Within a matter of weeks, the coronavirus has completely ripped through the UK economy, forcing the majority of businesses to move their entire operation to work remotely.
The Voilàp Group has announced that it has finalised an agreement to purchase 80% of the share capital of Mecal, an Italian company specialised in the manufacture of machinery and systems for processing aluminium and light alloys. Full implementation of this operation is planned during the first quarter of 2020.
SCHEMA Group, a developer of software solutions for content lifecycle management (Component Content Management System SCHEMA ST4 and Content Delivery Solution SCHEMA CDS) has acquired Docware GmbH.
At Finance Monthly, we naturally speak with a lot of people who work within the financial services sector. Very few of those people, however, mention words such as ‘ethics’, ‘honesty’ and ‘integrity’. This month, we had the pleasure to connect with commercial lines power broker, Jason Fairbanks, the President and CEO of Fairbanks Insurance Brokers - a California-based brokerage which specialises in insurance coverage for builders and tradesmen working within the construction industry. Jason Fairbanks has devoted his career to ‘doing the right thing’ and proving to other insurers that you can be ethical to your clients and still have a profitable business. Below he tells us more about it.
On 25th March, the Vanguard US real estate index fund $VNQ hit $60. The last time it was at this level was in September 2008, right at the beginning of the Great Recession.
The current COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented change in how we think about and approach work, leisure, and life in general. It’s reassuring to see that the large majority of companies in the UK have put the physical well-being of their people first and made the necessary moves to get them to stay home wherever possible. And despite the reduction in business travel and practical elimination of face-to-face meetings in financial services, and without any other option, business continues to get done.
The beginning of any new year marks an opportune time to reevaluate your finances and investment strategy. 2020 marks the start of a new decade and provides even greater incentive for a fresh approach to investment opportunities. As this year commences with unprecedented uncertainty there is reason to consider only the most promising investment trends, says Rupert Spiegelberg, CEO of DoctorLink.
We speak with Arianna Magni, Head of the Institutional and International Business Development Department at Etica Sgr - the only Italian asset management company that, since its launch in 2000, exclusively offers sustainable and responsible mutual funds to private and institutional investors, with the aim of representing the values of ethical finance in financial markets.
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