Investment manager IPS Capital LLP has merged with a close neighbour – wealth manager and Financial Planner Prospect Wealth Management. Both firms are based in the City of London, a short distance from each other. The Prospect deal will increase IPS’s total assets under management to more than £600m. IPS is a boutique multi-asset investment manager. […]
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How to be a digital nomad
Are you kicking the shackles of a cubicle and taking your gig on the open road? You must be stoked! There’s a growing cohort of people out there in all sorts of industries who are doing the same thing. We call them ‘digital nomads’ and they can be defined as a group of professionals in […]
How workflow technologies drive new efficiencies in your bookkeeping practice
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‘UPI Chalega’ campaign to cast the net wider
A microsite UPIChalega.com has also been setup where users can access information about live banks and third-party apps. India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is all set to get its ‘Mutual Fund Sahi Hai’ moment. Awareness campaigns and adoption drives for popular payments interface is set to flood India’s media space as regulators and government bodies […]
Flipkart leads Walmart’s international e-commerce numbers
US retail giant Walmart on Tuesday reported that ecommerce contributed 12% to its international sales during the quarter ended January 31, led by Flipkart and online grocery delivery in several markets. In its fourth quarter earnings report, the company said that international sales had grown by 2.3% to $33 billion, despite a disruption in Chile […]
Social media companies to join hands for cleanup
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi The world’s biggest social media companies, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and ByteDance, are exploring an industry-wide alliance to curb fake news on their platforms in India, even as the government finalises regulations aimed at censoring content. The proposed alliance — to be named the Information Trust Alliance (ITA) — will be a […]
ShareChat to stay focused on users, unique content
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi ShareChat will continue to focus on growing and retaining users over monetising the platform, a top executive of the homegrown social media platform told ET, even as the app faces intense competition from Chinese ByteDance-owned short video platforms TikTok and Helo in India. In the last six months, ShareChat has consciously boosted […]
Older workers are staying in the job market. Here’s why
Welcome to Retirement Scan, our daily roundup of retirement news your clients may be talking about Older workers are sticking around the job market. This is whyThe number of workers aged 65 and above increased by 697,000 as the economy created more than 2 million new jobs over the past 12 months, according to data […]
Partner Pages 2020: All in on advisory
By Ben Chandler, Principal, Strategy1, Tasmania Accountant Ben Chandler left sunny Queensland for the brisk, cool climate of Tasmania nearly ten years ago. But it wasn’t just a change of scenery that he discovered upon his arrival. Following a visit to his local Xero roadshow, Ben was introduced to the wonders of cloud-based accounting and […]
No need to report some transactions in video game currency, IRS says
Gamers who transact in virtual currencies as part of a video game do not have to report the transactions on a tax return if the currencies do not leave the game environment, the IRS made clear in a statement released on its website Feb. 14. The clarification relates to whether, or when, a currency used […]