READ MOREArticles23rd December 2022The Fintech Revolution: Embracing and Adapting in 2023Financial technology, or fintech, has been a success story for the ages in the last few years. Considerable leaps in technological capability have enabled new financial products – both B2C and B2B – to disrupt the market, resulting in a bumper year for fintech investors in 2021.
READ MOREArticles30th June 2016Hedge Fund Manager of the Month – VanuatuDuring the darkest days of the global financial crisis (GFC) one thought kept going through my
mind. What if the only way to beat the market was to “Forget the Market?”. Honestly, just then all
I wanted to do was forget the market. I was terrified of what the new trading day would bring.
Everywhere I looked, it was a sea of red and the concept of diversification didn’t mean a damn
thing! Established market, emerging market, none of it offered protection for my clients.
Previously uncorrelated assets fell in tandem and there was literally nowhere to hide.
READ MOREArticles20th March 2015Government Creates New Business to Save Up to £105 Million in IT CostsA new joint venture business has been created to host government computer servers.
Crown Hosting Data Centres is a new joint venture between the government and the SME Ark Data Centres Limited, and will provide public bodies with a physical space to host their computer servers and systems that aren't in the cloud.
READ MOREArticles6th January 2021Beating the City – Could it Pay to be Your Own Fund ManagerFor investors, it’s an incredibly unsettling time. Uncertainty continues to sweep the stock market and it’s anyone’s guess just how far the economic impact of coronavirus will spread. Some sectors have been sucker-punched by the crisis, such as airlines, leisure and travel. In a few cases, companies are facing a battle for survival. When it comes to managing a portfolio of shares, the majority hand the hard work to a fund manager, believing that the costs of trading and rebalancing portfolios are too much for an individual investor to bear. However, you can beat the City with a little know how. Ben Hobson, Markets Editor at Stockopedia explains why now might be the perfect time to break free and run your own investment portfolio.