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Not so long ago, environmental, social and governance (ESG) jobs were all the rage in banking and finance. In the years after the pandemic, they carried a 20% pay premium and there was talk of a skills gap: in 2020, CFA Institute found that 18% of portfolio manager jobs wanted ESG skills, but that only 1.5% of portfolio managers had them. Buffing a CV with ESG seemed like a no-brainer. 

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...

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For 33-year old Pragya Banthia, a London-based Product Operations Manager, the idea of being able to screen for breast cancer at home in a comfortable setting is appealing. “Cancer is a very sensitive topic for me given my family history.

Dalal Street as Nifty is now 10% from its 52-week high of 26,277 while Sensex has lost over 8,000 points from its peak. While the headline indices will be treated in bear grip if they fall below 20% from the peak, retail investor portfolios are already reflecting signs of a bear market as more than 900 stocks above Rs 1,000 crore market capitalisation are down at least 20% from their 52-week high levels.

shares opened slightly lower on Wednesday, mainly dragged by technology stocks, while investors focussed on a key U.S. inflation print due later in the day that could alter market expectations on the Federal Reserve's interest rate path. The pan-European STOXX 600 slipped 0.1%, as of 0809 GMT, extending losses after a near 2% drop on Tuesday.

Ashok Leyland Ltd. 0.88 per cent to Rs 219.35 at 01:58PM hours (IST) on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session. As per data available on BSE, total traded quantity on the counter stood at 358,929 shares with a turnover of Rs 7.78 crore till 01:58PM (IST). The stock traded at a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 24.35, while the price-to-book value ratio stood at 5.58.

HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. 2.17 per cent to Rs 4300.65 in Wednesday's trade as of 01:48PM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 4366.60 and low of Rs 4260.00 during the session.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After long years of stasis, there seems to be a flurry of activity at the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation (Mospi). Long-delayed surveys have been released.

Vodafone Idea will be in focus as the company will announce its second quarter results today. The telco is expected to narrow its consolidated losses for the quarter ended September 2024, while revenues are likely to grow marginally. Net losses for the quarter may narrow in the range of Rs 6300-6400 crore, according to estimates from three brokerages. Revenues are seen rising 5% year-on-year in the September quarter.

Contil India, JostS Engineering Company and JTL Industries will likely remain in fous in today’s session as these companies have November 14 as the ex-date for the purpose of their respective stock splits. This means today is the last day to buy the shares of these companies in order to be eligible for the stock splits.

earnings season is underway and as many as 540 companies will announce their quarterly numbers for the July-September 2024 period today. Key results to watch out for include that of Vodafone Idea, Eicher Motors and GRSE. Apart from the above, Optiemus Infracom, Panacea Biotech, Pasupati Fincap, MRO-Tek Realty, MPDL, Monind, Kaveri Seed Company, Jagatjit Industries, Gita Renewable Energy, Emerald Leisures, Arkade Developers, Aayush Wellness, Brigade Enterprises, Crane Infrastructure and a few others will announce their quarterly results.

«Nifty has now edged closer to its previous swing low i.e. around 23800, with banking heavyweights leading the decline and dampening hopes of a recovery once again. Current signals suggest a potential test of the long-term moving average at the 200 DEMA level, around 23,540. Participants should adjust their positions accordingly and prioritize selective stock picking,» said Ajit Mishra – SVP, Research, Religare Broking.

Vodafone Idea, Eicher Motors, BSE, Nykaa, PNB Housing among others will be in focus due to various news developments and second quarter results. Vodafone Idea, Eicher Motors, GRSE Shares of Vodafone Idea, Eicher Motors and GRSE will be in focus as the companies will announce their second quarter results later today.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Five years ago, Estonia’s ministry of justice assigned chief data officer Ott Velsberg to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “robot judge" to address a backlog of small claims while ensuring that human judges could review and revise the AI judge's decisions. Complex cases in Estonia, though, continue to be tackled by human lawyers and judges.

23andMe is laying off 40% of its workforce, or more than 200 employees, and discontinuing its therapeutics division as the struggling genetic testing company attempts to slash costs

high-end smartphones are set to get at least 5% more expensive, driven by use of more powerful and complex chipsets for AI use-cases along with more powerful memory modules and other components. Leading chipset companies-Qualcomm and MediaTek-have guided gross margins on mobile phone chipsets to go down in the December quarter due to increasing wafer costs. Taiwanese chipset maker TSMC is raising costs for leading-edge 5nm and 3nm processors that are majorly utilised by smartphone chipmakers. Meanwhile, chipset designer ARM is also raising licensing costs for companies like MediaTek, even as it is embroiled in a lawsuit against Qualcomm for its use of custom CPU cores in its latest generation mobile chipset. Experts believe Qualcomm will likely settle ahead of the hearing in December, with ARM pushing to raise license fees with Qualcomm as well.

Economists, however, struck a note of caution in view of softening urban demand. «There is improvement in the numbers, but IIP is extremely volatile,» said Gaura Sen Gupta, chief economist at IDFC First Bank.