09/09/2014
BNP Paribas Securities Services says it has handled the securities mechanisms of the eDreams ODIGEO initial public offering (IPO) on the Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia stock markets back in April this year.
09/09/2014
The firm is also a first-mover in efforts to lower the barriers of entry to the asset class. In May, it launched a feeder fund to give wealthy individuals access to its investments without the need to write institutional-size checks.
09/09/2014
The IMA said most UK asset management activity was concentrated on London, but 11 percent, or nearly 560 billion pounds in total assets, were managed in Scotland.
09/09/2014
The sale of Kensington, which follows that of Investec's struggling Australian professional finance and leasing arm in April, does not include the Irish operations
09/09/2014
This will enable CBPE to enhance the quality and efficiency of its communications with its investors.
09/08/2014
Hungary’s central bank is ready to use part of the country’s foreign-currency reserves to help the government rid households of their costly foreign-currency mortgages
09/08/2014
Fund selectors’ responses suggest that emotion plays a bigger role in their work than they might admit
09/08/2014
The bank’s ECT Clients business is one of the most active lenders to companies in these sectors globally.
09/08/2014
The fund managed to raise a significant amount of money in 2013, as investors bought into Mr Mabbutt’s process and track record at Thames River, LGT Asset Management and Baring Asset Management.
09/08/2014
Since the financial crisis in 2008, the market for liquid alternative investments such as UCITS, or Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, has grown as investors seek hedge fund-like returns in more regulated funds.
09/08/2014
The desire to generate income will become a primary focus of new products.
09/08/2014
Hermes Fund Managers’ Saker Nusseibeh believes it is the responsibility of schemes to drive long termism, not their asset managers
09/07/2014
Financial spread betting firm eyes £1bn float
Former Tory co-treasurer says the firm could be listed in “months” if the market is right
09/05/2014
Insurance group Legal & General has revealed plans to shut down its Ipswich office in a move that is expected to result in approximately 140 job losses.
09/05/2014
Skandia now says it has listened to further feedback and has been told by advisers that there is sufficient demand for the Invesco funds to remain open.
09/04/2014
European Capital Debt Management Limited announced today that it has closed its new £100 million fund, European Capital UK SME Debt LP, a fund to provide debt finance in small and medium sized enterprises in the UK
09/04/2014
The group’s 10th fund became oversubscribed largely because ECI’s existing backers, which committed about 80 per cent of the capital, increased their investments by a third, on average.
09/04/2014
BV Investment Partners, which this week closed its eighth buyout fund with $487 million, said this time around it made a concerted effort to build out a new base of limited partners in Europe.
09/04/2014
The ECB is preparing to buy ABS as it strives to revive lending to small-and medium-sized businesses that employ about 70 percent of the European Union’s private-sector workers.
09/04/2014
Billionaire investor taps Deutsche and UBS for hedge fund portfolio IPO-sources
Sources say they expect the closed-end fund to be listed on the London Stock Exchange before the end of the year.