Tatton Asset Management: Flourishing while others flounder November 13, 2024 Tatton Asset Management might be a name you haven’t heard of – but it seems like you will soon. Listed on London’s junior market AIM, the fundhouse’s stock price has more than tripled over the last five years. With a skyrocketing profile, Tatton has recorded sector-leading growth. The amount of new money coming into its [...]
Streeting rolls out health service league tables to boost efficiency November 13, 2024 NHS trusts should be “turned into businesses”, a free market think tank has argued, amid Wes Streeting’s announcement of health service league tables in a bid to boost efficiency. The health secretary has confirmed failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and managers sacked if they don’t improve patient care and take [...]
Lloyds to replace senior staff’s union negotiations with ‘people forums’ November 13, 2024 Lloyds Banking Group is to stop recognising the trade union membership of some senior employees by replacing union negotiations with so-called “people forums”.
The Naked Truth November 13, 2024 Charles and Ruth Simpson, co-founders of Simpsons’ Wine Estate and Domaine Sainte Rose, tell Libby Brodie about their journey with Naked Wines How did you get Naked? We started working with Naked Wines in 2012 and they were with us from the outset, helping us through our first vintage in 2016. An amazing 1,200 Angels pre-purchased a case [...]
Experian lifts margin outlook as revenue rises November 13, 2024 Revenue was up six per cent in the six months to September, rising to $3.6bn from $3.4bn in the same period last year.
Fuller’s pub boss warns Budget tax changes will drive hospitality to the brink November 13, 2024 The boss of pub chain Fuller, Smith and Turner has made a stark warning about the effect of recent tax rises on hospitality, warning it will increase inflation and drive businesses “to the wall”. Chair of the London-listed firm known as Fuller’s, Michael Turner, said that the changes to employer’s national insurance contributions (NICs) announced [...]
The Notebook: Closing the gender pensions gap remains at least 20 years out of sight November 13, 2024 The gender pensions gap means many women are facing poverty in retirement. And without urgent action, it may never close, writes Scottish Widows MD Jackie Leiper.
London Stock Exchange boss: Britain needs to re-think ‘weird’ view of capital markets November 13, 2024 The UK needs to view London’s capital markets as a “driver of the domestic economy” rather just a venue for share trading, the boss of the London Stock Exchange said yesterday. At an event hosted by investment bank UBS, Julia Hoggett, who has led the exchange since 2021, called on pension funds to back British [...]
Working mothers will pay for Labour’s tax rises November 13, 2024 Employers’ national insurance hikes will increase the cost of childcare and put nurseries out of business, making life for working mothers even harder than it already is, says Alys Denby Governments are notoriously bad at picking winners, but Britain is about to find out what happens when leaders are more interested in picking losers. From [...]
Tax changes could lead to ‘fire sale’ of family SMEs, experts warn November 12, 2024 Industry leaders have warned there will be an influx of for-sale signs on UK businesses as their owners and subsequent heirs begin to cope with a change in inheritance tax (IHT). The concern comes following the announcement in Reeves’ Autumn Budget that business assets worth more than £1m would no longer be exempt from IHT [...]