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BLKB achieves solid results in the first half of the year

The results of the first half of the year confirm that we have set the right course for the future with our investments.

Family offices embracing private equity

This year, in 2024, nearly 30 per cent of family offices plan to invest more into private equity.

UK and Ireland-based accountancy and wealth manager Sagars rebrands to AAB

Sagars merged with AAB in 2021, widening the breadth and depth of services they provide to businesses and individuals

Pollen Street Capital’s £432m acquisition of Mattioli Woods delayed by security act

Mattioli Woods agreed to be taken private by private equity firm Pollen Street in a deal in March.

FCA's Crackdown on Wealth Management Non-Compliance with Consumer Duty: How to avoid this…!

FCA: “We expect you to have implemented the Consumer Duty in full, which requires you to put the needs of your consumers first.

Macfarlanes advises long standing client Ares Management on providing financing to Lovell Minnick on the merger between London & Capital and Waverton

The merger is expected to create an independent wealth and asset manager with assets under management over £19bn.

Belgium's Delen Private Bank to buy smaller rival Dierickx Leys

Financial details of the takeover were not disclosed, but Delen Private Bank - in which Belgian holding company Ackermans & Van Haren is a shareholder

Seizing equity opportunities at the sector level

Yet after solid gains year-to-date, the argument for taking more equity risk now looks less appealing.

The Stonehage Fleming View: Philanthropy

All are aware of the fact that wealth, often combined with specific family expertise, has the ability to effect significant change.

Credit Suisse Veterans Lead Shakeup of Opel Family Office

Marina Viergutz, Susanne Reinhard join Opel family’s GVO

Stern granted Swiss asset management licence

The firm’s partners and the Stern family account for approximately 20% of the firm’s assets under management.

Wealth managers try to avoid 'conversational cul de sacs' on philanthropy

Clients are often happy to discuss particular charities which they support – especially if someone in their family received outstanding care in the past.

Basel investment firm to merge with billionaire’s asset manager

The tie-up between special situation investment firm Youngtimers and Hong Kong billionaire Adrian Cheng’s C Capital is set to allow the latter to be listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Impax Asset Management Group plc completes acquisition of fixed income assets of Absalon Corporate Credit

With the completion of the acquisition, Absalon’s Global High Yield and Emerging Market Corporate Debt strategies become part of Impax’s fixed income range, with funds available on Impax’s Irish-based UCITS platform.

Close Bros’ wealth arm in fresh talks over £200m sale

Private equity house Oaktree Capital Management is rumoured to be in talks to buy Close Brothers Asset Management.

Pictet’s head of fund research lifts the lid on current searches

Sébastien Gentizon talks through his team’s strategy and how its high-conviction approach feeds into the Swiss bank’s wider thinking.

CHF 610m fundraise propels Swiss Life property fund to top table

With a market cap of around CHF 2.5bn, the strategy is now one of the five largest listed real estate funds in Switzerland.

Vontobel merges German AM subsidiary with sister company

Company hopes integration will enable it to pool its strengths and become more efficient.

Wealth managers grapple with long client onboarding times, study shows

The experience of wealth management professionals varies between the UK and the other markets included in the survey.

PIMFA sets out 5-year agenda for government to create a UK Culture of Thriving Financial Health

PIMFA believes that this can be done primarily by equipping retail investors with the tools and incentives necessary to save and invest for their financial futures.

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