03/30/2020
IG4 Capital partners with ZEDRA Fund Services
IG4 has also raised additional co-investment commitments for the IG4 Capital Infrastructure Investments
Alternative Investments
03/29/2020
Suddenly bosses are buying shares in their own firms, should you too? Why it can pay to watch the directors dealing
Schroders talks of a 'flicker of light' at the end of what is still set to be a 'very long tunnel'.
03/26/2020
French money manager Exane suspends sub-fund on coronavirus outbreak
Paris-based Exane Asset Management, founded in 2001, manages a number of equities funds and managed assets worth 3.4 billion euros as of June 2019, according to its website.
03/25/2020
Investors pull nearly £1bn from Invesco
Schroders has also struggled to keep assets in its UK open-ended funds, losing £4.3bn of assets over the past year.
03/25/2020
Private Equity Boss Slams Corona Shutdown
Dibelius has orchestrated the buyouts of German perfume chain Douglas as well as that of Swiss luxury watchmaker Breitling since joining London-based CVC in 2015.
03/25/2020
Aviva pays out £21m on historic DB claims
Friends Provident was a life company that became part of Friends Life, which was then bought by Aviva in 2015.
03/24/2020
Germany to spend extra €122.5bn to counter coronavirus slump
Berlin rips up fiscal rules that have guided Europe’s largest economy for a decade
03/24/2020
London number one for green finance quality
Green finance is any financial instrument or investment that creates a positive outcome for the climate, such as bonds in renewable energy companies.
03/23/2020
How are hedge funds, multi asset and ARP handling the coronavirus crisis? by Dr. Toby Goodworth
A number of discretionary Global Macro managers are making significant gains from their rates books in March.
03/23/2020
Top UK fund managers lose a quarter of their value due to virus
Sharp fall in the collective value of Britain’s biggest fund managers as markets suffer from the escalating Covid-19 outbreak
03/22/2020
After sell-off, US$4b investor reviews hedge fund
"Many investors will have to critically evaluate the role of alternative strategies in their portfolio, ” Vatanen said.
03/22/2020
Hedge fund tycoon makes £115million from this month’s coronavirus stock market crash
‘The stock market has to rally because a recession has now been priced in,’ he said. ‘I’m buying some shares now. It’s a good time to be stock-picking.’
03/20/2020
RPI Or CPI- Beyond Pension Increases
Trustees and employers will need to understand both what their Rules require them to do, and what their Rules allow them to do.
03/20/2020
SocGen's equity derivatives traders might have dodged a bullet
Smaller players can, to a certain extent, hedge their exposure to volatility from structured products by trading in the options market.
03/20/2020
Octopus halts property-backed P2P transactions
"While we clearly can’t predict the future, the current loans have been performing as expected."
03/20/2020
Irish Life and Zurich restrict investors from cashing in property funds
Companies struggling with outflows as uncertainty over Covid-19 sparks withdrawals
03/20/2020
Private equity and the new reality of coronavirus
Sponsors and their portfolio companies need to adjust quickly to the COVID-19 outbreak.
03/20/2020
Lack of demand closes two 7IM fund
Data on the European Equity Value fund was unavailable but FE estimates show the fund lost fewer assets than its UK counterpart.
03/19/2020
Aviva third provider to gate property fund
Aviva’s property portfolio is the third to shut its doors to dealing as a result of the chaos created by the spreading pandemic
03/19/2020
Commerz Real reorganises and strengthens its asset management
From now on Commerz Real will set greater store by so-called hybrid concepts and in this framework also intends to modify selected properties such as shopping centres.