With consumers rethinking their priorities, employees rethinking their jobs and marketers rethinking their rosters, it should naturally follow that agencies will be rethinking the ways they do business, and with whom. In the months ahead, this is likely to lead to a number of acqui-hires by agencies, mid-sized shops looking […]
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Big Tech’s free-for-all party is coming to an end
The report, which used the word “monopoly” over 100 times, proposed that big tech platforms like Apple should be blocked from entering “adjacent lines of business” and from giving preference to their own products. For Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others, this is fighting talk of course – […]
Apple’s strength signals the coming of a new economic age
City folklore has it that there are two, faintly irrational but nonetheless reliable, sell signals when it comes to stock picking. One is when a hugely successful and inspirational manager/founder decides to leave the company. Whoever comes next will find it a tough act to follow, if only because his predecessor […]
Five funds to get you through the coming recession
Economists are debating not whether Britain will have a recession but how long it will last and how deep it will be. Investors are therefore right to be nervous about where they put their money at the moment, but there is no straightforward answer. Counter-intuitively, they should not immediately park […]
Pension tax rules to be suspended for public sector workers coming back to fight coronavirus
Crippling pension tax rules could be suspended for public sector pensioners who have returned to join the fight against coronavirus after the Government said it would ensure they do not lose out. The change will scrap rules that normally apply a tax charge to pension income for recently retired workers aged between 50 and […]