08/28/2014
James Hay parent to sell Irish advisory businesses for £10.8m
The sale of its Irish operations will allow IFG to invest in SIPP, SSAS and wrap provider James Hay and hourly-charging IFA Saunderson House
08/28/2014
Western sanctions have negatively affected Russia’s financial system.
08/28/2014
Aviva Investors has stepped up its interest in the domestic solar rooftop sector, announcing yesterday that it has acquired a second portfolio of residential solar projects from Zouk Capital.
08/28/2014
BlackRock Solutions was appointed by the Greek central bank this year to investigate the balance sheets of its four big banks and worked with the Bank of Ireland during the euro zone debt crisis.
08/27/2014
The disposal of Duesseldorfer Hypothekenbank follows the sale of Lone Star’s Corealcredit to Aareal Bank last year and leaves the investor with IKB, the corporate bank it has tried unsuccessfully to sell so far.
08/27/2014
Barnett Waddingham has acquired Wirral-based Sipp and SSAS provider Harsant Pensions for an undisclosed sum.
08/27/2014
Tracker funds saw net retail sales of £532m in July, the highest level since Investment Management Association (IMA) records began twenty two years ago.
08/26/2014
The latest edition of The Cerulli Edge – Europe Edition, looks at the reasons behind this underperformance, and suggests why active management will play a greater role than it did just a few years ago.
08/26/2014
The fund names will be prefixed with the initials CF
08/26/2014
Skandia is owned by Old Mutual Global Investors.
08/26/2014
European fund managers reclaimed territory from their US rivals in the first half of the year, taking three of the top five spots in the league table for net sales in Europe, according to Lipper data.
08/25/2014
After many years of outperforming large company stocks, shares in smaller businesses have been struggling this year, although the performance of investment trusts focused on the 'small cap' market hasn't been that bad.
08/25/2014
Trade counter assets are typically high volume showrooms or light retail businesses that require an element of retail space and use the balance of space for warehousing inventory and/or office purposes.
08/22/2014
Stock pickers may not be popular in the U.S., but hedge fund managers are hoping to make a splash overseas as the pour into Europe, searching for opportunities amid a market where shaky economics have primed companies to receive their constructive critici
08/22/2014
Flexi-access drawdown has come under the spotlight earlier this month when FTAdviser revealed that there would be an avoidance ‘loophole’
08/22/2014
As well as its New York headquarters, the firm has an office in Sydney, according to its website, but a UK office would be its first in Europe.
08/22/2014
Fidelity Worldwide Investment is proposing to merge the £209m Fidelity International fund into the £9m Fidelity Open World fund.
08/22/2014
FE Trustnet highlights three managers that have hit the ground running, but are yet to be tested with their current mandate during a crash.
08/21/2014
Threadneedle is set to close its £2.6m Worldwide Select Multi-Manager fund which it acquired as part of the deal which saw it take on LV= Asset Management’s funds.
08/21/2014
The new South Bank Tower is one of the many new luxury developments in the city that has buyers from the region in its sights.