04/18/2016
Chilean investor who disappeared amid controversy is in Malta - media
Onix Capital promised investors sky-high returns with some clients even guaranteed annual returns of up to 36 per cent.
Alternative Investments
04/18/2016
Lansdowne Partners Nixes CEO Role in Restructuring
The firm’s flagship developed markets fund was down nearly 8% year to date through the first week of April, according to a report by the U.K.’s Sky News.
04/18/2016
UK asset manager buys private equity firm to tap Silicon Valley growth
The firm makes both direct company venture capital investments, where it leverages its network of global relationships to help create value for its portfolio companies, and indirect company investments by investing in venture capital and private equity fu
04/15/2016
OMGI Launches Long/Short Equity Ucits Fund
Old Mutual Global Investors is set to launch a Ucits-compliant version of a long/short fund focused on UK small and mid-cap equities, the group has announced.
04/15/2016
Hedge funds get glacier bond agenda from Iceland’s new PM
Johannsson has little room for error as he tries to guide Iceland through the final steps of unwinding the capital controls in place since 2008
04/15/2016
Italy’s Generali Group continues focus on Asean
Thailand is well placed to serve corporate and commercial lines with infrastructure projects at home and neighbouring countries.
04/15/2016
Italy's Atlas fund struggles to stop sky falling on banks
Some bankers involved in the scheme voiced fears the fund would expose their own banks to the self-inflicted problems of a few lenders, the sources said.
04/14/2016
Tilney Bestinvest introduce one-off advice service
The service will be available to new clients and to existing users of the Group’s non-advised Online Investment Service.
04/14/2016
Societe Generale Securities Services in the UK mandated by Linear Investment Limited
SGSS’ outsourcing platform encompasses a fully integrated set of modular services from execution, liquidity support, middle and back office processes, to core securities processing and asset servicing.
04/14/2016
Hargreaves Lansdown nets £233m in multi-manager fund launch
Hargreaves Lansdown’s fund has an initial charge of 3 per cent and ongoing charge of 1.33 per cent.
04/14/2016
Swiss Re, L&G Said to Weigh Bids for Deutsche Bank's Abbey Life
The asset has an estimated value of about 1 billion pounds ($1.42 billion)
04/14/2016
BNP Paribas REIM seeks a more distinctive European flavour
We see potential to develop individual strategies and a broader European perspective for French (but also other European) clients
04/14/2016
Billionaires Win Approval to Turn London Tower Into Homes
Soaring prices for luxury homes encouraged developers to seek to turn office space into 16,600 new homes in greater London in the two years through May 2015.
04/14/2016
Bennelong Funds Management ramps up offshore expansion
The firm is owned by BRW rich lister Jeff Chapman and pours profits into philanthropic endeavours.
04/14/2016
Octopus Investments launches P2P product for sceptical adviser industry
Loans will never be more than 70 per cent of the value of the property they are secured against.
04/13/2016
One of London’s leading hedge fund managers has given a six-figure sum to the campaign for Britain to stay in the EU
He is a specialist in trading currencies and interest rates based on his views on the direction of monetary policy and economic growth.
04/12/2016
Carmignac's Medecin Likes CoCos, Just Not Deutsche Bank's
CoCos are the first debt securities to get hit if a bank runs into trouble.
04/12/2016
London Stock Exchange Must Be Based In Frankfurt': Now German Politicians Pressure Deutsche Boerse To Reject 'Merger Of Equals
Deutsche Boerse hopes to take over the 215-year-old exchange in a £21billion deal both sides insist would be a ‘merger of equals’.
04/12/2016
Rothesay Life buys £6bn annuity portfolio from Aegon
It is also the first substantial annuity transfer since Solvency II came into force in January 2016.
04/12/2016
Deutsche Asset Management extends fixed income strategic beta ETF range with emerging markets launch
Deutsche Asset Management has launched a quality-weighted fixed income ETF that provides exposure to emerging market sovereign bonds. The ETF has listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Börse and follows the December 2015 launch of Deuts