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The average cost of renting a Scottish property has risen just 1.1 per cent in the last year. The figure announced by Your Move represents the slowest increase in almost two years.

The FTSE 100 Index climbed above the 7,000 mark on Friday for the first time in its history. It came as world markets were buoyed by a small recovery in the price of oil as well as hopeful signs over the Greek debt crisis.

KPMG has made a number of senior external appointments across its Scottish offices. Russell Irwin has joined KPMG’s Edinburgh office as a director supporting Sam Subesinghe leading the IT advisory and technology risk team in Scotland, as part of KPMG’s management consulting function.

Scots are increasingly more confident about their ability to repay debts according to PwC’s latest report on the consumer credit industry. The ‘big four’ firm’s ‘Precious Plastic: How Britons fell back in love with borrowing’ report found that only just over one in ten are worried about

Flaws in the insolvency system have been exposed by the collapse of delivery firm City Link, according to two groups of MPs. A joint report from two parliamentary committees has concluded that the current system is too heavily skewed in favour of investors over workers.

The adoption of AI to improve efficiencies will see Barclays cut staff numbers by around 5000 by the end of 2026. The bank employed in the region of 93,000 people at the turn of the year, with the cuts affecting around 5% of staff.

More than four in five (82%) finance leaders in the UK and Ireland say they feel under pressure to adopt AI in their finance function faster than they are currently comfortable with, according to new research. According to a survey carried out by AccountsIQ, which delivers cloud accounting software

Fidelity Asian Values saw its discount to net asset value (NAV) narrow, but its NAV total return of 6.1% trailed the 9.1% return of its benchmark, the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index, after missing out on the AI rally in the year to 31 July 2026. The share price total return for the y

JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI) trailed its benchmark for a second successive year, returning 7.2% on net assets against 9.8% for the index in the 12 months to 31 July. Shareholders vote on 23 November on whether the trust should continue, as the company prepares to absorb Aberdeen

  Residents in Glasgow and Sheffield were found to be the least confident cities about their pension savings in the UK, according to new research.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised the UK Government for taking "decisive measures to cut future spending and raise taxes as it urged ministers to "stay the course" ahead of its upcoming Budget. Kristaline Georgieva, the institution's managing director, claimed Britain's budget defici

As Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust warns that low turnout could hand Saba the board, ShareSoc says the real problem isn’t apathy but invisibility. ShareSoc, which represents more than 9,500 private investors, said the problem is more complex, explaining that shareholders don’t know they

Independent voting experts Glass Lewis, ISS and PIRC have backed the board of Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust urging shareholders to vote against Saba Capital Management's requisition request to install three of its nominees onto the board.

Around 30% of Scots say annuities feel “too difficult to understand”, according to a survey by Legal & General (L&G). The insurer polled 2,000 UK adults aged 50 and over and used the findings to launch “Annuity Myth Busters”, a guide to common misconceptions about whe

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income has attributed its underperformance over the year to June 2026 to “unfavourable stock selection”, with its net asset value (NAV) total return trailing its benchmark by 11 percentage points. The trust delivered a NAV total return of 16.7%, compared with