2024: Brooks' sale to Canaccord; the impact of SDR; and the October Budget

Women are still woefully underrepresented in wealth management, with Citywire’s Alpha Female Report last year showing just 12.5% of active portfolio managers are female. For International Women’s Day last week, Citywire hosted a roundtable featuring four Top 100 Women. The industry’s poor female retention rate was a hot topic of…

Louise Kernohan discusses leaving Abrdn in 2020 to join Newton and run the firm’s £590m BNY Mellon UK Equity fund and why ‘sustainable UK equities’ is not a contradiction in terms.

What will be the endgame for SDR?   The regulator’s sustainable labels had a rocky start, with many rejecting the labels altogether amid various issues with the process,, but the teething problems appear to be over now, according to Parmenion’s senior investment manager Mollie Thornton.

Suzie Bliss goes for a walk around Edinburgh’s The Meadows with Tcam’s Mark Little. She uncovers Little’s fascinating career from accountant and qualified South African game ranger to fund manager before settling in the private client investment management world.

Suzie Bliss meets Brewin Dolphin’s Ben Gutteridge in London’s Regents Park. He divulges his expertise behind hosting Brewin Dolphin’s own podcast, the memorable guests he’s interviewed and whether he’s got anyone’s name wrong. We also discover his rise through fund selection and Ben reveals the best lesson he’s learnt in…