The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is monitoring how law firms could be affected by the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. 

Boosting the quality and quantity of apprenticeships through construction SMEs will be the key focus of the new National President of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Pat McFadden MP says to be pro-Single Market in a post-Brexit world, is "to be pro-investment, pro jobs, pro-workers and pro-decency at work."

Alan Mak MP writes ahead of today's Backbench Business House of Commons debate on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which he is leading.

Two thirds of SME house builders are yet to see any significant changes to their project pipelines in the wake of Brexit, new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has revealed.

A third of young people (32%) aged 16 to 21 in the UK aren’t confident about finding a job in the next few years and lack information about local job opportunities (35%), according to a new report published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and EY Foundation - Age of Uncertainty: Young people’s views on the challenges of getting into work in 21st century Britain.  

The Department for Education has not set out how it will use the increase in apprenticeship numbers to deliver improvement in productivity, and how it will influence the mix of apprenticeships in order to deliver the most value, according to the National Audit Office.

Theresa May needs to be up front about budget winners and losers if she wants to be taken seriously on life chances, according to two Labour members of the Treasury Select Committee.

Responding to Jeremy Corbyn's new Digital Democracy Manifesto, which was launched today, the Tinder Foundation's Chief Executive Helen Milner issued the following statement:

A team of colleagues at Airbus in Filton have swapped contracts, emails, and meetings for cycling, running, and swimming in a bid to travel more than 1000 miles in less than two months.

Former Minister & Labour NEC member Pat McFadden MP believes that Britain's working class communities need a 21st Century Marshall Plan to offer new hope, following the referendum where many of these areas voted heavily to leave the EU.

The Investment Association's monthly statistics of UK investor behaviour in July 2016 show:

- Funds under management at record high of £989 billion

- Funds under management rose by £40 billion in July

- Total sales (retail and institutional combined) were -£506 million

- Fixed income funds were popular in July with net retail sales of £1.1 billion

- Equity funds saw an outflow of £2.2 billion

- Property funds experienced an outflow of £792 million

Commenting on the latest report by Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, said:

The largest teachers union has commented on the latest report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Research released today by the Chartered Management Institute and XpertHR reveals that men are more likely than women to have been promoted into senior and higher paying management roles in the past year, with no progress made on reducing the 23% gender pay gap.  

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has pledged £14 million to its Northumberland operations.

Today the Building Societies Association (BSA) releases mortgage lending and savings figures for all 44 building societies for the second quarter of 2016.

New apprenticeship funding proposals announced today by the Government look like a ‘fair settlement for small employers’, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). 

Investment in infrastructure could help mitigate the risks of Brexit, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

CMA’s final report into the retail banking market is a missed opportunity to create a competitive banking sector that better serves businesses and personal consumers

Former Labour Shadow Chief Secretary Rachel Reeves writes that today's CMA report into the retail banking market has not gone nearly far enough to tackle excessive charges faced by consumers.

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  Equity fund returns are 0.71% above index returns per annum, higher than the -1.59% underperformance expected based on charges and transaction costs, suggesting there are not hidden fees in funds

  
  


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  The average portfolio turnover rate in equity funds is 40%, which also brings the hidden-fees hysteria, and claims of fund manager overtrading, into doubt

  
  


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  Our forthcoming Disclosure Code will standardise fee disclosure including implicit cost estimates across all investment products