05/09/2019
Results of the Annual General Meeting of GAM Holding AG 2019
We understand this decision of some shareholders in the context of the continued liquidation of the ARBF funds.
Alternative Investments
05/09/2019
IEA: Renewables Growth Is Stalling
Thanks to rapidly declining costs, the competitiveness of renewables is no longer heavily tied to financial incentives.
05/09/2019
Why Humans Of Business can inspire a human revolution
It’s a fascinating series, well worth watching.
05/09/2019
Hansard - trading update
All figures refer to this period, except where indicated. Year to date figures refer to 1 July 2018 to 31 March 2019.
05/09/2019
Generali targets smaller insurance companies to grow in Europe
The central and eastern Europe small and medium size insurance firms, which are unable to cope with complex regulation, are potential targets, Donnet added.
05/08/2019
DouglasBay Capital III Fund’s €335 Million Fundraising
DBAY Advisors’ core team has been working together for nearly 15 years and combines a diversified set of skills from financial and operational backgrounds, with deep insight into a number of industry sectors.
05/08/2019
It felt like Fatal Attraction, says wife stalked by her hedge fund boss husband's mistress
But when she told him she was carrying his child, the wealthy 55-year-old broke off their affair, sparking a barrage of abuse towards his wife, the court heard.
05/08/2019
PWC: UK insurers could bag £49.5bn ‘disruption’ boost by 2030
The report said that emerging risks and new tech could “drive disruption in commercial lines insurance equivalent to 25 percent of current revenues”, with an estimated market uplift of £27.6 billion by 2030.
05/08/2019
House prices rebound in April
In terms of housing activity, the number of homes being bought and sold remained steady.
05/08/2019
Fairstone acquires Leicester adviser
Brett & Randall, which specialises in the management of investment and retirement portfolios and is based in Leicester, will bring across three advisers and seven support staff.
05/08/2019
Assenagon's infrastructure debt funds exceed €1bn
These projects include, amongst others, several airports and harbours, various wind and solar power plants, a seawater desalination plant, several social housing projects and a number of transport routes and means of transportation.
05/07/2019
Baillie Gifford opens office in Germany
Frankfurt is just the start of this journey to extend the reach of our existing team in Edinburgh and explore opportunities across the region.
05/07/2019
New MGA platform targeting European insurance market launches
By reliably tackling the operational complexity, Ekkore serves as a key success factor for any party involved into an MGA project, either an underwriting agency itself, a broker, an insurer or a reinsurer.”
05/07/2019
Former Aon president McGill sees opportunity as M&As limit choice
“When you look at the corporate client sector, especially as the accounts became larger or more complex, there was a lack of choice because of the M&A activity that had taken place in the industry over time.
05/07/2019
Precise changes affordability test
Precise is now accepting top-slicing on all eligible personal ownership, limited company, portfolio, house of multiple occupancy, and holiday and student let applications, but first-time buyers are excluded.
05/07/2019
Hargreaves Lansdown reveals favourite funds in April
Global equity funds are generally popular with Hargreaves Lansdown clients at present
05/07/2019
Woodford to shake up flagship fund
Mr Woodford promised that the unquoted exposure in the equity income fund would drop below 10 per cent by the end of this year.
05/06/2019
Will you stay at Prince Charles’ B&B?
The Castle of Mey was bought by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and renovated from 1952 to 1996, then handed over to The Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust.
05/03/2019
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (Japan) selected Acumen-net to be deployed across 6 Overseas Offices to support their Treasury Operations
SuMiTB was also looking for the solution with a single common database to facilitate its global system management while overcoming the induced challenges of time zones, volume and confidentiality across offices.
05/03/2019
Investors miss out on rally as £1bn pulled from funds
'Despite negative fund sales so far this year, markets have actually started off on a bit of a tear, rebounding sharply from a weak end to 2018,' said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.