10/30/2014
Archipel Asset Management AB, a Swedish hedge-fund firm that makes trades based on computer algorithms, is closing after its biggest backer pulled out, citing a lackluster performance.
10/30/2014
It supersedes a body of the same name, of which only Hargreaves Lansdown, Fidelity FundsNetwork, Cofunds, Standard Life and Old Mutual Wealth were members.
10/30/2014
Under the agreement, EDF will contribute investment opportunities while Amundi will handle project investment. The principle aim is to recruit retail and institutional investors.
10/30/2014
Haitong plans to buy London-based brokerage
Will pay US$20 million for the London-based brokerage Japaninvest
10/30/2014
Indexx Markets will be working with the Sarasin Systematic team to deliver a range of indices covering multiple geographies, beginning with a US Efficient Strategy Index based on the constituents of the S&P500. These strategies will be available to Eu
10/30/2014
BlackRock is set to take on the mandate for the £485m British Assets investment trust from F&C Investments as the trust seeks to restructure itself as a multi-asset income product.
10/30/2014
Undoubtedly it is Luxembourg’s leading insurance event and is attended by leading risk managers
10/30/2014
Legal & General is slashing the cost of 16 trackers, taking it neck and neck with Fidelity Worldwide Investment for some funds.
10/30/2014
Platforms, popular with RIAs, post tremendous growth for firms, fund managers
10/29/2014
Hamburg-based developer Momeni has sold an iconic office tower in Düsseldorf to Black Horse Investments
10/29/2014
Milan-based United Ventures has raised $80 million for its oversubscribed debut fund. The LPs for United Ventures One include institutions, banks and fund of funds. The fund seeks to invest in European tech startups.
10/29/2014
Carne has received authorisation as a fund services business from the Jersey regulator, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).
10/29/2014
One the one hand, there is the collateralised reinsurance and insurance linked securities (ILS) markets, which are growing very rapidly because of the involvement of non-insurance capital.
10/29/2014
Infracapital Partners has closed its second fund on 1 billion pounds to invest in core infrastructure assets across Europe. Co-investment pledges takes total capital for investment to more than 1.3 billion pounds. Atlantic-Pacific Capital worked as placem
10/28/2014
Our winners then had to contend with a panel of five leading experts
10/28/2014
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced plans to finance a biomass conversion project that will help a historic Scottish whisky distillery to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
10/28/2014
He will replace previous manager Jonathan Parker
10/28/2014
The assets will be managed by Standard Life Investments’ highly successful Global Equities team, with seed capital from one of Denmark’s most established institutional investors.
10/28/2014
Advent Life Sciences has closed its Advent Life Sciences Fund II on 145.5 million pounds ($235 million) to seed and build life sciences companies in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Fund II, which will back entrepreneurs and early stage and mid-stage companies
10/27/2014
Political backing will help, Weston says. Chancellor Osborne hailed the platform’s planned launch in his autumn statement of 2011 with the sound bite “British pension funds for British infrastructure”.