RM Funds, best known for its shareholding in embattled investment trust Home REIT, has won the mandate for the £146.6m Brooks Macdonald Defensive Capital fund. The Defensive Capital fund, which …
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Lloyd’s of London reports ‘superb’ first half as premium growth offsets losses
Lloyd’s of London, the storied insurance market and one of the world’s largest providers of reinsurance, has reported a jump in profit for the first half of 2024. Lloyd’s reported …
Worst Corporate Jargon of the Week Awards: Scrum
Every one of us has been an email chain which is borderline unintelligible for the amount of corporate lingo thrown in there. At City A.M., we’re taking a stand and …
Building on the green belt won’t fix the housing crisis
Labour’s plans to relax protection for the green belt will incentivise developers to build expensive houses for commuters while leaving city centre brownfield sites to rot, says Sam Fowles Labour …
Playing nice with trade unions won’t fix public services
With trade unions promising further strike action despite generous pay settlements, Labour have found themselves in a bind of their own making, say Matthew Lesh Throughout the election campaign, Keir …
The Capitalist: All aboard the Spoons Express
City slickers check out Waterloo’s new Spoons, a hedge fund tycoon closes in on The Spectator and a farewell to City Spy: catch up on the latest City gossip in …
Square Mile and Me: Rashik Parmar MBE on becoming a tech veteran
Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, takes us through his …
How brickies built the UK’s fastest growing radio broadcaster
Video may have killed the radio star, but builders are bringing it back. Fix Radio CEO Louis Timpany tells Anna Moloney how he built the UK’s fastest growing national broadcaster …
Mark Kleinman: Concorde successor’s failure risks chain Reaction
Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man who gets the City talking in his weekly City A.M. column. This week he tackles Reaction Engines, PRS REIT …
Is Telegram one of those apps that everyone has except you?
Yougov’s chief executive Steve Hatch takes a closer look at the data behind the biggest stories in business. Since Telegram boss Pavel Durov was placed under formal investigation in France last week, …