March 14, 2026

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Insurance

Average UK Car Insurance Premiums Fall to £607 | Honest John

The average car insurance premium is now more than a third cheaper than the 2023 peak, with drivers saving an average of £122 in the past year alone. That equates to a 16% saving in 12 months. It’s the over-80s who’ve done best of all, with an 18% saving in car insurance between 2024 and

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Wealth Management

Private Markets Transform Wealth Portfolio Construction

In this episode of the Wealth Management Invest podcast, host David Bodamer speaks with Dave Donahoo, head of Americas, Wealth Management Alternatives at Franklin Templeton, about how private equity, private credit and real estate are increasingly shaping portfolio construction within the wealth channel. Dave shares how Franklin Templeton approaches private markets, evaluates semi-liquid fund structures

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Fund

Robinhood Ventures Fund I launches IPO roadshow for $1 billion offering By Investing.com

Robinhood Ventures Fund I filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 40 million common shares of beneficial interest at an expected price of $25 per share, according to a company statement. The offering consists of 35 million shares from RVI and 5 million shares from , the selling shareholder. RVI

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Wealth Management

Wealth management firm hails £1 billion milestone

A national wealth management firm is celebrating a £1 billion milestone. Fairstone has revealed its Nova Managed Portfolio Service has reached the financial landmark. Officials say the success – a year after the platform’s launch – is “testament to the attractiveness of Nova and the hard work which has gone into its creation and development”.

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Wealth Management

The Case For Breaking Up With Your Health Tracker

These are all useful for spotting patterns, guiding recovery or alerting you to potential health issues. Less important, she cautions, are “caloric burn estimates, body composition metrics, stress readings, and readiness scores”, as they can often induce anxiety without doing much to improve outcomes. “Obsessively tracking sleep quality or heart health can create a pressure

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Technology

AI’s workplace revolution is here – and anxiety is rising with it | Technology

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, The Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you while cheering on Team USA in the Winter Olympics. Introducing our new series about AI and the future of work Throughout 2026, The Guardian will publish a series of stories about how artificial intelligence is affecting modern

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Property

Scottish property veteran launches new AI letting platform

Prop247, launching this month, offers remote property management through a blend of advanced technology and on the ground support. Read more Mr Alexander, co-founder of Prop247, said: “The lettings sector is the one area of property that hasn’t benefited from technological innovation. “We’ve built a groundbreaking platform, borne out of 40 plus years’ experience in

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Stock Brokers

Artificial intelligence ‘creeping into’ high-risk stock trading

Nearly three million people in the UK are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools when making financial decisions, with a worrying increase in those using it to trade on the stock market. AI is becoming part of everyday life for many people, but as they get used to it helping them to manage finances, they

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Fund

Thrive Capital raises $10B for its largest fund to date

Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital has raised more than $10 billion for its largest-ever fund, Thrive X, giving the firm substantial capital to target opportunities in AI, robotics, space exploration, and the life sciences sector. The new fund, twice the size of its previous fund, targets to allocate $1 billion to early-stage ventures and $9 billion

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Stock Brokers

Plan for extended stock trading hours in Canada could be ‘profoundly disruptive,’ TSX warns

Aspiring equity marketplace CIX Trading Inc. wants to bring extended stock trading hours to Canada, but the Toronto Stock Exchange says the upstart plan poses a potential threat to the stability and integrity of the country’s capital markets. In a letter submitted to the Ontario Securities Commission last month, TMX Group Ltd. X-T, parent company

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