07/21/2014
Dutch pension funds failing to clarify asset management costs, AFM warns
The AFM, together with regulator De Nederlandsche Bank, recently conducted a survey of the annual reports of more than 50 pension funds and concluded that determining exactly how costs related to risk and return was “hardly possible”.
07/21/2014
Large houses bow out as new fund groups emerge
Market volatility in the past 12 months, means the 2014 100 Club list throws up some new faces in the group categories.
07/21/2014
The Perth-based investment company said £822,950 of the losses booked for the year are attributed to its disposal of loss-making corporate finance arm, Envestors, which was offloaded to management last December.
07/20/2014
Commercial loan hailed as first of its kind, as Lloyds Bank hails important extension to green bonds market
07/20/2014
UBS Asset Management has opened up its long-running Xtra Yield strategy to a wider European investor audience with a Ucits-compliant version of the fund.
07/18/2014
Buxton added SSP to his £1.4bn Old Mutual UK Alpha last week, initiating a 1 per cent position that gives him a “nice base” to grow further as the company progresses.
07/18/2014
We are pleased to launch the Germany DAX 30 ETF & feeder fund
07/17/2014
UniCredit has received at least three binding offers for debt collection unit UCCMB, which Italy's biggest bank by assets has put up for sale as it tackles its large stock of soured loans.
07/17/2014
The partnership also announced its first major property acquisition on Frankfurter Tor in Berlin, which it plans to redevelop into around 552 apartments, including ground floor and basement retail units.
07/17/2014
More than 120 securities regulators are full members of IOSCO and the HFSB will join 62 other affiliate members involved in the markets, including the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and the International Capital Market Association.
07/17/2014
Climate bonds initiative could attract up £23bn in 2014, giving a major boost to low-carbon economy
07/17/2014
Legal & General, the UK insurer, said Thursday it will begin lending money directly to companies through a tie-up with private equity manager Pemberton Asset Management, as it continues to move into the traditional territory of banks.
07/17/2014
Its mission is to simplify digital currencies and to make them more accessible
07/17/2014
Square Mile Investment Research has announced the launch of a new fund recommendation service.
07/16/2014
The platform will enable wholesale participants of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) to conduct over-the-counter (OTC) broking of precious metals on an electronic trading platform, London-based Autilla said in a press release on Tuesday.
07/16/2014
The council also said an investment in tobacco was at odds with its responsibility for public health
07/16/2014
In terms of its global positioning and international expertise in the private equity asset class, BNY Mellon is the ideal partner for us
07/16/2014
He noted that the UK small- and mid-cap sectors have underperformed this year relative to larger companies. Nickols believes that there are two reasons for this.
07/16/2014
The Republic of Macedonia is to issue a seven-year benchmark-sized euro-denominated bond, according to a lead.
07/16/2014
A similar process took place in the silver market in recent months and that yielded an electronic auction mechanism to replace a daily conference call with three banks.