British investors fled the stock market at a record rate in 2025 January 7, 2026 British investors pulled out of the stock market at a record pace last year, as Budget uncertainty sparked a flight to safe haven assets. Equity fund outflows hit £6.7bn in 2025, twice the rate suffered in 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum, where outflows reached £3.3bn, according to global funds network Calastone. December marked [...]
Everest Group to Hold Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call on Thursday, February 5, 2026 January 6, 2026 Everest Group, Ltd. (“Everest”) (NYSE: EG) will hold its fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call on Thursday, February 5, 2026, beginning at 8:00 am Eastern Time. Dial in details can be obtained by completing the registration form available at: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10205413/102ff00e703 The call can be accessed via a live, listen only webcast at www.investors.everestglobal.com where a [...]
Non-doms made up two thirds of super-prime sellers in 2025 January 6, 2026 Wealthy foreigners fleeing the UK to escape the government’s crackdown on non-doms were behind two of every three super-prime property sales last year, leading prices at the top-end of London’s housing market to extend declines that now stretch over a decade. According to a fresh analysis of London property transactions above £15m, 65 per cent [...]
Lakestreet Capital Partners Demands Change to Benefit All Shareholders of Palace Capital Plc, the FTSE REIT January 5, 2026 Lakestreet Capital Partners AG (“Lakestreet”), the largest shareholder in Palace Capital Plc (“Palace Capital”) with a 22.53% total shareholding* has this weekend requisitioned a general meeting of Palace Capital to remove its Chairman, Steven Owen and to appoint its founders as directors. Lakestreet is deeply troubled by the excessive amount of remuneration that Steven Owen [...]
Activity in UK’s embattled manufacturing sector hits 15-month high January 2, 2026 The UK’s embattled manufacturing sector took another small step towards recovery at the end of 2025 thanks to an influx of new orders. The latest UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) from S&P Global UK hit a 15-month high as the industry continued to grow for the second consecutive month. The PMI reading hit 50.6, up [...]
Housing market ended 2025 on ‘softer note’ after ‘resilient’ year January 2, 2026 The UK housing market rounded off 2025 on a softer note after remaining “resilient” through a volatile year, according to Nationwide’s latest house price index. Annual house price growth slowed to 0.6 per cent in December from 1.8 per cent in November, with a 0.4 per cent fall in prices. This took the average UK [...]
What does 2026 hold for London property owners? January 2, 2026 Ordinary London home owners are set to be hammered by Rachel Reeves’ Mansion Tax and skyrocketing council tax. But the capital will prove resilient, says James Evans It’s going to be an interesting year ahead for the capital’s property owners and how they deal with the fallout from the Budget. Central to this is how London [...]
IMG’s three sports sponsorship trends to watch in 2026 December 31, 2025 Look out for higher demands on AI, more prediction markets and greater sophistication in women’s sport sponsorships next year, says IMG partnerships expert Sam Galet. As we close out 2025 and look ahead to 2026, the sports business landscape is once again at an inflection point. Rightsholders, brands and agencies are all asking the same [...]
Why 2025 in sport marketing was the year that changed everything December 30, 2025 For much of the last decade, sports marketing followed a familiar script: globalisation, digital scale and steadily inflating rights fees. In 2025, that script broke. This year forced brands, rights-holders and investors to confront harder truths about attention, technology and value, and in doing so, it reset how sport is bought, sold and measured. From [...]
House prices plunge around London with Brighton, Crawley hit hardest December 30, 2025 Patches of London’s ‘stockbroker belt’ suffered the most significant decline in house prices this year, as both the capital and the South East fell behind northern regions. The West Sussex town of Crawley suffered an 8.9 per cent drop of £36,317, while High Wycombe saw a 7.4 per cent drop, with £34,994 wiped off house [...]