By: Maisie Grice

Investment Reporter Maisie Grice is CityAM’s investment reporter. She completed the Financial Time’s newsroom apprenticeship, working on specialist magazine Investors’ Chronicle and the UK news desk before joining FT Money as a personal finance reporter. She also worked as a regional news reporter at the Manchester Evening News, covering live events, crime and local politics.

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Burnham hints at payout for Waspi women claiming billions

Politics

Andy Burnham has suggested he would support more than 3.5m women who are seeking compensation, hinting at a billions of pounds spending commitment if he enters Downing Street. The Makerfield by-election candidate has long been an outspoken supporter for the so-called Waspi women, a cohort born in the 1950s who claim they lost thousands of [...]
SpaceX is preparing for blast off, but will the mega IPO send investors into orbit?

Markets

SpaceX is set to launch the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO as part of its hotly anticipated listing on the Nasdaq tomorrow, with around 30 per cent of shares reserved for retail investors. Bret Johnsen, SpaceX CFO, has said the unusually large allocation is a deliberate recognition of “folks that have [...]
Making the jump to self-employment could damage your pension savings

Personal Finance

Employees making the leap into self-employment could put their retirement at risk, with many unlikely to continue saving into a pension upon leaving auto-enrolment. Roughly one in five self-employed workers save into a private pension, compared with around four in five employees, leaving those working for themselves at greater risk of having insufficient savings upon [...]

Government sets out conditions for unlocking ‘trapped capital’ in defined benefit pension schemes

June 10, 2026

The government has published a consultation setting out conditions on freeing ‘trapped’ capital from defined benefit pension schemes, in a bid to keep pace with the rapidly changing pension landscape and free up greater amounts of capital. The consultation, published on Wednesday by the Department of Work and Pensions, set out plans to give trustees [...]
Thames Water eyes return to London Stock Exchange while Pennon back in profit

June 10, 2026

There was a stark reminder for the City of the risks and rewards on offer to investors in water utilities on Wednesday, from two of the industry’s biggest names. One of them, Thames Water, is eyeing a return to the London Stock Exchange after a disastrous spell in private hands loaded it with debt and [...]
Asian markets sink again as tech sell-off reignites on Wall Street

June 10, 2026

Asian markets have plunged into the red during Wednesday trading, as the widespread tech sell-off reignited once more on Wall Street. Chipmakers and companies tied to the AI investment boom dragged US stocks down on Tuesday, as last week’s tech jitters came back to plague the market just days before SpaceX’s anticipated listing. The Nasdaq [...]
Pension funds must ’embrace’ private markets to fuel growth

June 10, 2026

UK pension funds must stop hiding in public equity benchmarks and ‘embrace’ private markets in order to meet their obligations and accelerate economic growth, the group chief executive of one of the UK’s largest pension providers has argued. Andrew Evans, co-founder and group CEO of Smart Pension, urged providers to steer away from public markets [...]
‘We do not accept the FCA’s characterisation’: Neil Woodford firm responds to watchdog

June 9, 2026

Former star fund manager Neil Woodford’s comeback venture has hit back at the UK financial watchdog, arguing it ‘does not accept’ the regulator’s characterisation of the business after the FCA launched civil proceedings. W Four Point Zero FZE, which trades as W4.0 and is registered in the United Arab Emirates, rebuffed the Financial Conduct Authority’s [...]
‘Novel and extreme’: Analysts calls out SpaceX governance days before IPO

June 9, 2026

Analysts and major institutional investors have expressed alarm over the corporate governance of SpaceX as its Wall Street debut creeps closer. The concerns from institutional investors, in particular public pension funds, over corporate governance at Elon Musk’s space tech company “run deep”, with firms in New York and California deeming the structure “novel and extreme”. [...]
OpenAI files to go public as the race between tech giants heats up

June 9, 2026

OpenAI has confirmed plans for an initial public offering as it looks to beat fellow artificial intelligence giant Anthropic to Wall Street. The artificial intelligence firm, led by chief executive Sam Altman, submitted paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO on Monday. OpenAI did not disclose the size or terms of [...]

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