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Prudential signals retreat from UK annuity market

The insurer has been a big operator in bulk annuities, in which the customers are corporate pension schemes.

Zurich Insurance sees big hit from UK winter storms

The deterioration in earnings track record over the last few quarters makes the stock vulnerable.

Hedge Funds Facing Exit Choice as Iceland Brings `Pot of Money'

Iceland’s premier, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, in an interview last week, said the investors should prepare themselves to accept a “reasonable price” to exit the controls.

Man dies in fall from roof of exclusive restaurant at heart of London's financial district

Coq D'Argent is an exclusive rooftop restaurant in an eight storey building near the Bank of England.

First Global Credit Expands Bitcoin Margin Trading to London Stock Exchange

The platform has over 1300 registered clients

London University Creates $72 Million Venture Capital Fund

The fund will invest in promising technologies across the university’s many disciplines, from life science to engineering to communications technology.

Asset manager snaps up Europe's largest independent high-yield manager

They also like Northill's offer of operational independence and a low profile.

Curtis Banks buys rival Suffolk Life in £45m deal

Consolidation in the SIPP market continues

Vanguard attracts record cash for fourth year running

Hedge fund managers have suffered a performance crisis since 2010

Digital Asset Holdings opens London office; hires more bankers

Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain startup helmed by former JP Morgan luminary Blythe Masters, has brought onboard more banking heavyweights and opened a London office.

Unigestion launches two multi-factor funds in collaboration with RPMI Railpen

The portfolio construction and allocation between these factors will be actively determined through Unigestion’s top-down macro as well as stock-level risk assessment.

Henderson to merge EM funds as ‘reboot’ begins

The Emerging Markets Opportunities fund has shed 14.4 per cent over the past 12 months, according to FE Analytics.

Panmure storms into the top five London advisors

JP Morgan Cazenove has been dethroned as the only leader of two listings

Amidst a Global Economic Slowdown, Italy Positions Itself as an Attractive Investment Destination in the U.S.

The investment tour coincides with a €60 million "Extraordinary Italian Taste" public awareness campaign in the U.S. to promote "authentic" Italian food, in light of a 180% increase of "Italian-sounding" foreign food pr

Which popular funds have lost their top rating in FE’s latest rebalance?

Some 152 lost more than two crowns

Curtis Banks buys rival Suffolk Life in £45m deal

Consolidation in the SIPP market continues

Hawksmoor splits off fund management arm

Separating team from private client side

KPMG wants to sell Romanian insurer Astra’s business as a whole

This includes about one million insurance policies that are still valid together with the employees, the company’s headquarters, and internal procedures.

Fidelity Real Estate buys two retail warehouses from Aviva

The Fidelity UK Real Estate Fund has completed the purchase of two retail warehouses in the UK from Aviva Investors making a total of 10 acquisitions for the Fund in 2015.

Not even Nevsky knows how bad things will get - or for how long

The decision by Nevsky Capital, a London-based hedge fund, to close down shows that the global economy is simply a mystery at the moment

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