12/01/2014
Institutional investors may soon be stepping up investment via active exchange-traded funds after consultant Towers Watson, one of the Big Three consultants that advises clients worth $2 trillion, gave them a qualified thumbs-up.
12/01/2014
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, will invest almost $3 billion into green technology stocks next year
12/01/2014
The award follows hot on the heels of last month’s win for SLIPIT at the Investment Adviser 100 Club Awards.
11/30/2014
Figures for the UK show only 7 per cent of retail investment funds are managed by women.
11/30/2014
Lloyds Banking Group’s insurance arm Scottish Widows has put its offshore investment and tax planning business up for sale in the latest sign that dealmaking in the sector is heating up.
11/28/2014
A series of residential towers is set to spring up in cities across Britain as property developers and investors seek to emulate the kind of high-rise housing which is common in the US and Asia.
11/28/2014
A Shropshire financial advice firm has been recognised once again as one of the best in the business in a prestigious national league table.
11/28/2014
Hedge fund and property fund managers are facing unexpected charges and administrative hurdles to sell their funds across Europe, deterring some from doing so and cutting across the principle of an open market
11/28/2014
The Careplaces Fund is a property fund specialising in healthcare managed by Bridges Ventures in partnership with care home developer Castleoak.
11/28/2014
You want to work in private equity. Of course you do – as an industry it’s more prestigious than investment banking. It’s also more interesting, pays better and (theoretically) involves less work.
11/28/2014
Fiveways Financial Planning director Chris Gilchrist has teamed up with Parmenion to overhaul his firm's investment offering
11/28/2014
Fund managers gets first investment trust focused on UK 'micro cap' companies off the ground.
11/28/2014
Platforms will hold off cutting fees further until after they have dealt with significant changes to pricing structures in the first half of 2016
11/27/2014
World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Hunts for Tailored Benchmark Index
Norway’s $860 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, says designing benchmark indexes that give its portfolio managers greater investing freedom will help drive up returns.
11/27/2014
AIFMD fuels strong growth in European fund domiciles, says ALFI
The introduction of the AIFMD has fuelled strong growth in European fund domiciles, with the number of alternative investment funds increasing by 10% since 2010, and assets under management increasing by 13%.
11/27/2014
Internet entrepreneur Bill Dobbie has launched a Scottish-based crowdlending platform aimed at offering small businesses an alternative to bank funding.
11/27/2014
MSDC currently owns 30.6 million shares in the company, making it Serco’s sixth-largest shareholder, according to a filing made by the FTSE 250-quoted firm with the London Stock Exchange.
11/27/2014
Thomas Moore, an Investment Director within Standard Life Investments’ UK Equities team is responsible for managing the Standard Life Investments UK Equity Income Unconstrained Fund, the Standard Life Equity Income Trust and for analysing the banks
11/27/2014
The European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards remains the only signature event held exclusively for the European fund of hedge fund sector and as such continues to attract the top names from the industry.
11/27/2014
In a welcome development, Jersey's Chief Minister has signed into law new legislation designed to simplify and encourage the establishment and operation of hedge fund management businesses in Jersey.