The Dividend Hero investment trusts that raised payouts even as firms hacked back… and some have lifted income since The Graduate hit the screens By Simon Lambert For This Is Money Published: 12:53 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 13:40 GMT, 15 March 2021 The Dividend Hero investment trusts that bucked the trend and increased … Read more
Veteran City fund manager warns that plans to lure tech companies to list on UK stock market will ‘sow seeds of scandals and losses’ By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 Veteran City fund manager Richard Buxton has warned that plans to … Read more
Be a superhero: Millions of investors have rights over the companies in which they hold shares What if I told you that you had the power to change companies for the better – while still making a profit? Or that you could challenge a chief executive on their company’s environmental policies or help rein in excessive … Read more
More than a fifth of the UK’s leading companies still have no ethnic diversity across their boards, according to report By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:14 GMT, 12 March 2021 | Updated: 22:14 GMT, 12 March 2021 More than a fifth of the UK’s leading companies still have no ethnic diversity across … Read more
Ministers are facing a furious backlash from MPs and civil liberties campaigners after it emerged the Government has teamed up with two UK internet providers to track websites visited by customers. It has been revealed that the Home Office and the National Crime Agency have been trialling controversial surveillance powers to log and store information about … Read more
Privacy campaigners slam secret ‘Snooper’s Charter’ surveillance tests as Home Office teams up with police and two internet firms to spy on people’s web browsing history Two UK internet providers have been tracking the websites visited by customers Companies are working with the Home Office and National Crime Agency Trial of new ‘snooping’ powers were granted … Read more
Investors in Morrisons left scratching their heads as grocer relegated from FTSE100 index of top UK firms By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 5 March 2021 Investors in Morrisons were left scratching their heads this week as the Bradford-based grocer was relegated from the … Read more
Confidence among UK services sector firms at highest level in 15 years as bosses eye end of lockdowns By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:11 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 3 March 2021 Confidence among firms in Britain’s services sector has risen to its highest level for nearly 15 years … Read more
Landowners accuse ‘bullying’ telecoms firms of using loophole to slash rent paid for phone masts – with one saying he was offered £250 rent by EE instead of the usual £6,000 for space at a rugby club Phone giants such as EE, Vodafone and 02 are reducing rents for phone masts Aylesbury Rugby Football Club … Read more
Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey warns the EU against ‘serious escalation’ of post-Brexit row over City firms, warning that its attempts to force them to relocate in the eurozone would be of ‘dubious legality’ Andrew Bailey faced MPs on the Treasury Committee this afternoon Europe’s top banks asked to justify why they should be … Read more