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Institutional investors want to buy (much) more real estate – these are the consequences.

This year's ninth survey included 179 companies that together manage directly held Swiss real estate assets of approximately CHF 366 billion.

Moore Kingston Smith expands into the South

This move marks our tenth strategic investment since receiving PE backing and represents a significant expansion into the South of England.

Perella Weinberg to buy UK advisory boutique Gleacher Shacklock

Gleacher Shacklock serves corporates, financial sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and institutions across multiple sectors.

Hines Strengthens European Leadership to Capture Regional Opportunity

Hines has been deliberately and consistently growing its European business, combining hyper-local execution and operating capabilities with investment management and a client-centric fund platform.

Standard Life buys Aegon UK for £2bn

Deal will create UK’s second largest workplace pensions platform by assets and customers

Nedgroup’s Burdett: The rules of investing haven’t changed, but everything else has altered

Swiss Life Group Annual Report

Swiss Life increased its fee income by 5% in local currency to CHF 2.6 billion.

Cold store specialist Iceline Yorkshire Ltd joins Nordic Climate Group’s growing UK organisation

The business serves customers across the food retail, logistics and food production sectors and has built a reputation for practical solutions and dependable delivery in demanding refrigeration environments.

MSCI acquires PM Insights to expand private markets data

PM Insights’ dataset supports portfolio management, performance measurement and index creation, and is expected to improve pricing transparency in private equity.

Franklin Templeton launches index fund range for UK investors

Designed as cost-efficient core portfolio building blocks, the strategies aim to remain close to their benchmark indices while delivering incremental outperformance.

NLB sets out higher bid for Addiko after Raiffeisen offer

NLB plans to combine Addiko’s banking subsidiaries with its own businesses in the five markets where both groups operate.

UK’s Largest Pension Fund Acquires Majority Stake in Private Credit Firm Venn Partners

The Universities Superannuation Scheme aims to help ease the domestic housing crisis by supporting the development of affordable housing.

Zurich Insurance offers ‘best of both worlds’ with human-led digital loss support service

Following the UK launch, Zurich Insurance intends to expand this service to other markets as part of a global roll out strategy.

One Four Nine Group buys financial planning firm

One Four Nine said the values of the York-based independent financial planning business align with its founding principles of delivering personalised, high-quality lifetime financial planning.

Why CCI will push more funds into higher risk categories

The risk score will be familiar to asset managers and investors as the key summary risk measure for financial products, such as the SRRI for UCITS KIIDs and the SRI for PRIIPs KIDs.

How Asset Managers Benefit From Fund Servicing Becoming a Connected Ecosystem

These managers also expect their service providers to match that level of focus on both innovation and simplification.

Royal London broadens income protection reach

Following a review of its proposition, Royal London has improved terms for more than 700 occupations.

Ninety One wins £1.1 billion Countrywide Assured mandate

The mandate puts Ninety One's multi-asset team in the spotlight as Chesnara absorbs new deals

UK state-backed fund Nest invests £450mn in US private credit

Workplace pension scheme targets 30% allocation to private markets by 2030 despite growing strains on asset class

Wellington Management expands liquid alternatives range with new Absolute Return Global Equity UCITS fund

Daily dealing UCITS fund aims to deliver cash plus returns with low sensitivity to equity and bond markets while mitigating factor and market exposures.

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