09/14/2020
IQ-EQ’s L&D framework recognised in Personnel Today Awards
Winners will be announced on 26 November
Alternative Investments
09/14/2020
Investing into UK growth companies
The team also has a strong focus on helping their portfolio companies achieve steady, sustainable growth.
09/14/2020
Record number of underperforming ‘dog’ funds
List of 150 funds reveals the severe impact of pandemic on returns
09/14/2020
AXA IM: Credit downgrades present serious challenges for UK pension funds
He points out that credit downgrades have been issuer and sector specific, exacerbating the existing problem of issuer and sector concentrations
09/14/2020
Euronext confirms takeover interest in London Stock Exchange arsine
The operation began once it was recently granted licenses from Brazil's Central Bank and its securities regulator.
09/14/2020
‘Eurostar For Business’ platform unveiled to support business travel
Organisations signed up to the portal will also gain access to tailored content as well as exclusive promotional fares, ensuring they are being rewarded for choosing Eurostar for their business trips.
09/14/2020
Four in five UK adults say they don’t have a ‘pension will’
New insight reveals lack of ‘pension wills’ at the start of Pensions Awareness Week
09/14/2020
Guernsey-based support and advisory services provider Aspida extends invitation to Impact Investing webinar this Thursday 17 September
Impact Investing is experiencing phenomenal growth, doubling in size in the last two years
09/14/2020
ECB explores digital euro: state backing essential for trust in payments, money
Lagarde acknowledged that digital wholesale money is not new, but the technology to be used to make financial transactions more efficient will be.
09/11/2020
Lloyd's of London expects £5bn in Covid-19 insurance payouts
Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss
09/11/2020
BlackRock launches ESG multi-asset ETFs
Joe Parkin, head of banks and digital channels in the UK at BlackRock, said: “There has never been a more important time for people to take control of their financial well-being.
09/11/2020
Luxembourg becomes first European country to launch a sustainability bond framework
This framework is compliant with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Green, Social and Sustainability Bonds 2018 principles.
09/11/2020
Guernsey funds attracting increasing PE investment from US
Guernsey has proved to be a simple route for US investors to access European and UK markets, attracted by our time zone, range of structures and ease of accessing European markets through the national private placement regime.
09/11/2020
Fundsquare and Kurtosys partner to facilitate asset management data disclosure
Kurtosys and Fundsquare have formed a new partnership aimed at enabling asset managers to comply with data disclosure requirements, from dissemination to publication.
09/10/2020
Columbia Threadneedle Reopens Dealing In Retail Property Fund
This meant the valuer was unable to provide an appropriate level of certainty regarding the valuation of the Fund’s assets in the market environment at the time.
09/10/2020
Hedge funds on a roll with strongest five-month showing since early 2000
Year-to-date, the index is now up more than 2 per cent since the start of 2020.
09/10/2020
Montanaro launches global ‘best ideas’ fund
The Montanaro Global Select fund is managed by Citywire AA-rated Charles Montanaro and Andrea Shen, with the former saying it is likely to be the last new mandate he takes on.
09/09/2020
Property funds won't rush to reopen despite removal of valuation uncertainty
The Clause being removed gives the funds the ability to reopen, but not the obligation.
09/09/2020
Majedie and UK trusts under pressure as investors pull £1.2bn from funds
Calastone highlighted the three-month period to the end of August coincided with the UK government’s formal rejection of an extension to the Brexit transition period in early June.
09/09/2020
Nuveen Real Estate expands its European Logistics platform
The first European Logistics mandate launched in 2016 and invested over €620 million across 21 assets in key European locations