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Natixis Chooses Guidewire Core and Digital Products to Strengthen Customer Service

Guidewire platform to help French insurer enhance core system processes and digital capabilities; Capgemini to manage integration

Apex acquires Warburg’s asset management and servicing business in Luxembourg

Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.

This is the year that central banks finally stop propping up markets

We’ve been talking about inflation as being one of the big potential themes for this year.

Standard Life adds £400m to books in firm takeover

Standard Life’s financial planning arm, 1825, has struck a deal to acquire a financial management firm, adding £400m to its assets under advice.

Crowdfunding platform ENVESTORS says equity investments via its investor network surpass £100mln

The average investment secured by these companies was around £475,000, with investors making an average investment of £40,000.

R&Q snaps up captive firm from Old Mutual

Regulatory approval for the acquisition has been granted, with the agreed purchase price representing a small discount to Constantia’s pro-forma net assets of £3.4 million.

France Invests N150bn In Nigeria

“Available records also state that at the end of the first quarter of 2017, the trade volume between France and Nigeria stood at N668 .75 billion (1.9 billion euros).

ETF providers hope Mifid II will spur European growth

Regulatory shake-up to provide more transparency on trading of passive investment vehicles

France gears up for big privatisation drive

Sales of state holdings to be accelerated to fund ambitious spending plans

US$19bn hedge fund platform drops funds in offshore jurisdictions

Lyxor, which is owned by French bank Societe Generale, has already doubled assets under management in UCITS hedge funds to €2.5bn over the last three years.

Standard Life’s 1825 acquires Cumberland Place

The acquisition is 1825’s sixth since it was founded in 2015, and its second in London.

Bank Leumi agrees in principle to sell Romanian unit

The final transaction, which is not expected to impact financial results significantly

BlackRock's iShares posts record yearly inflows for 2017

Predicts global ETF industry will more than double by 2022

LGIM launches European Equity Income Fund

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has announces the expansion of its equity income product offering with the launch of the L&G European Equity Income Fund, a UK domiciled Unit Trust

Edmond de Rothschild AM launches energy evolution fund

The fund invests in companies linked to the evolution of the ‘energy mix’

RBS sells Lombard assets for $203 million

RBS declined to confirm the Sky News story. Investec and Shawbrook were not available for immediate comment.

Six investment themes to look out for in 2018

Global stock markets performed remarkably well in 2017 but are unlikely to be so kind this year, say fund managers.

MPs to produce British Steel pension report

The scheme has about 130,000 members of which 43,000 are deferred, which means transferring out of their pension is an option for them.

LGIM adds fourth equity income fund with European mandate

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has expanded its equity income range with a European Equity Income fund, managed by Andrew Koch

EXIM CEO killed in Austrian ski accident

Zoltán Urbán, the CE0 of EXIM (the joint company of Hungarian Export-Import Bank Ltd. and Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Ltd.) has died in a skiing accident in Austria.

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