15 October 2025

Is AI a Fad or a Structural Shift? What UK Investors Should Be Watchin

The buzz around artificial intelligence is deafening - from FTSE boardrooms to boutique wealth desks, AI is now a top-line agenda item. But beneath the market momentum and media obsession lays a critical question - particularly for UK investors making long-term capital decisions:

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08 October 2025

Why Contrarian Investing Works: Profit in the Places Others Fear to Look

In a world where crowd sentiment can swing markets with a tweet, the appeal of contrarian investing has never been stronger or more misunderstood.

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01 October 2025

Crypto Passporting: Could the US-UK Task Force Unlock a New Era for Digital Assets?

As Adrienne Harris steps down as head of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), she leaves behind a provocative idea: crypto passporting between the US and UK. For institutional investors and financial services firms on both sides of the Atlantic, it could be a transformational shift or another regulatory mirage.

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24 September 2025

Private Credit 2.0: Why UK Allocators Are Entering a New Era of Yield and Innovation

The post-2020 investment landscape has rewritten the rules for income, risk, and liquidity. For UK wealth managers, pension funds, and family offices, one question has quietly risen to the top of the agenda: Where can I obtain a consistent, uncorrelated yield without locking capital for a decade?

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17 September 2025

Echoes of 2008? Tricolor’s Collapse and the Uncomfortable Parallels to Subprime Mortgages

When Tricolor Holdings, a subprime auto lender in the US, collapsed into bankruptcy this September, many market participants dismissed it as an isolated failure. The company specialised in providing financing to borrowers with little or no credit history, packaging those loans into asset-backed securities (ABS), and selling them on to investors. The fraud allegations, including suggestions that collateral may have been pledged twice, seemed more like a potential corporate scandal than a systemic event.

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10 September 2025

Semi-Transparent ETFs: A Quiet Revolution or Another Damp Squib?

For decades, ETFs have built their reputation on one defining trait: daily transparency. Investors knew what they held, when they held it, and at what cost. That clarity became the bedrock for trillions in global flows.

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