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Investors face a maze of performance claims, service promises and fast-changing technology options
Managers struggle to see through the thicket of ethical standards and metrics to assess the impact of their investments
Advisers remain sceptical in the main about bitcoin and similar assets
Lockdown has given customers the opportunity to scrutinise fees and charges
Wealth managers create ‘hybrid’ services that combine low-cost digital advice with face-to-face options
Savers given more access to early-state investments but warned of risks
The groups display a sharper eye when it comes to bids for cheap listed companies
More of a statement than an investment, but the right brand may carry some residual value
Companies take tentative steps to breaking traditional mould
Investors are demanding transparency on personal investments
Brits love hoarding fifties — but it’s a costly financial habit
US banks try to reverse months of falling balances with new offers and rewards
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Up-to-date tax-efficient savings deals
Current rates from the state-owned savings bank
In this issue: bitcoin and the wealthy — rewards and risks of the cyptocraze; meet the design obsessives who collect modernist homes; why divorce need not mean the end for a couple’s business; Covid drives away Chinese students from private UK schools
OECD warns levies could increase as governments seek to pay down pandemic debt
Calls for regulatory reform must be heeded to help prevent future investment fiascos
Investors could be hit by costs and unwelcome strategy shifts, experts say
World’s second-largest asset manager expects lower fees will help expand the market
Funds are bypassing private equity firms to place big bets on companies directly
The letter comes with a certificate of tax position to complete, but I’m wary about completing this.
Social care reform is worth paying for but triple lock should be suspended
Rules are changing to send more retirement savings into illiquid investments
Evidence suggests wealthy people are most likely to be caught out
No 10 insists committed to pledge despite Treasury concerns on potential £4bn cost of uprating retirement payments
Government unveils consultation to subject more plans to value-for-members tests
Just as some wealthy people collect cars, others amass architecture purely for their own pleasure
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Letters sent to clients of IFAs who have since gone bust
Supply teachers and agency nurses among those put into umbrella company schemes
Human behaviour is much less predictable — or rational — than the finance industry likes to think
‘We’re warned to be careful of the small print, but on a mobile phone, all the print is small print’
Peter Lampl put his financial muscle into boosting educational access for all — but the pandemic has made progress harder than ever
Shoppers switching to contactless causes 35% reduction in number of cash payments
Lockdowns have had a disproportionate effect on the finances of younger buyers, according to research
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