07/22/2015
Sweden's Bima raises $38m for further expansion
Bima, the Swedish mobile insurance pioneer backed by private equity, has raised $38m to continue expanding in emerging markets.
Alternative Investments
07/22/2015
Linear Investments acquires AQX Securities assets
Linear Investments has acquired the assets of AQX Securities agency execution business from the Aquila Group.
07/21/2015
Investors flood to untested absolute return funds
Investors feeling buffeted by a run of volatile years are turning increasingly to absolute return funds, which aim to deliver positive returns even in falling markets. This is prudent at the end of a long bull run, but the latest products have yet to be t
07/21/2015
LME Clear receives BoE approval for trade-compression service
The new post-trade, risk-neutral system will allow members to offset multiple trades that have compatible characteristics into a single trade
07/21/2015
La Banque Postale AM reports €1.2bn AUM in SRI in 2014
The asset manager has also highlighted that ESG criteria have been applied to €96.98bn of its total assets under management.
07/21/2015
Chris Hohn's Activist Hedge Fund Has Big First Half Of 2015
Chris Hohn, the London-based activist hedge fund manager, has been having one of the stronger years in the high-profile activist hedge fund arena.
07/20/2015
Brevan Howard switch ends talk of London exodus
It is not clear whether Mr Howard himself will return to London with the other traders. Brevan Howard declined to comment.
07/20/2015
New wave of support for UK sovereign wealth fund
Countries with sovereign wealth funds tend to run fiscal surpluses, something the UK government is a long way from achieving.
07/20/2015
The leadership battle at the top of Libya's sovereign wealth fund
The fund is supposed to manage the nation's oil wealth for the good of its war-torn people, but is itself driven by leadership rivalries
07/20/2015
Hargreaves Lansdown set to add 5,000 clients on Jupiter trust deal
Hargreaves Lansdown is primed to add another 5,000 retail clients to its books through an investment trust deal with Jupiter.
07/20/2015
Ardan ties with RL360° for platform-ready offshore bonds
The tie-up will also allow advisers to apportion part of a policy’s investment to one or more discretionary investment manager
07/17/2015
Zurich to roll Columbia Threadneedle fund range into new proposition
Zurich is to roll its Horizon fund range, managed by Columbia Threadneedle, into the range of funds it launched earlier this year.
07/17/2015
Quality Capital Management Launches QCM AFP UCITS Fund
The decisions are made and executed using fully systematic and quantitative models, thus avoiding emotional and cognitive biases.
07/17/2015
Norwegian net fund sales hit NOK30bn in H1
Investments in equity and balanced funds were particularly noteable from this investor group
07/16/2015
Hedge Fund Manager Perry Says Greek Bonds Could Trade at Par
Perry also said that Puerto Rico is in better shape than most people realize and he’s bullish on the commonwealth’s debt.
07/16/2015
Aviva imposes exit charge on giant Property Trust
Fund group levies 4.7% charge from investors withdrawing from the £2 billion Aviva Property Trust after a change in its manager.
07/16/2015
Local investment managers are happy to help all investors
Research from the Financial Times has revealed London consumers need an average of £806,000 to invest in order to access the services of a private client wealth manager.
07/16/2015
Prudential Portfolio Management Group hires head of multiasset
The role is an expansion of a role previously held by Matthew Williams, who left the firm in January.
07/16/2015
Garraway's David Urch aims for £1bn fund
When respected UK equity manager David Urch joined EEA Fund Management it may have raised a few eyebrows.
07/16/2015
Qatar fund's ex-head sticks with EU assets
It also agreed to pay HK$9.3 billion to buy a stake in Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing's electric utility last month.