Nationwide to Greggs: King’s honours list champions UK business leaders June 14, 2025 Entrepreneurs and company chiefs in tech, recruitment and banking have been recognised for their contributions to UK business in the King’s birthday honours. Microsoft UK boss Clare Barclay and ceramics founder Emma Bridgewater, dubbed the “queen of pottery”, received damehoods for services to business. Nationwide chief executive Debbie Crosbie, who led a £2.3bn takeover of [...]
L&G developer: Londoners don’t want cookie-cutter high streets June 11, 2025 Londoners don't want cookie-cutter high streets. Indie retail is the key to urban regeneration, writes L&G head of place Denz Ibrahim.
Legal & General CEO: Urgent action is needed to get Brits saving more, earlier June 10, 2025 For a happy retirement, savers need a £220,000 pension pot. That means urgent action is needed now to get people to save more, earlier, says António Simões Whether it’s families around the dinner table or government around the cabinet table, pensions deserve to be a part of a national conversation. The government has rightly put [...]
Puma to move UK head office from London to Manchester May 1, 2025 Puma is to relocate its UK head office from London to Manchester after signing up to take space in a new £87m building. The global sportswear brand is to take 20,000 sq ft at 3 Circle Square in the city centre, which is due to open this summer. The head office will become home to [...]
Legal & General: FTSE 100 giant hikes shareholder returns after strong year March 12, 2025 Asset management and insurance giant Legal & General has reported a six per cent increase in core operating profit for 2024. Core operating profit hit £1.6bn and pre-tax profit under IFRS accounting standards stood at £542m. Off the back of these robust numbers Legal & General announced a £500m share buyback for 2025, as part [...]
Legal & General shares soar as firm sells US insurance business for £1.8bn February 7, 2025 Following the deal, Meiji Yasuda will own L&G's US protection business and have a 20 per cent economic interest in its pension risk transfer (PRT) business.
The stocks and shares ISA millionaires are buying January 27, 2025 Legal & General is the most-held stock among all ISA millionaires using DIY investing service Hargreaves Lansdown, with fellow insurers Phoenix and Aviva joining the firm for the most popular shares. Funds run by Legal & General also make up half of the top funds invested in by the 1,322 ISA millionaires using Hargreaves Lansdown, [...]
Legal & General-backed London data centre finally gets planning approval October 16, 2024 Local government ministers have unanimously approved planning proposals for what is set to be one of London’s largest data centres. The £750m development in the Newham borough of London is joint-funded by asset management firm Legal and General (L&G) and digital infrastructure investor Goldacre. It will be able to deliver from 77 up to 90 megawatts of [...]
Bosses at world’s biggest banks: Britain is ‘ready for investment’ October 14, 2024 Bosses at five of the world’s biggest banks, along with a host of insurers, private equity firms and tech giants, have backed a push to invest in the UK ahead of the government’s flagship investment summit today. More than a dozen executives signed a letter stating that they were optimistic about the future of the [...]
Legal & General: FTSE 100 giant appoints Eric Adler to lead asset management September 24, 2024 "In a competitive global search, Eric stood out for his growth orientation," boss António Simões said.