new five-star Regent resort to explore how the digital nomad capital is changing.
Sagard Private Equity Announces Final Close of its Third Emerging Manager-Focused Fund, Exceeding €400 Million Target Business Wire Sagard Private Equity, the global middle-market private equity platform, today announced the final close of their third emerging manager-focused fund (the fund) at €520 million [$600 million], exceeding its original €400 million target and reaching approximately three times the size of its predecessor fund. The fund is the largest fund ever raised with a specific [...]
LPs Expect Private Markets Managers to Level Up in 2027: SS&C Intralinks Survey November 5, 2026 SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced the publication of the 2027 LP Survey. In association with Reuters Insights, SS&C Intralinks surveyed 400 professionals working in private markets, including 370 limited partners and allocators, to understand how the alternative investments market will change in the next 12 months.* “Alternatives once again delivered in 2026, [...]
Bank of England hikes interest rates to four per cent as inflation set to spike November 5, 2026 The Bank of England has raised interest rates to four per cent as all policymakers agreed to tighten monetary policy in a bid to stop inflation from spiralling in the next year. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee hiked interest rates for the first time since mid-2023, with policymakers warning another hike could come in upcoming [...]
Microsoft swerves multibillion-dollar Nscale data centre expansion November 5, 2026 Microsoft has opted against expanding a major data centre deal with British AI dealing Nscale that could have been worth tens of billions of dollars, in fresh sign of the challenges facing the industry’s vast infrastructure spending plans. The US tech giant decided not to take up an option to more than double the computing [...]
A&O Shearman lawyers set to sacrifice billable hours to build AI tools November 5, 2026 Partners at A&O Shearman have agreed to invest more than 5 per cent of its annual revenue over the next five years to build out its AI strategy. The magic circle firm said on Thursday it has committed $1.1bn (£816m) over five years to reflect “a firm-wide step change, enabled by AI, in how legal [...]
iConnections and Preqin, a Part of BlackRock, Announce Collaboration to Bring Institutional Data to Violet, an AI-Powered Capital Introduction Platform November 5, 2026 Preqin's private markets data will be available inside Violet, iConnections' AI-powered capital introduction platform, to help drive networking and greater discovery for attendees of iConnections' Global Alts events
Infantino facing surprise Fifa election challenge from Japanese FA chief November 5, 2026 Japanese Fifa bigwig Kozo Tashima has emerged as a surprise possible challenger to Gianni Infantino’s bid for re-election as president of football’s world governing body. Tashima, honorary president of the Japan Football Association and a member of the Fifa Council for more than a decade, is the first rival candidate to have the backing of [...]
Why the Bank of England’s united interest rate hike signals more to come November 5, 2026 Comments from members of the Bank of England’s rate-setting committee suggest more interest rate hikes are on the way, writes Mauricio Alencar. ‘Stands to ready to act’ was the Bank of England’s mantra for most of this year as it waited for higher energy prices to trickle through the UK economy. After today, the Monetary Policy [...]