03/22/2015
Buy-to-let: bank offers 113pc mortgages – on repossessed flats in Spain
Banco Popular is offering zero-deposit mortgages on Spanish holiday homes in a desperate bid to shift unwanted properties
Alternative Investments
03/20/2015
Investec's Stopford hedges 'vulnerable' US equities
Investec Asset Management's John Stopford has begun hedging US equity exposure in his Diversified Income fund
03/20/2015
Cordea Savills proposes to acquire SEB Asset Management for 21.5m euros
Property consulting group Savills plc is proposing to acquire prominent German investment management group SEB Asset Management AG for up to 21.5 million euros (S$31.6 million) in cash
03/20/2015
Deutsche AWM Receives First German Yuan Investor Licence
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH became the first German money manager to obtain a license to invest in China’s onshore financial market
03/20/2015
Edinburgh-based investment house launches new Income Fund
The Edinburgh-based investment house, have launched an income fund to sit within their multi-asset fund range
03/20/2015
Fidelity Joins European Nonprofit in Bid to Lower Trading Costs
Fidelity Worldwide Investment and JPMorgan Asset Management are among fund firms joining a new, not-for-profit consortium that aims to lower trading costs.
03/19/2015
Heather Hedge Fund Executives Given Loans Before Collapse
Loans came from Gibraltar-based company controlled by Heather founder Gregory King
03/19/2015
SEB divests its German real estate investment management business
Following the transaction, the company will be combined with Cordea Savills, Savills` investment management business.
03/19/2015
CF Miton UK Value Opportunities Fund breaks through £200m AUM mark
The fund has doubled its assets under management since September 2014, when the fund reached £100m AUM.
03/19/2015
European property dealers target Gulf investors
Property dealers in Europe are targeting Gulf investors who stand to cash in as a result of the weak euro against the strong US dollar
03/19/2015
EM boutique launches Asian small-cap equity fund
Emerging markets specialist LGM Investments has launched a new approach focused on the small-cap Asian equity market, Citywire Global can reveal
03/19/2015
Hedge Funds’ Short Memory to Repeat Krone Battle, Callesen Says
The central bank has cut its main deposit rate four times
03/19/2015
Goldman-backed hedge fund buys stake in Russian gold miner
The event-driven hedge fund focused on high yield and distressed debt is backed by a Goldman Sachs’ private equity fund.
03/19/2015
Real Estate Unit of Italy’s Generali Planning Move into Asia
Push is part of group-wide expansion away from insurer’s European roots
03/18/2015
HKEx, LME and Borsa İstanbul agree partnership
Following this transaction, the LME has disposed of its entire remaining stake in its former clearing provider, LCH.Clearnet.
03/18/2015
Custom House re-launching Global Fund Services
TMF Group and Custom House Global Fund Services are going to separate, creating an independent, stand-alone fund services operation
03/18/2015
UK's Schroder wants to double in France, Belgium to €1bn
It manages just €400m AUM there out of €15bn in total, 70% of which in its home market.
03/18/2015
BlackRock launches passive real estate fund
BlackRock has said a new property-focused exchange traded fund it is launching will aim to “accurately reflect” the returns possible from real estate.
03/17/2015
Managers question UK liquidity squeeze after Schroders move
Fund managers have insisted lower levels of liquidity in the small- and mid-cap UK equity market are manageable
03/16/2015
Sale of German property bank DuesselHyp may fail: paper
The sale of German commercial property lender Duesseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG may fail due to its exposure to Austrian lender Hypo Alpe Adria's "bad bank" Heta, German daily Welt am Sonntag reported.