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The overall average relative performance of all equity funds compared to their benchmarks was -2.4% in 2023.

By Rod Nickel

India has emerged as the third most important market from a local sales perspective for French automation and software company Schneider Electric that is looking to capitalise on five mega trends that is shaping global companies, the most important of which is the growing demand for its energy saving systems, said its top executive. It will be investing Rs 3200 crore ( euro 350 million) in expanding industrial footprint with 5 new greenfield factories in energy management and both automation products. “If you take the CO2 footprint that is generated today, 81 per cent of that is related to energy.

Mint explains the significance: What is a P&I entity or club? A P&I entity or a P&I club is a mutual insurance association that provides risk-pooling information and representation for its members. Unlike a marine insurance company, which reports to its shareholders, a P&I club reports only to its members that include ship owners, operators, charterers, freight folders and warehouses. These act as both insurer providers and insurance receivers for its members and provide coverage for a carrier’s third-party open-ended risks such as damage to cargo, war, and environmental damage such as oil spills.

Last year, a record £4.4bn was paid into money market funds, as high interest rates and low risk proved incredibly attractive to investors.

Morningstar's Hortense Bioy (pictured) said the success of the UK labelling regime will lie in the quantity and quality of the products that get labelled.

Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday said it has downgraded its rating on the senior unsecured bonds issued by Vedanta Resources to Ca from Caa3. The rating for the Corporate Family Rating (CFR) of Vedanta Resources was also downgraded to Caa3 from Caa2, Moody's said.

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Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business tycoon Richard Branson, allegedly having intimate relations with an unnamed woman. In a series of emails in 2016 to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan, she wrote about one of her friends, «She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples.» She also wrote that she knew she had intimate relations with Trump at Jeffery’s New York mansion on regular occasions.

Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office workers due to faulty software, has exploded into the public domain following a TV drama, sparking demands for justice. In a more than 20-year scandal, some postal workers were sent to prison and others lost their livelihoods and homes.

plantation companies including the Tata Coffee, owe about Rs 2000 crore in lease rentals and interest on dues to the Karnataka government, the state’s Forest, Environment & Ecology minister Eshwar B Khandre said on Tuesday, announcing legal steps to recover the money. These companies have taken large swathes of forest land on lease from the pre-Independence era, and been growing plantation crops including coffee, tea, rubber, and pepper. These plantations are dotted across the state including Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada and Chamarajanagar. The minister, sharing the details at a media conference, announced a special team headed by Principal Secretary (Environment) BP Ravi to recover the dues from the plantation companies.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was on Tuesday given full ceremony Guard of Honour at the Horse Guards Parade grounds in London. There was a special parade by the British Army's Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards and the Band of the Irish Guards. The regiments represented on parade are among the most historic in the British Army. Ceremonial welcomes of this nature are considered special and memorable moments of high honour from one nation to another. Following the ceremony, Rajnath Singh and his UK counterpart, Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps, retired to the Ministry of Defence to discuss shared future military commitments and joint training opportunities Singh on Tuesday also paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his statue in Tavistock, London. Later on Tuesday, the Defence Minister will depart for the Ambedkar Museum.

Apple has started to pay the owners of some iPhone models in the US because of allegations that the handsets have become slower. Those who made the complaints are to be paid around $92, as a constituent of the total payout of $500m, for each model that has slowed down.

Jupiter CEO Matthew Beesley

Jupiter's Ben Whitmore (pictured) will depart later this year to establish a value equities boutique.

The Christmas period failed to 'make amends for a challenging year of sluggish retail sales growth', as consumers held back spending due to weak confidence.

Stocks and bonds retreated before key inflation readings from the U.S. and China later this week and the earnings season kicks off on Friday. 

The strategy was soft closed in July 2019 when it hit nearly $3.6bn in assets.

Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT developer OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc's merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was «checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation».

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Total sales grew 1.7% in December, compared with almost 7% growth a year earlier, the British Retail Consortium and consultancy KPMG said in a report Tuesday. Sales of non-food items declined over the three months to December, with shoppers particularly avoiding big-ticket purchases such as furniture and homeware. Clothing, jewelry and technology were other gift categories that struggled.