11/06/2014
The shine may be wearing off for high-end real estate investments
Sovereign funds, some of the largest of which are based in the Middle East, have become major players in real estate in recent years.
11/06/2014
Leading Dutch bank says to pay off bail-out loan ahead of time
Will fund the repayment from the capital surplus
11/06/2014
PRIVATE insurance brokers reveal plans to merge
The combined group will boast an extensive UK and international footprint, a formidable reputation and an extremely complementary business mix with enhanced and diverse service offerings and capabilities.”
11/06/2014
Canada Life Investments is planning to open up its £50m property strategy to retail investors next year.
11/06/2014
The Standard Life investment multimanager sold out of Schroder and Threadneedle funds when their managers jumped ship.
11/06/2014
Lord North Street was built in 1725 to provide access to what was then the newly constructed Smith’s Square.
11/06/2014
Source has registered 59 of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for distribution in Spain. The range is registered with the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores in Spain and includes strategies developed together with the likes of Goldman Sachs,
11/05/2014
The FCA also halved the proposed ‘constant’ or multiple applies to Sipps holding non-standard assets from five to 2.5.
11/05/2014
UK insurer Legal & General thinks the resignation of Bill Gross from Pimco two months ago could create "opportunities" for its growing fixed income asset management business in the US,
11/05/2014
Dentons’ Global Real Estate team advised AFI Europe Group on a new credit facility agreement with Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG for a €74.5 million refinancing of an existing loan by Deutsche Bank financing AFI’s German portfolio.
11/05/2014
For some years, experts have been forecasting a reduction in the number of platforms operating in the UK, yet the numbers continue to increase.
11/04/2014
MetLife, Inc. announced today that a consortium of its affiliates and third party investors have provided 155 million euros to Elenia Finance Oyj for the long-term financing of Elenia Oy
11/04/2014
Barings has converted its multi-asset £39.2m Baring Portfolio fund into the Baring Dynamic Capital Growth fund and relaunched it to target “members of pension schemes that fall under the new auto enrolment legislation”.
11/03/2014
As bad as things have gotten on the world’s oldest power exchange, they are about to get worse
11/03/2014
The Asian Income fund scotched the idea that you can’t find decent dividend yields outside the UK, and Emerging Income manager Sophia Whitbread is determined to show she can do the same, in places that investors have never previously regarded as rel
11/03/2014
Publicis, the world's third-largest advertising agency, has agreed to buy digital ad specialist Sapient for $3.7 billion in cash as it seeks to accelerate growth after a botched merger earlier this year.
11/03/2014
Fund group BlackRock secured first place on the top 10 managers by gross retail sale, with £2.5 billion over the third quarter.
11/03/2014
L&G UK Alpha trust manager Richard Penny has set a £500m cap for the fund as it rises up the performance tables.
11/03/2014
By those standards, 2014 has seen riotous activity, with the summer launches of a US equities fund and two global funds adding to the existing line-up of UK equity and global long/short funds.
11/03/2014
The reason for this is that the definition of alternative investment funds has been changed to include any funds not covered by the UCITS Directive.