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Below you will find the latest articles covering a wide range of issues and topics relevant to financial advisers. Articles are written by contributors from Embark’s businesses as well as other partners and providers and are not promotional or sponsored.
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BlackRock: Why UK equities? Why not?
Jun 07, 2021
As UK equity investors we often allude to the attractions of the UK equity market for long term investors. Despite key attractions, the UK market has certainly faced its fair share of challenges over recent years, and has underperformed global equity markets more broadly. BlackRock believe that now could be the time for investors to seriously consider the opportunity offered by the UK.
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Zettabytes of cash - is it time to rethink data?
Jun 07, 2021
People have competed since time immemorial for resources or precious commodities. But throughout much of history, those most sought after were physical. Today perhaps the most precious resource of all is one you can’t even lay your hands on: data. And some of the largest, most profitable companies ever built specialise in collecting, moving, storing, studying and deriving insight from this data. They sit on digital goldmines.
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Real Return: why copper is king
Jun 07, 2021
Copper is a hot commodity and it could become even more important over the next decade. With innovation more reliant on 5G technology and a shift towards environmentally conscious transport modes, copper will be necessary to facilitate global change, according to Suzanne Hutchins of the Newton-managed Real Return strategy.
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Nine ways to counter the lifetime allowance freeze
Jun 07, 2021
With the government freezing the lifetime allowance (LTA) until April 2026, more clients could be caught by the charge as the next few years roll by. After calculating which clients are at risk of exceeding the limit, what options are there to counter the freeze?
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Mind the (converging) gap: a regime change in the making?
Jun 07, 2021
Nine months ago financial media was awash with headlines that read ‘the death of value’. After seeing initial recovery last September, and more violent moves since the positive news on COVID vaccines last November, now it would be hard to find a strategy note that doesn’t talk about the great value rotation.
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Advice firms face some hard choices on future ecosystem
May 13, 2021
The adviser firm ecosystem of today typically contains several building blocks. Branching out from that we see a back office/CRM system, various financial planning tools (such as cashflow and risk profiling tools), a client portal (possibly), cash management, and several platforms.
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