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Success For Slipit- Investment Company Of The Year Awards

The award follows hot on the heels of last month’s win for SLIPIT at the Investment Adviser 100 Club Awards.

Fund industry’s bad reputation repels women

Figures for the UK show only 7 per cent of retail investment funds are managed by women.

Lloyds to sell Isle of Man offshore investment arm

Lloyds Banking Group’s insurance arm Scottish Widows has put its offshore investment and tax planning business up for sale in the latest sign that dealmaking in the sector is heating up.

Tower developers hope to win Britons over to high-rise living

A series of residential towers is set to spring up in cities across Britain as property developers and investors seek to emulate the kind of high-rise housing which is common in the US and Asia.

Top Listing For Shropshire Financial Planners

A Shropshire financial advice firm has been recognised once again as one of the best in the business in a prestigious national league table.

Smaller alternative funds complain of European 'passport' costs

Hedge fund and property fund managers are facing unexpected charges and administrative hurdles to sell their funds across Europe, deterring some from doing so and cutting across the principle of an open market

L&G acquires three care homes for £25.2m

The Careplaces Fund is a property fund specialising in healthcare managed by Bridges Ventures in partnership with care home developer Castleoak.

Would you pay €7m to get the best jobs in finance? PWC report predicts doom for European banking jobs

You want to work in private equity. Of course you do – as an industry it’s more prestigious than investment banking. It’s also more interesting, pays better and (theoretically) involves less work.

Chris Gilchrist overhauls investment proposition with Parmenion

Fiveways Financial Planning director Chris Gilchrist has teamed up with Parmenion to overhaul his firm's investment offering

River & Mercantile raises £51m for Rodrigs' Micro Cap trust

Fund managers gets first investment trust focused on UK 'micro cap' companies off the ground.

Standard Life’s Tiller: Platform price war on hold until 2016

Platforms will hold off cutting fees further until after they have dealt with significant changes to pricing structures in the first half of 2016

World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Hunts for Tailored Benchmark Index

Norway’s $860 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, says designing benchmark indexes that give its portfolio managers greater investing freedom will help drive up returns.

AIFMD fuels strong growth in European fund domiciles, says ALFI

The introduction of the AIFMD has fuelled strong growth in European fund domiciles, with the number of alternative investment funds increasing by 10% since 2010, and assets under management increasing by 13%.

Dobbie unveils crowd-lending site for SMEs

Internet entrepreneur Bill Dobbie has launched a Scottish-based crowdlending platform aimed at offering small businesses an alternative to bank funding.

Family office of Michael Dell builds 5.5% stake in Serco

MSDC currently owns 30.6 million shares in the company, making it Serco’s sixth-largest shareholder, according to a filing made by the FTSE 250-quoted firm with the London Stock Exchange.

Standard Life Investments' Thomas Moore Wins 'One to Watch'

Thomas Moore, an Investment Director within Standard Life Investments’ UK Equities team is responsible for managing the Standard Life Investments UK Equity Income Unconstrained Fund, the Standard Life Equity Income Trust and for analysing the banks

Malta has been coveted with Europe's Most Favoured Domicile award

The European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards remains the only signature event held exclusively for the European fund of hedge fund sector and as such continues to attract the top names from the industry.

New Legislation Promotes Hedge Fund Management Activity in Jersey

In a welcome development, Jersey's Chief Minister has signed into law new legislation designed to simplify and encourage the establishment and operation of hedge fund management businesses in Jersey.

BlackRock Hedge Selector trust to be closed down

The BlackRock Hedge Selector investment trust is set to liquidate after proposals to adjust the trust’s strategy were found to be lacking “feasibility”.

Caceis supports Seven Capital Management fund distribution

BlackSnake sub-fund admitted to Euroclear France

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