Sally Hickey

Emerging markets specialist brings 40-year career to an end

Annual profits at the UK stockpicker’s Fundsmith drop to £50mn

Minority of shareholders had pushed for cut to share grant awarded at pandemic-induced low

Fund suffers £1.5bn fall in assets since end of 2019 as performance lags

Treasury backs blueprint for blockchain-based technology which industry says will cut costs for end investors

Cornerstone of UK equity market under pressure from low-cost competition and higher interest rates

In a letter to UK city minister Tulip Siddiq, banks and payment providers say measure is potentially discriminatory

New listing rules and open banking adoption may support UK's appeal despite global declining investment trend

A year on from the Farage debanking scandal, the FCA has found room for improvement but no evidence of other politically motivated account closures.

A restructuring could mean cost-cutting and cross-selling, but analysts say there are risks of a culture clash