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British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is set to announce plans later Thursday to merge dozens of pension funds with the aim of unlocking tens of billions of pounds for investment and boosting the U.K.’s sub-par economic growth

Shares have opened higher in Europe after mostly falling in Asia following a report showing inflation in the U.S. was roughly as expected last month

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As festivities bring families and friends together, dinner table conversations more often than not turn to children and their future. This time it was around higher education, a topic that is particularly resonant for me as a parent of a 13-year-old son.

Britain's motor finance industry is in disarray, with analysts warning of worst-case scenarios similar in magnitude to the country's costliest consumer banking scandal.

This week IT engineering services provider L&T Tech Services signed an agreement to acquire California-based Intelliswift for a total consideration of $110 million. Amit Chadha, the company’s chief executive and managing director, told ET that the firm plans to double the revenue of the acquired company (whose annual revenue is about $100 million) in the next three years. While half of Intelliswift’s revenue comes from high tech, the rest comes from fintech and retail, along with the private equity channel. Persistent Systems in September said it was acquiring select assets from SoHo Dragon for $4.7 million. SoHo Dragon is a Wall Street-based consulting and staffing firm primarily in the business of providing IT services to BFSI customers. The Pune based firm said at the time, “The acquisition of the select assets will help in consolidating the relationship with a strategic and large customer in the BFSI domain.”

Mars. Elsa Thora, a model, asked Elon Musk to help her become the first space mother, saying she would like to be the Adam and Eve of Mars. The risqué model has changed her goal posts to a new, more bizarre aspiration after expressing her desire to be the first person to make love in space, as quoted in a report by the Daily Star. Swedish OnlyFans star Elsa Thora, who lives in the UK, has stated that she wants to be the first person to give birth on Mars in order to contribute to the planet's population, and she needs Elon Musk's assistance to accomplish this.

Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated his 50th birthday with a star-studded party in West Hollywood while inviting numerous A-list celebrities which included Brad Pitt, Katy Perry and Robin Thicke, reported Fox News. The event featured an intimate dinner catered by Nobu which was eventually followed by a lively party with performances by Anderson and DJ Meel. Fox news reported that however, the celebration drew severe criticism from the local residents who actually complained about traffic and disruptions caused by the influx of guests. Numerous videos showed disgruntled neighbors confronting security about vehicles driving over private property and causing major damage. Also Read: How will the British Royal Family handle Donald Trump? They are already making plans on how to deal with him

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary election to help him implement his election pledges to solve the country’s economic woes and foster good governance

Netflix’s Arcane returns with its Season 2, which resumes the ongoing story of power struggles, personal turmoil and alliances in the League of Legends universe.

Wockhardt on Wednesday reported a net loss of Rs 16 crore in Q2FY25 led by improved performance across UK, India and emerging markets. The Mumbai-based drug maker reported a net loss of Rs 73 crore in Q2FY24.

As we roll towards the allocation and payment of end of year bonuses, another bank has been cutting the sorts of people who might usually expect big ones. This time, it's Deutsche Bank.

Aylward will join the firm's investments team, which manages a bespoke MPS for advised clients, building and managing portfolios tailored to individual specifications for adviser firms and their clients.  He joins after more than seven years at Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management, where he was head of manager selection and responsible investing, looking after a range of multi-asset and single asset solutions. AJ Bell platform AUA up 22% in 12 months to £86.5bn Before being headhunted by Barclays, Aylward spent eight months working as head of manager research at UK DC pensio...

Dean joined the Chelverton UK team in May this year but began her fund management career in 1992 at GT Asset Management, managing UK equity funds.  Following this she joined HSBC Asset Management before moving to Cazenove in 2002 to manage its UK Opportunities fund, later the Schroder UK Opportunities Accumulation fund. 155-year old Investment Company selects new investment manager Subsequently, Dean worked as an owner manager at Sanditon Asset Management.  Dean will run the new mandate with Henry Botting, and said she was «thrilled to be working with Chelverton – they are a sup...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The days are getting colder in Europe. Perhaps a black, white, tan and red down jacket will keep Burberry investors warm.

Managed by Matthew Brett, the fund was launched in 1984 and holds a plethora of Japanese institutions such as SoftBank, Nintendo and Sony, as it aims to outperform the TOPIX index by 1.5% per annum over five years. In the 12 months to 30 September 2024, the fund returned just under 10.8%, short of its target benchmark return of 12.4%, according to data from Morningstar. Baillie Gifford's Iain McCombie: Rightmove's REA rejection 'really good news' for UK M&A Over the long term, however, the fund has performed well against the broader Japanese stock market and IA Japan sector, HL not...

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) department has issued a crucial advisory to Indian nationals applying for UK visas, urging them to stay vigilant against potential fraud. Scammers often impersonate officials, claim expedited visa processing, or request payments through unauthorized channels. UKVI emphasized that it will never reach out through social media, request payments by email or personal bank accounts, or guarantee visa approvals in exchange for third-party payments. All payments for UK visa services should be made exclusively via GOV.UK or its verified partners. Indian nationals emerged as the largest recipients of UK visas across Visit, Study, and Work categories for the year ending June 2024.

Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with «Orbital,» a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize for what she has called a «space pastoral» about six orbiting astronauts, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The confined characters loop through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over the course of a day, trapped in one another's company and transfixed by the globe's ever-changing vistas. «To look at the Earth from space is like a child looking into a mirror and realizing for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself,» said Harvey, who researched her novel by reading books by astronauts and watching the space station's live camera. «What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BRITAIN WAS the first country to generate electricity from coal. On September 30th that era came to an end when it closed its last coal-fired plant, amid much self-congratulation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: UK-based Standard Chartered Bank is looking to up its wealth management play in India, hiring more relationship managers and giving a facelift to several branches in a market that has recently attracted strong interest from both global and domestic money managers. “India is a huge opportunity for the wealth business and in the next decade, the amount of wealth that will get created in India will possibly be the highest in any of our footprints," Samir Subberwal, global head of wealth solutions, deposits and mortgages, and chief client officer, Standard Chartered Bank, said in an interview on Tuesday.

A British television presenter and former reality television star is facing harsh blowback after she shared her thoughts on Kate Middleton’s looks over the weekend, pondering why the Princess of Wales has “aged so much.”