The fourth season of US sitcom ‘Arrested Development’ was launched by Netflix on Sunday 26th May – all 15 episodes at once, for your binge viewing pleasure. It isn’t the first time Netflix has done this – in February 2013 the remade drama series ‘House of Cards’ was given an exclusive release online to a [...]
In this report published by MHP today (and making headline news in the Times), members of our senior team give their views on how politics will unfold over the next two years. Will the Coalition Government stay together until the 2015 general election? Can the Conservatives recover and win on their own? Can the Liberal [...]
For a full list of Bills announced in today’s Queen’s Speech read our briefing online here: Queen’s Speech Briefing 2013 Some bold reforms but the real story lies elsewhere In the early hours of this morning Number 10 aides were in the Parliamentary press gallery briefing lobby journalists on the strategy behind the Government programme. [...]
Read our full sector by sector Budget briefing online HERE. Overview: In today’s Budget, the chancellor, George Osborne, confirmed that Austerity Britain is here to stay – beyond the 2015 general election. Once again, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has slashed its growth forecasts. The OBR now predicts a growth rate of 0.6 per [...]
Click here to download MHP’s full report on Financial Services – The Year Ahead 2013 If 2012 was a bad year for the British economy with low growth and high inflation set against a backdrop of crisis in the Eurozone and rate fixing scandals at home, it doesn’t look as if 2013 will fare much [...]
This morning, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered his long‐awaited major speech on Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. He promised that the Conservative Manifesto for the 2015 general election will contain a commitment to negotiate a “new settlement” with the UK’s European partners in the next Parliament, and when the new settlement has been reached, [...]
Welcome to the second issue of MHP’s Reputation Matters for Pension Trustees. The 2012 issue includes a number of contributions which we hope will prove useful to trustees considering reputational issues facing their scheme. David Blackman, Editor of Engaged Investor, touches on many of these issues in a wide-ranging article on what trustees should be [...]
More than a third of the European investment industry’s leading figures see equities as offering the most compelling investment returns over the next year, according to MHP Communications’ annual survey on the future of the European pensions & investment industry; though the proportion taking this view was down to 35%, compared with 47% last year, [...]
At MHP Communications we’ve noticed an ever increasing trend for ministers to line up to associate themselves with companies and organisations that are seen to be delivering growth. That’s why, for the second year running, we’ve conducted an analysis of the organisations most frequently ‘name dropped’ in ministerial speeches. We’ve called this research the MHP [...]
The Government’s health and social care reforms have placed significant emphasis on the integration of services to improve the quality of care for people and deliver greater efficiencies. In practical terms, the Government has put its money where its mouth is by allocating an additional £2 billion per annum by 2014/15 to social care through the [...]