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Volatility helps active funds make £5.2bn comeback

“On top of this, active funds have performed well during this period and so have proved their worth.”

Swiss real estate ‘no longer in the bubble risk zone’, says UBS

This happened despite owner-occupied home prices gaining almost 5% compared to the previous year, adjusted for inflation.

Barclays forms partnership with Smart Pension

Firms that sign up through Barclays will be able to offer their employees access to the bank’s proprietary Global Market Funds, which are managed by the same team of investment experts that look after Wealth clients.

New private equity manager chooses Guernsey as base for its first fund

Guernsey's respected and flexible regulatory regime together with expert advisers and quality service providers means emerging managers looking to establish their first fund know they are in good and experienced hands.

What is the Comprehensive Agreement Act on Investment?

While Chinese investments into Europe have been steady in the past few years

£5.2BN Inflows to Active Funds in December, in Second Highest Inflows on Record

The fund market accumulated strong sales over 2020 and ends a tumultuous year with record funds under management.

VERSO Capital Announces Merger With ALDINI Capital

Partnership Creates Opportunities for Global Venture Capital Growth

The changing face of markets

Listings also included three of the largest 10 European high yield transactions in the third quarter of the year, with the largest being the Liberty Global and Telefónica financing vehicle for the merger of Virgin Media and O2.

Cairn Capital to acquire Bybrook Capital

Cairn Capital Group (Cairn Capital), supported by Mediobanca as its majority shareholder, has agreed terms for a strategic partnership in which Cairn Capital will acquire and merge with Bybrook Capital (Bybrook), a specialist distressed credit manager bas

Will advisers back equities in 2021?

Property funds also saw sustained outflows following the reopening of some that had originally been suspended.

EBRD and EU strengthen support to small businesses in Georgia

The EBRD is delivering its support with Team Europe to increase the resilience and agility of the private sector.

Modest Proposal for the British Private Equity Funds Industry

European AIFs are at least four times more expensive to operate than comparative US funds and this cost differential is only expected to increase with additional social reporting costs.

Frenkel Topping secures double acquisition for £9m

The acquisitions fit exactly into our strategy of acquiring high-quality businesses in the personal injury and clinical negligence market and builds on the successful acquisition and integration of Forths last year .

Abacus Money Management acquires local adviser

Merger and acquisitions broker Gunner & Co said this was the firm's second deal in the south west in the last 12 months, but added the area remained a key target for consolidator acquisitions.

Hargreaves Lansdown adds 84,000 customers

Over the course of the pandemic, many have found the time and seen the need to prioritise household savings which has enabled and led them to invest for the first time.

The likelihood of a bubble forming in financial markets

Today’s financial markets are grounded on easy equity, and many market observers are worried about the impact of a reversal of central bank policies when the pandemic ultimately ends.

Hargreaves new business jumps 40% on Covid day-trading boom

Equity trading volumes were up 123 per cent on the prior year due to these factors, the firm’s results suggest.

Singapore property investor to raise $600m for EU office fund

Mapletree seeds with UK, Polish and German assets targeting 12% return

Royal London launches 4 Investment Pathways

The pathways are a regulatory requirement introduced as part of the FCA’s Retirement Outcomes Review.

Custodian REIT offloads £1.6m of retail properties

“These assets were not aligned with the strategy of the company as we did not anticipate future rental growth”

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