12/14/2016
Moola partners with BlackRock to launch online investment service
Moola’s mission, like most of its contemporaries, is to make investing accessible, regardless of expertise or wealth.
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12/14/2016
Chenavari Capital To Stop Investing And Return Cash To Shareholders
The company said the precise method of returning funds to shareholders will be determined by market factors
12/13/2016
Investors press Murdoch to dig deeper in £18bn Sky takeover
Investors Royal London Asset Management and Jupiter Asset Management broke cover over the weekend to criticise the deal due to fears over the independence of Sky’s negotiating team and the price.
12/13/2016
Amundi agrees deal for Pioneer Investments
Pioneer Investments will reinforce Amundi’s product expertise
12/13/2016
Fairstone Group acquires Leeds based financial firm
Fairstone will provide a good home for both our clients and business in the future
12/12/2016
Hedge funds begin to venture beyond costly Mayfair enclave
Lavish offices in high-rent London neighbourhood are being consigned to the past
12/12/2016
Swiss-based Glencore’s Rosneft deal reopens battle for Russian commodities
Glencore gets access to millions of barrels of Russian crude, just as OPEC production cuts open the door to the first supply deficit in four years.
12/12/2016
Germans sell trophy offices
The three are together worth £1bn, the source said.
12/12/2016
London backs Deutsche Börse and LSE over domicile
Officials see no reason to force merged exchanges to take Frankfurt base
12/11/2016
City banker sets out to dig for deals alone
Bacchus will focus on mergers and acquisitions work, as well as defending listed entities from unwanted bids
12/09/2016
How Aviva, SJP and Standard Life would cope with pension tax relief reform
RBC argues pension tax relief reform is inevitable due to the Government’s greater need for tax receipts after Brexit.
12/09/2016
Marshall Wace partners profit as performance fees jump
Top managers receive £16.7m on average after strong gains in flagship funds
12/09/2016
Nikko AM unveils EM local currency bond fund
The growth gap in emerging markets is returning, on the back of sustained reform and consolidation over the past three years, and we believe the fund offers a promising entry.
12/08/2016
Catella listed on Nasdaq Stockholm
There will be no issue of new shares, and shareholders of Catella do not need to take any action in connection with the listing on Nasdaq Stockholm.
12/08/2016
London still top destination for future hedgies
The number of new fund launches overall was found to be down from the HFJ’s last report in 2014
12/08/2016
Cartesian closes its doors, handing two funds to Sanditon
Edinburgh-based Cartesian was originally established as a joint venture with Ignis Asset Management back in 2005, before becoming an independent business in 2012.
12/08/2016
Polar Capital sees H1 pretax profit fall
Long-only equity funds in general experienced large net redemptions over the period and we were not immune from such industry conditions.
12/08/2016
LME Steel Scrap wins industry award on first anniversary
Steel scrap open interest is also steadily building and stood at 49,130 tonnes at the end of November.
12/08/2016
Poland agrees to buy back its second largest bank from UniCredit for $2.6 billion
UniCredit, Italy's only systematically important bank, hired French banker Jean Pierre Mustier as chief executive in July
12/08/2016
Service Awards 2016: Company of the Year: Royal London
Both divisions occupy the top spot of their respective categories in 2016.