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Nutmeg slashes minimum investment by 50%

The service charges an annual management fee of between 0.95%-0.3% of invested assets including VAT.

Exchanges shrug off Brexit fears to trade €30bn merger contracts

Nearly 16 years after Deutsche Boerse first tried to take over LSE, the exchanges said last month they were discussing an all-share merger

Turquoise to launch ETF trading segment

The move comes amid MiFID II regulation, which will see ETFs considered as securities (instead of funds) and therefore be required to demonstrate best execution.

French Bonds Top Draghi's Corporate Shopping List, ABN Amro Says

More than 250 billion euros of French debt will be available under ABN Amro’s best estimate of which bonds the ECB will buy, Hyung-Ja de Zeeuw, an Amsterdam-based senior fixed-income strategist, wrote in a note Monday.

Kommuninvest issues largest Nordic green bond to date

Bringing an innovative approach to the market, all projects financed by Kommuninvest’s green bond are vetted by an independent advisory committee.

Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Drops Pimco as External Manager

Others include Black River Asset Management, BTG Pactual Asset Management and BNY Mellon Asset Management.

Deutsche Bank Said to Offer Bonds as Capital Concerns Recede

UBS sold $1.5 billion of so-called additional Tier 1 notes on Monday.

Sanne Eyes Hedge Fund Outsourcing In South Africa With IDS Acquisition

The newly acquired company provides services such as calculating net asset values, fund accounting, investor services, and transaction and cash management.

Top European Pension Opts for Roads as Hedge Funds Left Behind

The investor currently has about 6 billion euros in infrastructure assets including toll roads and windmill parks

Royal London enters multi-asset battlefield with sextuple launch

The portfolios which range from Conservative to Dynamic risk spectrums, aim to deliver a positive return in the medium to long term through a broad diversification.

No one likes us, we do care: hedge funds bury the ‘myths’

Jack Inglis, head of the industry’s trade body, asked the public why its image is so bad. The replies made unpleasant reading, but at least he could answer the charges

Dublin loses allure for some insurers

In a survey last October, London-based accounting firm Grant Thornton Singapore Pte. Ltd. said 20% of insurers and reinsurers reported that their board was reviewing the location of their domicile.

Ashburton Investments brings four funds to the UK

Managed by AAA-rated Jonathan Schiessl, and Simon Finch, the fund invests across all market caps

Prime Provides Update on Growing Real Estate Operations and Strengthened Financial Position

Prime Acquisition Corp. is a Cayman Islands company that owns and operates office, commercial and industrial properties in Italy. Prime is focused on building a portfolio of high yield-producing assets.

Old Mutual to split into four businesses

The process should be completed by the end of 2018, the group said on Friday, as it sketched out the details of a keenly-anticipated strategic review.

BPM board member says still working on Banco Popolare merger

The chief executives of the two banks met with ECB officials in Frankfurt on Wednesday and BPM CEO Giuseppe Castagna on Thursday informed a management board meeting about progress.

Friends buy boosts Aviva's profits to £1.4bn

The life business took a higher margin on the pension business and bulk annuity deals it wrote in 2015, pushing the value of its new business up from £473 million to £609 million.

CMC Markets Appoints Goldman Sachs, RBC Capital Markets as Joint Corporate Brokers

CMC Markets offers forex trading in more than 330 currency pairs and CFDs on oil, copper and agricultural products. It is regulated by UK’s financial watchdog FCA.

Bosnian bourse set to launch Islamic share index

SASE, based in Bosnia's autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation, is one of two bourses in Bosnia and has 400 companies listed.

Copia launches first ETF led Smart Beta portfolio proposition to the UK Adviser market

DWA implements this rules-based methodology to select the asset classes with the best relative strength.

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