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3 days ago | 
citywire.com | Sophie Downes |Miles Costello |Himanshu Singh |Natalia Vasnier
Time was when people would actually use their mobile phones to make calls. Now, even a text – especially from one’s offspring – can feel like a luxury. On the other hand, taking photographs, streaming films or music, shopping, gaming, consuming news and doing “the socials” are all absolutely de rigeur for a modern mobile.
Deutsche Telekom (DE:DTE) facilitates all these things and more across Europe.
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6 days ago | 
citywire.com | Joseph Eden |Paromita Dey |Natalia Vasnier |Nour Azhar
A number of portfolio managers are stepping down from their roles at UK investment giant Schroders this year, Citywire can reveal.
The exodus comes as the company pushes through a sweeping transformation programme overseen by newly-appointed CEO Richard Oldfield, who took over from Peter Harrison towards the end of last year.
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6 days ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier
Howard Knights and Andrew Black (pictured below) have launched Alphalytix, a benchmark platform for model portfolio service (MPS) providers.
The launch coincides with ARC Research unveiling its new MPS benchmarks earlier this week.
After over fifteen years in the industry as a chartered financial planner, Knights said he grew frustrated about the data delays of current performance comparators and decided to take things into his own hands. Already have an account?
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6 days ago | 
citywire.com | Selin Bucak |Joseph Eden |Paromita Dey |Natalia Vasnier
A number of portfolio managers are stepping down from their roles at UK investment giant Schroders this year, Citywire can reveal.
The exodus comes as the company pushes through a sweeping transformation programme overseen by newly-appointed CEO Richard Oldfield, who took over from Peter Harrison towards the end of last year.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier |Himanshu Singh |Dylan Lobo |Joseph Eden
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier
A RBC Brewin Dolphin stalwart has left to head up UBS Global Wealth Management’s Manchester and North West proposition.
Bradley Russell, who spent 15 years at RBC Brewin Dolphin as senior investment manager and divisional director, will focus on high-net-worth individuals and families, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs at UBS.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier |Miles Costello |Dylan Lobo |Joseph Eden
He’s very polite about it, but Darren Jaroch knows more than many about the chaos and tumult that have ripped through financial markets over recent months. As the manager of both US and international portfolios at Putnam Investments, he witnessed first hand the heavy slide in the S&P 500 and markets across the world as Donald Trump unleashed details of his planned tariffs for America’s trading partners.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has no plans to cut its overweight in gold, believing the price of the precious metal could go even higher in the volatility sparked by US president Donald Trump’s tariff plans.
RLAM asset allocator Trevor Greetham said the firm’s multi-asset portfolios had been consistently overweight gold since July 2024 after deciding it was a good volatility hedge.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier
Hampden Bank industry veterans George Grierson and David Bell have called time on their careers.
Grierson joined the bank in 2017 as banking director, remaining in the role since then. He was previously head of private clients at Lloyds for eight years, before a variety of roles as a business development consultant.
In a LinkedIn post, Grierson said that he started his banking career back in 1976 at the Savings Bank of Glasgow, and that now it was finally ‘time for a rest’.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Natalia Vasnier
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has no plans to cut its overweight in gold, believing the price of the precious metal could go even higher in the volatility sparked by US president Donald Trump’s tariff plans.
RLAM asset allocator Trevor Greetham said the firm’s multi-asset portfolios had been consistently overweight gold since July 2024 after deciding it was a good volatility hedge.
