March 2022 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
This conference will be hosted with the Atlantic Council, one of the pre-eminent think tanks in the US, as the launch event for our joint report on the future of the UK financial sector. Details of the senior speakers from government, regulators and the industry will be published soon. The main themes of the report […]
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March 2022 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
A workshop event to discuss the findings of our concept paper on ‘financial health checks’ as a way of engaging and empowering millions of individuals with their money. We think these health checks would help improve their financial well-being, financial resilience, and financial literacy – and to provide a long-term boost to the UK and […]
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February 2022 • Capital markets • by Panagiotis Asimakopoulos, Eivind Friis Hamre & William Wright
This report presents a new vision for EU capital markets and identifies the potential for game-changing growth to support investment, jobs, and sustainable growth. We estimate that an additional 4,800 companies in the EU27 could raise an extra €535bn per year in the capital markets and that an additional €14tn in long-term capital could be put to work in the EU economy to help support a recovery.
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November 2021 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
We look forward to hosting Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, and Chair of the APPG for financial markets and services, as our guest speaker as part of our ongoing ‘Meet the MP’ event series. Bim is a former corporate lawyer and banker, and is particularly active in parliament on the debate around financial […]
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August 2021 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
The launch event for our annual benchmark report on the size, depth, and growth potential of EU capital markets this year will focus on the future of EU capital markets in the context of ‘strategic autonomy’. We are also pleased to be joined by Anthony Attia, Global head of primary markets & post-trade at Euronext, […]
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February 2021 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
Gareth Davies is the MP for Grantham and Stamford and was recently appointed to the Finance Select Committee. He was first elected in 2019 and before his political career, he worked at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, most recently as global head of responsible investment. In Parliament, Gareth has been very involved in debates on the future […]
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December 2020 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
New Financial is delighted to host a series of virtual roundtables with Lord Hill to discuss and feed into the UK Listings Review. Tuesday 19th January – The asset management/ investor perspective Wednesday 20th January – The investment bank/ broker perspective Topics for discussion will include: Exploring the different perspectives on how to unlock more […]
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July 2019 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
Over the past decade, politics around the world has been turned on its head by the rise of populism, a collapse in trust in the traditional social and political order, and a growing ‘crisis of capitalism’. Elites in western democracies have struggled to understand and respond to what has been driving this fundamental shift, often […]
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April 2019 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
This dinner that we are hosting with Huw van Steenis will focus on the forthcoming report on ‘The future of finance’ that Huw is working on for Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. Huw was appointed last year as a special adviser to Governor Carney and as part of that role he is leading a […]
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March 2019 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
This private breakfast with Juan Solé, senior London representative in the IMF’s markets division, will focus on European financial stability in light of the latest IMF global financial stability report due to be published in a few weeks. Juan and his team ran the analysis and wrote the European section of the report, and this […]
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March 2019 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
Our next policy breakfast will see the launch of our latest report on the ‘great leap forward’ in EU capital markets that we’re publishing next month. This is our fifth annual report on the capital markets across the EU and it provides a unique benchmark for each sector and country, analyses how the size relative […]
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August 2018 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
This breakfast event will focus on how not to talk about ‘responsible business’, a recurring theme in our work. Every firm likes to talk about being ‘responsible’, but what do firms in banking and finance really mean when they talk about ‘responsible business’? Do they focus too much on their green credentials and their charity […]
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July 2018 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
We think this is our most important report yet: we set out to analyse the relevance of capital markets to people’s everyday lives in the form of a report on the role that capital markets play in supporting the economy of the North West of England. While the report is focused on the North West, […]
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July 2018 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
We think this is our most important report yet: we set out to analyse the relevance of capital markets to people’s everyday lives in the form of a report on the role that capital markets play in supporting the economy of the North West of England. While the report is focused on the North West, […]
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April 2018 • Event • Making a better case for capital markets • by New Financial
In the past few months, Jeremy Corbyn has warned that ‘gamblers and speculators’ in the City should be more afraid of a Labour government than of Brexit, that levels of pay and bonuses in the City are unacceptable, and that finance should be ‘the servant of the real economy rather than the master of us […]
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April 2018 • Making a better case for capital markets • by William Wright
The asset management industry is a huge, important and growing industry, that plays a vital economic and societal role in managing risk and return for its customers and in allocating capital. But it can often be distracted from its underlying purpose of serving is customers by the structure of the industry, misaligned incentives, and its reliance on modern portfolio theory. In an important recent paper, Jon Lukomnik and Jim Hawley explore the underlying purpose of asset management, and how to reconnect the industry with that purpose.
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