Educational resources bound for Haiti with transport industry support
The retired teacher who has sent unwanted school resources to developing countries with the support of the Scottish transport industry, has loaded his last container.
Robots offer alternative to high advice fees
Would you trust your investment to a robot? A growing army of ‘robo-advisers’ is offering an alternative to personal advice, which is seen as expensive, and to banks, who may not be trusted.
Reeling in the years of financial industry power
If I were asked to draw a useful lesson from my 39 years in newspapers, which end today, I might say: respect the power of the financial industry.
Royal London enjoys auto-enrolment boom
Royal London, the UK’s biggest insurance mutual which employs over 1000 in Edinburgh, has continued to benefit from the government’s pension reforms with another big rise in new business.
Car giant says Brexit vote bump in the road
Lookers, owner of Scotland’s 120-year-old car retailer Taggarts, has said the Brexit vote was a ‘bump in the road’ but car sales are as currently as strong as they were a year ago.
Menzies meets break-up calls with 12-month pension study
John Menzies has said its £52million pension deficit could be a barrier to any plan to break up the business as proposed by activist shareholders.
Dividend priority over pensions could face scrutiny
The FTSE-100 companies with pension deficits paid out £53billion in dividends last year, some £11bn more than their combined pension deficits of £42bn.
Burness Paull growth slowed by Brexit anxieties
Burness Paull, Scotland’s second biggest independent law firm, has said Brexit uncertainty has contributed to a fall in profits as clients reacted to the EU referendum vote.
Students enter the financial jungle
As a new generation of students prepares to head off to university, will the costs leave them regretting it?
