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Aberdeen howls as Widows makes it top 'Dog'

Aberdeen Asset Management has the highest number of badly performing funds says fund supermarket Tilney Bestinvest in its 'Spot the Dog' study.

Succession acquires 12th adviser firm for £3m

Consolidator Succession has completed its twelfth acquisition and the first of this year

Brewin Dolphin sign up to sponsor NECC President’s Club

Wealth management firm Brewin Dolphin has signed up to support the North East Chamber of Commerce President’s Club for a second consecutive year

Investors urge Standard Chartered to replace boss

Two of the bank's investors have told its chairman to find a replacement for Peter Sands

Jeremy Paxman to pose the questions at Jersey funds event in London

Former BBC Newsnight anchor, Jeremy Paxman, will be asking the questions about the prospects for the international funds industry when he is the moderator at this year’s Jersey Finance funds conference in London on March 19.

St. James’s Place Started Talks to Explore Middle East Base

The companyreported 1.38 billion pounds ($2.1 billion) of net inflows in the fourth quarter, sending assets under management to a record 52 billion pounds, according to a statement.

Assets reach £9.9bn at Close Brothers AM

The group highlighted its banking division as a strong performer, but said trading at Winterflood continued to be impacted by difficult market conditions.

Saffery Champness named Guernsey’s Trust Company of the Year

The awards were judged by an international panel of highly respected practitioners from all sectors

London wealth manager buys IFA to boost assets by £150m

The combined business will manage £420m of assets and employ 21 staff across two offices.

Pershing boosts clarity for investors

Pershing Ltd has rolled out its new portfolio-reporting template to help its wealth manager and adviser clients offer clear, individually branded documentation to end investors.

Intesa considers float of private banking arm

Intesa Sanpaolo is considering a flotation of its private banking

Baer CEO Collardi Says Not Among Bidders for RBS’s Coutts Unit

Asked whether the bank is considering a bid for Coutts International, he said, “we are looking from the outside for the time being.”

Does fund administration need a new name? by Ian Kelly Chief Executive Officer Augentius

Reliability, expertise, and reputation have always been important factors in how funds select administrators, but the benefit provided was essentially a ‘negative’ one: its primary purpose was to remove a problem from the fund manager’s

The growing issue of social media for wealth managers

Undoubtedly firms have to preserve their image and the episode once again underlined the fact that most companies do not yet have a formal procedure in place for dealing with social media.

The 2015 General Election is making business uneasy, says wealth management firm Vestra Wealth

Wealth manager David Scott says the oil-price crash caught people on the hop but now investors are concerned about the approaching election

AFH Wealth reaches £1bn milestone

Since it listed on the Alternative Investment Market in June 2014, in excess of £100m FUM were added through the acquisitions of Knight O’Byrne

Amundi Says Investors Should De-Carbonize to Boost Return

Amundi considers itself Europe’s biggest asset manager, with about 850 billion euros ($984 billion) in investments.

Swiss Lenders Pitch 'Superior' Banking Services

Swiss bankers are now pitching 'superior banking' services to their prospective clients

Aberdeen Asset could make small acquisitions

Aberdeen Asset Management is not looking for any major acquisitions following its purchase of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership

European ETF growth levels to be sustained in 2015, says Deutsche AWM

The European ETF market is expected to expand 15-20% in 2015 according to Simon Klein of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.

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