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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.

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.”

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.

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.

Hargreaves Lansdown reveals favourite funds in April

Global equity funds are generally popular with Hargreaves Lansdown clients at present

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.

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.

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.

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.

Net platform sales likely to be 50 per cent lower

Assets were last above £500bn in the third quarter of 2018

Real estate firm names the top cities for risk-seeking investors

Savills predicted that the top four cities would retain their positions over the next decade.

Investors Weed Out Their Hedge Fund Managers

Allocations to hedge funds remain stable overall, but investors are giving money to fewer managers, according to a Credit Suisse survey.

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches passive funds

The range consists of five fixed income funds, and three equity funds available only on the Standard Life Wrap and Elevate platforms.

Morning Coffee: The relaxation techniques of the (hedge fund) billionaires. Deutsche Bank's nascent new plan

Some of them will have put up the $15,000 ticket cost out of their own deep pockets, others might have got the shareholders to do so.

Tink’s €56 Million Investment Round

Tink’s launch in five new markets brings its total to nine locations, and significantly boosts its European coverage.

Planning for the future of a family firm

As you might expect, this approach does not tend to produce positive results.

Partnership launched to help interest-only customers

Options for consumers could include a repayment plan, conversion, a remortgage, a property sale or litigation, but the partnership said both the customer and lender would be engaged throughout the journey to resolution.

Pemberton raises €1 billion European credit fund

The fund attracted more than 30 investors from North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, including pension funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals and foundations.

Morningstar IM launches ESG managed portfolios

Five multi-asset portfolios

European PMs add 12 funds to Chilean AFP list

In addition, the CCR approved four Invesco ETFs, including the Invesco EQQQ Nasdaq-100 Ucits ETF, and 11 BlackRock iShares vehicles, including the iShares Edge MSCI Europe Momentum Factor Ucits ETF.

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