Advisers set for £835m fees windfall from London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv’s mega-merger By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:58 GMT, 10 December 2020 Advisers working on the mega-merger between the London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv are set to bag £835million in fees. … Read more
All Don Forsyth wants to do is unlock the money tied up in an old pension he had forgotten about. But because the pension comes with valuable guarantees and is worth more than £30,000, he needs to pay a financial adviser to sign it off. Yet the trouble is, the 61-year-old cannot find one willing … Read more
Donald Trump was talked out of launching a missile strike on Iran’s main nuclear site by his top advisers last week who warned it could trigger a war President Trump asked senior advisers about taking action against Iran’s main nuclear site at a meeting last Thursday, the New York Times reported Monday Four current and … Read more
Joe Biden’s scientific advisers will meet with COVID-19 vaccine makers in the coming days despite the presidential transition remaining stalled because of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election. ‘We´re going to start those consultations this week,’ said Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, citing Pfizer, which said Monday its experimental vaccine is 90 per … Read more
Downing Street is today locked in a bitter and very public civil war over the direction of the Government after Whitehall was rocked by the resignation of Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain. Mr Cain last night announced he will leave Number 10 at the end of the year after a standoff over whether … Read more
The Government claims to have met Boris Johnson’s target of being able to process 500,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of October. In data published today, UK officials reported the country had the capacity to carry out 519,770 swab tests on November 1 for the virus. But over the course of the week, only … Read more
The Government’s SAGE advisers released papers yesterday evening that showed how they warned ministers two weeks ago that Britain could be headed for a more serious situation than their ‘worst case scenario’. The document, dated October 14, which was released online, said ‘we are breaching the number of infections and hospital admissions in the Reasonable … Read more
Tory MP Steve Baker compares Boris Johnson to King Theoden from The Lord of the Rings and says the PM is ‘under the spell’ of his advisers like Dominic Cummings and must be ‘woken up’ Steve Baker compared Boris Johnson to King Theoden from Lord of the Rings Former Brexit minister Mr Baker claimed PM … Read more
FCA launches crackdown on rogue advisers: Two-year campaign aims to stop investment scams and excessive fees By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 10 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 10 August 2020 More than 100 financial advice firms are being investigated by the City watchdog as part of a sector-wide crackdown, … Read more
Covid-19 survivors shouldn’t have to self-isolate if they develop symptoms of the disease because they aren’t likely to be infectious, government scientific advisers suggest Sage studied evidence which found it’s likely survivors can’t be infected again But admitted it is unclear how long this coronavirus ‘immunity’ would last for Experts dismissed idea of immunity passports, … Read more