United Kingdom: Wealth & Asset Management

Investment managers are navigating a transformed fundraising landscape where success depends on more than performance metrics. This analysis examines how product innovation, customised solutions, and alternative capital-raising strategies are reshaping the relationship between managers and investors in an increasingly competitive environment.

Grave goods are objects placed in burials to accompany the dead, and they offer important evidence of how past societies understood death, status, and the afterlife. In Neolithic cultures, such items often included pottery, tools, ornaments, and food offerings, suggesting both practical and symbolic concerns for the deceased

Travers Smith's 5th annual Alternative Insights Summit explored how political upheaval, pension fund reform, and the push toward individual investor access are reshaping the alternative asset management landscape. Industry leaders debated whether UK pension funds can catch up to their Canadian and Australian counterparts, and whether opening private markets to retail investors presents opportunity or unacceptable risk.

There are a number of potential tax advantages when using FICs, including Inheritance Tax, but these will vary depending on the size

I have found that the most globally connected African families are rarely the ones who set out to become global. It happens gradually. A daughter enrolls at a university in London.

Updating the UK’s individual accountability regime has been timetabled for the new Parliamentary session.

The European Commission has published its near-final draft Delegated Regulation amending the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)...

The Financial Conduct Authority has released a series of regulatory updates and priorities for the investment management sector, introducing new operational resilience requirements, reforming advice market rules, and modernizing the redress system. These developments signal significant changes in how firms must approach consumer protection, operational incident reporting, and third-party arrangements while balancing growth objectives with regulatory compliance.

Since our original note in January, there have been material developments in the UK’s new mandatory tax adviser registration regime. HMRC has now published guidance, the phased commencement...