The Charity Commission recently announced that they were dropping the terms ‘ethical’ and ‘responsible’ from their draft revision of CC14, the regulation that sets out how charities can manage their money. In this article, we look at how this has the potential to be an important change and allow a wider shift in how charities can use their money, if supported by the proper guidance.
Over the weekend there were two important developments in the situation around bank deposits and unrealised losses on bond portfolios. Ben Funnell, Head of Investment Solutions, explains what happened and the resulting market impact.
While it is still too early to conclusively remark that we are in a new era of deglobalisation, it is likely that we are now seeing some significant shifts in globalisation, which is being redefined by geopolitics, and increasingly nationalism and protectionist measures. In this article we examine these factors and their investment implications.
