06/10/2014
Tower Gate Capital – the group headed up by former Lehman Brothers banker Bobby Console-Verma – has applied to the Financial Conduct Authority to launch a new compliance platform under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
06/09/2014
Chinese buyers to become ‘biggest overseas force in London’s property market’ by 2016
Harrods Estates has signed an agency-wide partnership with Chinese mega-portal Juwai.com, as new figures are released on the scale of Chinese investment into the capital’s property market
06/09/2014
EM specialist acquires ex-First State and Invesco men's boutique
The £30 million BDT Invest Asian Focus fund is to become the Blackfriars Asian Focus fund. Co-managed by Dobson, Thornton and Rob Brewis, the fund has returned 8.7% over the past three years compared with 6.4% from the MSCI AC Asia Pacific index.
06/09/2014
London accounts for around one-fifth of the UK's total GDP
06/09/2014
Manchester-based advisory firm expands across seas in European mergers
The company has also formalised a strategic alliance with Chinese investment bank InterChina to take advantage of M&A opportunities in Asia.
06/09/2014
British hedge fund manager to Acquire Pine Grove Asset Management
About two-thirds of its assets under management are from institutional investors, primarily based in America
06/09/2014
McClure specialised in UK smaller companies for more than 20 years.
06/09/2014
iShares ETF lists today as first international ETF on the exchange
06/09/2014
At the end of May, the PFS Darwin Multi Asset Fund had GBP47.0 million in assets under management.
06/09/2014
The project will take six years to complete
06/09/2014
At a headline level, Psigma is neutrally positioned in most asset classes
06/09/2014
Alan Miller, known as ‘"Mr Hedge Fund" in the UK due to his success in managing one of Britain’s first equity hedge funds, shares his top tips when it comes to trading and talks about the “scandalous” hidden costs he thin
06/09/2014
The oil and gas mergers and acquisitions market, long known for its mega deals, is surviving at the moment on pockets of activity. But much like small discoveries of oil, bankers hope these smaller finds will eventually lead to the next big wave of merger
06/09/2014
France-based global insurance company Axa has reportedly expressed interest to acquire insurance assets put up for sale by Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco
06/09/2014
Is discretionary fund management, as offered by advisers, due to feel the chill wind of the charges debate?
06/06/2014
Threadneedle's Philip Dicken reacts to the ECB's measures announced
Following yesterday’s announcement by the ECB, Philip Dicken, head of European equities at Threadneedle Investments, reacts
06/06/2014
£5bn London pension fund withdraws from Brevan Howard
The LPFA manages assets with a value of £4.8 billion and could influence other local authority schemes, which represent a total of £178 billion, to review their own active holdings.
06/06/2014
Natixis launches new Luxembourg Sicavs
The Sicav also incorporates a flexible, quantitative and volatility management approach developed by Seeyond.
06/06/2014
Aviva revitalisation starts to yield positive results
In 2013, Aviva announced it would be cutting 2,000 jobs globally. At the time, the move was seen as signalling a clear intention by group chief executive Mark Wilson – who arrived from AIA Group at the beginning of 2013 – to shake up operation
06/05/2014
What’s the alternative? Buyers struggle to find contrarian funds
Alternatives funds should be directional at the start of the cycle