03/21/2019
Assets to leave London ahead of Brexit top £1tn
Among those firms to have declared their asset transfers, the figure has risen to £1 trillion, up from £800 billion three months ago.
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03/21/2019
Allianz turns picky as it shops for asset managers
Germany’s biggest insurer eyes bid for DWS, the former Deutsche Bank business
03/21/2019
LV= proposes to change company status to make nimbler decisions
We will continue to exercise rigorous cost control in the future
03/21/2019
Revealed: where experts who manage billions of your money invest their Isas
The Jupiter and Evenlode funds are domestically-orientated
03/21/2019
Aberdeen Standard Investments to advise on five Virgin Money funds
Martin Gilbert, chairman of ASI, said: “The appointment of ASI as investment adviser for these five funds is a significant step in developing our joint venture with Virgin Money.
03/21/2019
Benson Elliot raises €800m for fifith value-add European property fund
BEREP V received commitments from around 40 institutional investors, including university endowments, insurance companies, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and family offices.
03/21/2019
Asset management flows drive record profits at Royal London
Mr Loney urged the government to move forward on auto enrollment, in terms of timescales and funding.
03/21/2019
BNP Paribas AM unveils roadmap to deliver Paris-aligned investment portfolio by 2025
Built around the three key sustainability themes of the energy transition, the environment, and equality, the strategy sets out how BNPP AM plans to engage with companies in its portfolio, including fossil fuel firms, on climate issues and governance.
03/21/2019
Kempen announces two UK fiduciary mandate wins
Many pension schemes are navigating a volatile global financial world
03/20/2019
The benefits of ethical Isas
Funds focusing on environmental, social and corporate-governance issues are on the rise
03/20/2019
Banco Sabadell targets digital economy with new fund
Business models of the new digital economy will benefit from a sustainable and greater growth trend," according to Sabadell.
03/20/2019
Global investors eye bigger slice of Chinese bond market
International bond investors have begun to notice the country’s recent moves to open up its markets
03/20/2019
Malaysia's Sovereign Wealth Fund Mulls Closing London Office
Both the U.S. and China remain very important to Khazanah because “we have a very big interest in technology and so those offices remain relevant, ” he said.
03/20/2019
Octopus Property loan book reaches GBP1 billion
Following a record start to the year which has seen it commit more than GBP150 million of finance, Octopus Property is on track to lend a record GBP850 million in 2018/19
03/20/2019
Jersey advised to save an extra £600m in case Brexit disrupts financial sector
We can't tell when a crisis might be but what we can say is the current fund is not big enough in case a crisis arises
03/20/2019
UniCredit and Axiom AI launch first global CoCo bond ETF
The index is the first joint venture between the Solactive and UniCredit and has been designed to offer the most scalable and liquid exposure to the CoCo bond universe.
03/19/2019
La Française closes Veritas Group acquisition
The group’s product line has been enhanced with 11 additional securities funds.
03/19/2019
Asset management firm Miton boosts fund manager pay by 71 per cent
Profit before tax was £8.9m, an increase of 43 per cent on the previous year driven by boosted assets under management, which were up 14 per cent from £3.8bn at the beginning of 2018 to £4.37bn at the end of December.
03/19/2019
Hargreaves says adviser consolidation is bad for investment
This threatened to create a drag on performance as innovation and the willingness to take risk are increasingly lacking, he said.
03/19/2019
Greenwich: Asset owners relying more on social media for researching money managers
The survey also revealed that 61% of investors engaged in group discussions over the course of the year, almost double from 32% in 2015.