05/11/2015
Taiwan’s Fubon Life eyes Madame Tussauds deal
Taiwan’s Fubon Life is reportedly close to acquiring London tourist attraction Madame Tussauds for £330 million
Alternative Investments
05/11/2015
EFGAM launches high conviction global equity fund
EFG Asset Management has launched a New Capital Global Equity Conviction fund for head of equity research Robin Milway.
05/08/2015
Trends in pension funds sector could benefit Guernsey
Guernsey's fund industry has the potential to benefit substantially from trends within the global pension funds sector
05/08/2015
UK group to step up international push with Asian Income fund launch
Liontrust Asset Management is planning to launch an offshore version of its Asian Income fund in a continued bid to appeal to European investors
05/08/2015
Man Group assets under management up 7 per cent to USD78bn
Man Group’s latest trading statement for the quarter ended 31 March 2015 reveals that funds under management (FUM) are up 7 per cent to USD78.1 billion as at 31 March 2015
05/08/2015
Three mobile owner Hutchinson Whampoa unveils investors backing its takeover of O2
The Chinese owner of Three has announced the names of the investors that will acquire a 33 per cent stake in its UK mobile phone business once its takeover of O2 is completed.
05/08/2015
Aztec Group repeat fund administration award success
Aztec Group has once again been named fund administrator of the year at the 2015 European Private Equity Awards in London.
05/08/2015
Sovereign wealth funds invest in UK mobile phone operator
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority , Singapore’s GIC, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec are investing in a UK mobile phone operator
05/07/2015
Nordic asset manager readies high-conviction global equity fund
Nordic asset manager has launched the official details regarding returning fund manager Filip Weintraub’s new global equity fund
05/07/2015
Cornèr Bank to Acquire Diners Club Italia and Dinit
Diners Club International Ltd., a subsidiary of Discover Financial Services, and Cornèr Bank LTD have reached an agreement for Cornèr Bank to acquire Diners Club Italia S.r.l. and Dinit d.o.o. from Discover Financial Services.
05/07/2015
Scottish Widows sells Clerical Medical International to RL360
Isle of Man-based CMI was formed in 1987 and has been running as a closed book of business since March 2012.
05/07/2015
Aquila Capital launches ‘world’s first’ European hydropower fund
Alternative asset manager Aquila Capital has launched what it claims is the world’s first dedicated European hydropower fund for institutional investors
05/07/2015
Odey hedge fund drops 19% in a month
Odey Asset Management founder Crispin Odey’s flagship hedge fund slumped 19.3 per cent last month
05/07/2015
BlueCrest Macro Fund Posts Its Biggest Gain in Five Years
The slump hurt money managers who had been betting European debt would rise further because of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing program.
05/07/2015
Pain is not over for commodities, warns Kames Capital
Investors advised to ‘stand back’ from commodity sector
05/07/2015
Would you give chickpeas an investing chance? Hummus Bros puts itself in the crowfunding Dragon's Den
Hummus Bros has become the latest firm to dip into the ever-growing crowdfunding markets.
05/07/2015
Activist investor Knight Vinke pushes for change at UBS
The hedge fund has been urging the Swiss bank to split its wealth management business from its investment bank because it believes the wealth management business would thrive away from its riskier investment bank.
05/07/2015
Rothschild Rescue Plan Upset by Banker Who Got Him Into Coal
Nathaniel Rothschild’s struggle to salvage what he can from a painful foray into Indonesian coal is being confounded by the banker who introduced him to the business.
05/07/2015
Aviva turnaround on track and ahead of schedule, says chief executive
The chief executive of Aviva said the insurer’s turnaround plan was “on track and ahead of schedule” as it recorded a 14pc rise in the value of new business for the first three months of the year.
05/06/2015
Ivanhoé Cambridge buys UBS London office asset
The real estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec said it bought 21 Lombard Street, an office property in the City district of the UK capital, from an undisclosed seller.