Blizzard to be all the Rage with Purton up Sport HONG Kong racing enthusiasts can look forward to another hugely exciting and competitive nine-race programme at Happy Valley on Wednesday, featuring the Class Two Chek Lap Kok Handicap (2.15pm) over six furlongs. Unfortunately, rain may rear its ugly head once again during the action as the forecast is not looking good, with plenty of black [...]
How Rachel Reeves plans to use pension pots to fund an investment boom Investing The Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to lay out one of the most significant shake-ups of the pension system in decades today after years of calls from the City to lean on the sector to fund an investment boom. Currently, 86 different local government pension schemes manage assets between £300m and £30bn, with local government [...]
Ambition can carry Newnham to more success Sport HAPPY Valley in Hong Kong hosts its regular midweek-programme today with nine races, featuring the Class Three Hok Yuen Handicap (2.15pm) over the extended mile. The city track has continued to prove a tough place to find winners for the serious bettors recently, with just three winning favourites from the last 35 races. Champion jockey [...]
Jack and Law look far from short Straws November 12, 2024 THREE days of Cheltenham’s November Meeting bring some top-class Jumps action to the table this week, but putting anything up ante-post at the moment is far from easy with so little rain around. Jumps trainers throughout Britain and Ireland are crying out for rain so they can get a run into their horses, without having [...]
Three hacks for becoming the Leicester City of sport business November 1, 2024 Rooting for underdogs is a national characteristic we need to nurture – and not just on the field, argues Alejandro Scannapieco of digital transformation company Sportian. Everyone loves an underdog, particularly in sport. Whether it’s Emma Raducanu winning the US Open or Leicester City’s historic Premier League title, moments when great odds are overturned in [...]
Power set to be Dynamite on his return October 29, 2024 WITH the Jumps back in full swing and top-class Flat action from across the pond at the Breeders’ Cup, this Saturday promises to provide nearly 12 hours of racing and is not to be missed. Ascot hosts its first Jumps meeting of the season and with the unseasonably dry weather, Chris Stickels and his ground [...]
Why these City firms will be the winners and losers of Rachel Reeves’s Budget October 28, 2024 Nervousness has gripped the City over the past month. A vacuum of fiscal policy has been filled by speculation and companies are scrambling to draw up plans ahead of a potentially punitive tax-raiding Budget from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. Among the most gloomy warnings have been an inadvertent gutting of London’s junior AIM market [...]
Class action boom in UK is yet another disincentive to investing here October 24, 2024 As the country holds its collective breath ahead of next week’s Budget, it’s fair to say that business confidence in the UK is lower than the Treasury might like. Last week, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) reported that business confidence had fallen to a 12-month low, while the Institute of [...]
Expansion of class action is damaging trust in UK business, think tank warns October 23, 2024 Adam Smith Institute has issued warnings that the expansion of class action lawsuits in the UK is undermining trust in businesses
The FII Institute’s PRIORITY Compass Global Citizen Survey: A Blueprint For Tomorrow October 22, 2024 In 2022, the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute embarked on a mission to collate data on what are the most pressing concerns of the majority of the world’s population through the inception of the FII PRIORITY Compass, its global citizen survey. The survey’s role is to help world leaders and decision-makers identify and thereby address these concerns. [...]