10/28/2014
Investment Adviser 100 Club Awards - October 2014
Our winners then had to contend with a panel of five leading experts
Alternative Investments
10/28/2014
GIB invests in Royal Brackla whisky distillery sustainability upgrade
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
Brazier to take over Investec UK Alpha fund in November
He will replace previous manager Jonathan Parker
10/28/2014
Standard Life Investments secures Global Equity Mandate in Denmark
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 closes Fund II on 145.5 mln pounds
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
Pensions infrastructure chief drives new mutual model
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”.
10/27/2014
Lloyd George reopens frontier markets fund after investor redemptions
However, following the sharp uptick in volatility across equity markets, and falls for emerging market equities in particular, the fund’s AUM has shrunk to $633m, prompting the group to reopen the strategy.
10/27/2014
Rehlaender to debut asset management firm in 2015
Property investment expert Jim Rehlaender is set to debut his new asset management house in the UK retail market in the first half of 2015.
10/27/2014
Qatari's look set to get hands on HSBC's headquarters in London's Canary Wharf
They own Harrods, the Shard and part of Barclays, Sainsbury’s and the London Stock Exchange.
10/27/2014
China GF Intl says to set up offices in New York, London
Asset manager GF International Investment Management said on Monday that it plans to set up offices in New York and London next year
10/27/2014
Haversham Plans To Float On AIM
Haversham said that it plans to float the Company on AIM. Haversham is a group formed by Avril Palmer-Baunack and Marwyn, the specialist investment management company, with the support of institutional investors, including Invesco, Artemis, Aviva and Schr
10/27/2014
Former Cru Investment Management chairman returns with new venture
The firm is called Swayagain and was set up to provide marketing and help raise capital for various ventures
10/24/2014
Amundi buys Austrian BAWAG PSK's asset management arm
Deutsche Bank advised BAWAG PSK and BPV Huegel served as the legal adviser on the deal.
10/23/2014
Polish property market popular with invetors in Asia, Middle East
Investors were attracted by positive prospects of the Polish housing market
10/23/2014
Standard Life, ICBC to broaden cooperation in China, UK, Hong Kong
The memorandum of understanding would see them "work together to identify opportunities for the benefit of both businesses in China, Hong Kong and the UK", they said in a statement.
10/23/2014
London Stock Exchange Group Extends Strategic Relationship With Morocco
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Maroclear, the Moroccan Central Securities Depositary (CSD) today announced they have signed a cooperation agreement to expand the range of services LSEG provides to market participants in Morocco.
10/23/2014
HKEx to Introduce its First Asia Commodities Contracts for Trading on 1 December
The three mini metals contracts will trade in Renminbi (RMB). Other contract details, including the hours of the after-hours trading session, are shown in the tables below.
10/23/2014
HKEx to Introduce its First Asia Commodities Contracts for Trading on 1 December
The three mini metals contracts will trade in Renminbi (RMB). Other contract details, including the hours of the after-hours trading session, are shown in the tables below.
10/23/2014
Old Mutual Property fund to merge into Henderson UK Property
Old Mutual Global Investors is looking to merge the £437m OMGI Property fund into the £2.3bn Henderson UK Property fund.
10/23/2014
Standard Life launches EM equity fund to UK investors
The launch of the OEIC is driven by demand from UK investors who have requested access to the GEM equity unconstrained strategy which has delivered superior returns since inception, outperforming the MSCI Emerging Market Index over six months and one year