10/28/2014

Advent Life Sciences closes Fund II on 145.5 mln pounds

Advent Life Sciences has closed its Advent Life Sciences Fund II on 145.5 million pounds ($235 million) to seed and build life sciences companies in the UK, Europe and the U.S. Fund II, which will back entrepreneurs and early stage and mid-stage companies

10/27/2014

Pensions infrastructure chief drives new mutual model

Political backing will help, Weston says. Chancellor Osborne hailed the platform’s planned launch in his autumn statement of 2011 with the sound bite “British pension funds for British infrastructure”.

10/27/2014

Haversham Plans To Float On AIM

Haversham said that it plans to float the Company on AIM. Haversham is a group formed by Avril Palmer-Baunack and Marwyn, the specialist investment management company, with the support of institutional investors, including Invesco, Artemis, Aviva and Schr

10/23/2014

Standard Life launches EM equity fund to UK investors

The launch of the OEIC is driven by demand from UK investors who have requested access to the GEM equity unconstrained strategy which has delivered superior returns since inception, outperforming the MSCI Emerging Market Index over six months and one year

10/22/2014

Poland's PZU plans to expand asset management arm

PZU is already Poland's largest insurer and has just bought British insurer RSA's eastern European operations. The aim now is to focus on improving its returns via its asset management arm.