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Market Headlines 2025 Review

2025 delivered another year of record highs – but it didn’t come quietly. Global equities climbed to new highs for a third year running, with emerging markets and the UK standing out as strong performers. However, markets didn’t rise smoothly all year

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Fund Research 2025 Review

This report is based on our independent, unbiased fund research and explores key themes across the fund management landscape, including performance outcomes, industry consolidation, winning investment styles, personnel changes, passive investing, the emergence of new products and trends, and regulatory developments.

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UK Autumn Budget 2025

Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced one of the most closely-watched Autumn Budgets in recent memory. She faces a difficult economic reality: stubborn inflation, rising unemployment, weak productivity, and high debt servicing costs. Against this backdrop, she has had to create a spending and taxation plan that doesn’t politically sink the already-unpopular Labour government.