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Report – A mechanical drag on UK equities

March 2024 • Capital marketsby William Wright & James Thornhill

This short paper highlights the structural shift in the way UK pension funds invest the money they allocate to equities away from their traditional ‘UK centric’ approach to a ‘global equities’ approach. While this shift is self-evident to people working in the industry it is less well known outside of it. It has had a significant impact on the allocation to UK equities and will continue to act as a drag on the UK market for many years to come.

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Report – A renewed vision for EU capital markets

January 2024 • Capital marketsby Christopher Breen, Maximilian Bierbaum, and William Wright

This report paints a renewed and ambitious vision for EU capital markets and identifies the potential for game-changing growth to support investment, innovation, and prosperity.  We estimate that an additional 4,400 companies in the EU could raise an extra €470bn every year in the capital markets, and that an additional €12tn in long-term capital could be put to work in the EU economy to help boost sustainable growth.

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Report – Widening retail participation in equity markets

September 2023 • Capital marketsby Maximilian Bierbaum and Sheenam Singhal

At a time when technology should enable more people than ever before to invest in the stock market, retail engagement has fallen over the past few decades in the UK and in many European economies. This report measures the levels of retail participation in equity markets; outlines the potential benefits to households, the economy, and the capital markets; and makes 12 recommendations to increase retail investor engagement.

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Report: financing innovation – earlystage investment in the EU

August 2023 • Capital marketsby William Wright & Christopher Breen

Innovative growth companies are a vital part of rebuilding a more resilient, dynamic, and sustainable economy in the EU.  This report highlights the challenges faced in funding this important sector, analyses the rapid growth in early stage investment in the EU over the past five years, and outlines an ambitious but achievable growth opportunity that could unlock nearly €25bn a year in additional investment to support nearly 5,000 companies in reaching their potential.

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What’s on your mind: policy priorities in 2023’

December 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

The focus of this event will be to discuss key themes in capital markets policy and regulation in the year ahead and where your company priorities lie. It will also be an opportunity to meet and hear from your peers and share ideas on our upcoming research and events programme around our core themes: • […]

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The mystery of the missing jobs in UK banking and finance

December 2022 • Capital marketsby William Wright

Something funny seems to be going on with the banking and finance industry: the number of jobs in the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the UK economy is shrinking. As the industry prepares for ‘Big Bang 2.0’ the number of people employed by the industry has fallen to its lowest level since shortly after Big Bang 1.0 more than 35 years ago.

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EIOPA’s key priorities for the year ahead with Petra Hielkema, chair of EIOPA

November 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

We are delighted to welcome Petra Hielkema, chair of EIOPA, the European insurance and pensions supervisor as our guest speaker to discuss some EIOPA’s key priorities for the year ahead, including: • The development of pensions and long-term capital in the EU • Closing the protection gap • Sustainability and climate change • Liquidity and […]

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A pension discussion with Dr Florian Toncar, German Federal Ministry of Finance

October 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

The starting point for the discussion with guest speaker Dr Florian Toncar, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance will be the Aktienrente (or ‘share pension’). The important proposed reforms to the German pensions system. No doubt we will also discuss the German perspective on CMU, sustainable finance, and German and EU capital […]

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A reality check on Big Bang 2.0

October 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

A small and informal policy workshop to discuss the findings in our paper on ‘A reality check on Big Bang 2.0.’ The paper frames what we expect to be some of the main announcements in the government’s reform plans for banking and finance in the political context of the last few weeks. We’re hosting two virtual […]

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European banking supervision with Edouard Fernandez-Bollo, ECB

August 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

We are delighted to be hosting Edouard Fernandez-Bollo from the ECB, as our guest speaker to discuss European banking supervision. We expect participants to be a combination of government officials and policymakers from across Europe, and senior executives and policy specialists from across the industry.

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The politics of EU capital markets

August 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

This event, ‘‘The politics of EU capital markets’ marks the launch of our annual benchmarking report on the size, depth and growth potential of EU capital markets. We are delighted to be hosting guest speakers: Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Deputy director general, DG FISMA Sébastien Raspiller, Assistant secretary for the financial sector, French Treasury Brita Hammar, Deputy […]

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A reality check on green finance

May 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

An event to discuss our report: ‘A reality check on green finance’. The report drills down behind the headline numbers to analyse the growth in green finance in Europe, the sources and different types of green finance, and highlights some of the challenges ahead. We will present the headline findings from the report and discuss […]

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CMU with Marcel Haag, DG FISMA

May 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

At this private event, Marcel Haag, director of horizontal policies at DG FISMA will discuss the future of EU capital markets. In his role, Marcel oversees a range of initiatives that cut across all aspects of capital markets, including: capital markets union, sustainable finance, retail financial services, digital finance and technological innovation. The discussion will be […]

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Ukraine, Russia, Westminster – and the City with Edward Lucas

March 2022 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

Edward is the likely next MP for the Cities of London & Westminster (he’s the LibDem candidate) and is a world expert on Ukraine, Russia and ‘Londongrad’. He is a columnist for The Times and former senior editor at The Economist. This is part of our big picture series and will be a fascinating discussion […]

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Report: The wider context on UK public equity markets

January 2021 • Capital marketsby William Wright

One of the biggest challenges and opportunities for UK capital markets is how to reinvigorate the new issue market and to make listing in the UK more attractive to UK and international companies alike. Our latest paper ‘The wider context on UK public equity markets’ is our submission to the UK listings review, being led […]

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Productive investment

December 2020 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

“Water, water, everywhere – nor any drop to drink’: The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner During this event, we will discuss our upcoming paper on ‘Productive investment’. This short paper is the first in a series of papers and events around the theme of ‘rebooting capital markets’ in the UK in the wake of Brexit. […]

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Driving growth: how EU capital markets can support a post-Covid recovery with Nicolas Véron

September 2020 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

We’re delighted to be joined by Nicolas Véron, visiting fellow at Bruegel and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington to discuss our latest report. Nicolas is extraordinarily-well plugged in to both EU and US policy circles and will be sharing his unique insights and perspective on all things capital […]

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Event series: Covid & capital markets

March 2020 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

How the industry responds to the Covid crisis and how it behaves in the next few weeks and months will define its relationship with government and society for the next decade. *But* it will be vital in the coming months that the industry demonstrates a clear sense of purpose and avoids the mistakes and behaviours that […]

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How to improve productivity in the real economy by addressing short-termism in the capital markets with Pension Insurance Corporation

February 2020 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

The breakfast is the latest in the Purpose of Finance initiative on which we are collaborating with Pension Insurance Corporation. We hosted a very successful dinner in October 2019 to discuss a working draft of the paper (I’ve attached a summary of that discussion). This breakfast will focus on concrete and practical recommendations to address […]

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The future of UK capital markets – with Richard Knox, director of international financial services at HM Treasury

December 2019 • Event • Capital marketsby New Financial

With the clock ticking down to Brexit on 31st January, the this dinner will address some of the key questions facing the banking and finance industry in the coming months and years, including: The future of global capital markets and the UK’s potential role The future relationship between the UK and the EU in financial […]

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