04/07/2013
Barings to launch Frontier Markets Fund
Barings has announced its plan to launch the Baring Frontier Markets Fund in the coming weeks, subject to regulatory approval.
Alternative Investments
04/07/2013
Platforms kick off scramble for clean fund discounts
Demanding discounted clean share classes from fund managers
04/04/2013
Investors pull £245m from Buxton fund
Investors have withdrawn nearly 7% of Schroders' flagship UK Alpha Plus fund since manager Richard Buxton announced last month he was leaving to join a rival firm.
04/04/2013
Unicorn funds move to Cofunds
Unicorn is an independently owned investment management company founded in July 2000, focusing on small and mid-cap equities.
04/04/2013
ABN Amro Ceases Precious-Metals Delivery Service for Dutch Clients
ABN Amro had previously offered its Dutch clients the option to receive their physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium holdings
04/03/2013
German boutique launches European corporate bond fund
The fund will be run from Munich by former UniCredit and Deutsche Bank credit risk experts.
04/03/2013
Global ETP flows pass $70bn in record Q1
The group reports this year so far equities have accounted for 93 per cent of flows, with developed markets making up $60.5bn of flows.
04/02/2013
CBI: Asset managers remain ‘remarkably confident’
Companies’ business volumes showed their strongest rise since December 2010 during the three months to March.
04/02/2013
£1m refit for new Scoban head office in Edinburgh
Scoban has signed a ten-year lease on the property, which was once the home of Professor James Syme, a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh.
04/02/2013
Banca Generali net inflows 210 mln euros in March
Banca Generali is 64.7 percent owned by Italy's biggest insurer Assicurazioni Generali.
04/02/2013
Banca Generali net inflows 210 mln euros in March
Banca Generali is 64.7 percent owned by Italy's biggest insurer Assicurazioni Generali.
04/02/2013
Quilter Appoints Cofunds as Custodian
He added that one of the key reasons for the appointment was Cofunds’ “unrivalled” fund coverage across the UK market.
04/01/2013
Chinese investors have their sights set on Greek property
Property, mainly residential apartments, accounts for about 80 percent of household wealth in Greece.
04/01/2013
Nomura reaches US$1bn AUM in Japan UCITS fund
The election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and nomination of new Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda have drawn investor focus back to Japan.
04/01/2013
Leeds United’s Dubai-Based Owner Says Studying Investor Offers
GFH Capital has received several offers from a number of investors
04/01/2013
City Financial to acquire OPM Fund Management
OPM fund manager Tony Yousefian will join City alongside business development manager Richard Carswell
03/31/2013
Rothschild raising 300 mln euro loan fund-sources
The credit unit of the 200-year-old financial advisory group is launching the fund to invest in high-yielding European leveraged loansThe credit unit of the 200-year-old financial advisory group is launching the fund to invest in high-yielding European le
03/28/2013
Computer hedge fund firm Henri Capital shuts down
Henri's closure represents the failure of a portfolio spun off from one of the world's biggest and most successful fund firms.
03/27/2013
ICAP warns on profit as trading recovery falters
Increased levels of volatility, including heavy electronic trading of the Japanese yen, had helped activity in January and February, but trading had tailed off this month.
03/27/2013
Ingenious launches US business to build on Fatca opportunity
Chief executive Guy Bowles said: ‘We have put all the systems in place with BNY Mellon and Pershing, Jersey, to custody clients.’