The 350-year-old Shawford Park estate recently made a cameo on season six of hit TV Showtime show Billions as the country home of hedge fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod, played by actor Damian Lewis. The estate, located in the English countryside of Hampshire in the U.K., is a Grade II-listed home that recently hit the market
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Retail investment platforms are being probed by regulators over the profits generated on customers’ cash, ahead of the introduction of a new consumer duty which will force firms to offer investors “fair value”. The Financial Conduct Authority on Thursday wrote to 39 investment platforms and self-invested personal pension (Sipp) providers asking for details on “client
As intriguing locales go, odds are this one is a sure bet. Author Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the James Bond series from the part of neutral Portugal where he was stationed during World War II. Fleming, a British Naval Intelligence officer, took his inspiration from Estoril when stationed … [+] there during World
With designs by master architect Edgar Ullrich, trees planted by famed botanist and landscape architect Kate Sessions and occupants descended from the Sepúlveda and the de la Guerra families, this La Jolla hillside home is about as close to San Diego royalty as you can get. In fact, the Upper Hermosa residence, now on the
Argentina welcomed its first Bitcoin (BTC) futures contract on July 13, just three months after the country’s securities watchdog approved the underlying index as part of a strategic innovation agenda. According to Matba Rofex, the trading platform behind the investment vehicle, it is the first Bitcoin futures contract in Latin America. In a futures contract, buyers
Fund manager Nick Train has said that UK equities are “abysmally” out of favour with investors and could remain “frustratingly cheap for a very long time”. Train, who is one of the UK’s best-known fund managers and runs the £4.4bn Lindsell Train UK Equity fund, said that UK valuations far below other developed markets did
The risks posed by artificially intelligent chatbots are being officially investigated by US regulators for the first time after the Federal Trade Commission launched a wide-ranging probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI. In a letter sent to the Microsoft-backed company, the FTC said it would look at whether people have been harmed by the AI chatbot
Anyone trying to assess the prospects of electric vehicle maker Rivian has a paradox to contend with. The more cash investors throw at the company (and they have thrown a lot), the better its chances of surviving the shake-out that is hitting EV start-ups. But it also seems that the more cash investors come up
Amazon delivery package seen in front of a door. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Alphabet — The Google parent company added 4.4% after launching its large language model, Bard AI, in Brazil and the European Union. Cirrus Logic — The chipmaker fell more than
Bitcoin (BTC) looked set to challenge range highs on July 13 as fresh macroeconomic data boosted risk asset bulls. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView PPI shows U.S. inflation retreating beyond expectations Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed the market as the BTC price focus shifted above $30,500. PPI inflation leads CPI by a
The writer is chair of Marks and Spencer When Margaret Thatcher came to power, she recognised that, for free enterprise to succeed, ordinary people needed to feel they had a stake in society. A million council house tenants were enabled to buy their own homes and, when our nationalised industries were privatised, large allocations were
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved amendments to its money market fund rules, increasing liquidity requirements, and allowing money market funds to suspend redemptions temporarily in efforts to limit runs on money market funds such as those experienced in 2008 and 2020. The amendments will affect tax-exempt money market funds and the most
California lawmakers are in negotiations on a bill that would ask voters for $15.5 billion of bond authority to help fill a gap in the state’s plans to spend $54 billion over five years to tackle climate change. The state Senate approved Senate Bill 867 on May 31on a 33-5 vote. The bill, currently in
Until now, it’s been assumed that giving artificial intelligence emotions — allowing them to get angry or make mistakes — is a terrible idea. But what if the solution to keeping robots aligned with human values is to make them more human, with all our flaws and compassion? Robot Souls book cover. (Amazon) That’s the
The former CEO of now-bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Alex Mashinsky, was reportedly arrested on the morning of July 13. The news broke out minutes after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against the crypto lender on the same day. The former CEO was reportedly arrested after a probe into the company’s collapse, reported
The United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly taking action against Celsius Network, one of the cryptocurrency lending firms that collapsed in 2022. The securities regulator filed a lawsuit against Celsius’ former CEO Alex Mashinsky on July 13, according to a report by Bloomberg. Details of the complaint weren’t immediately available, the report
While Switzerland has been popular among the wealthy for its prowess in banking, the country has also been slowly welcoming those who mainly want to use Bitcoin (BTC) as an alternative form of money. Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall spoke with Pietro Poretti, the director of the economic development division of the city of Lugano. They
Virojt Changyencham | Moment | Getty Images With some employees pushing back against return-to-office plans and the hybrid work model of three days a week in person seeming to be the sweet spot, the idea of bringing workers back to the office for a five-day workweek appears to have hit a wall. Office attendance has
Thousands of UK employers are expected to see “significant” cuts to the insurance levy they pay to the corporate pension rescue scheme, as the body passed the threshold of becoming better funded than the plans it protects for the first time. The Pension Protection Fund’s war chest grew to £12.1bn as of March this year,
The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-ups The promise of artificial intelligence is that it will transform productivity. Nowhere is that needed more than in healthcare. With ageing populations, tight spending constraints and overstretched medical staff in many health systems, a productivity revolution cannot arrive quickly enough. As Dr Margaret
Rishi Sunak on Thursday accepted in full the recommendations of independent pay review bodies to give key public sector workers wage rises of about 6.5 per cent, telling trade unions to call off strikes now. The prime minister agreed the awards for 2023-24 after talks with chancellor Jeremy Hunt, when he was reassured they could