10/22/2014
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.
10/22/2014
Home buyers deterred by talk of Mansion Tax and impending general election
10/22/2014
The euro fell more than half a cent against the dollar and credit indices tightened sharply.
10/22/2014
Big Four firm KPMG has turned its attention to SMEs with the launch of KPMG Enterprise, a £40m extension of the firm’s mid-market services
10/22/2014
The investment centre can be accessed via the Modular iPlan from 0.18 per cent per annum for cases above £195,000. This gradually reduces to 0.05 per cent per annum for assets of £1m and above.
10/22/2014
Last week, Prince Harry attended a fundraising gala dinner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in west London held by 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) to raise money for children’s charity WellChild.
10/21/2014
Crispin Odey has been advised to appeal to the secretary of state, after planners rejected his application for "stark and manmade" railings at his Forest of Dean estate.
10/21/2014
AMP Capital has created a global infrastructure platform by combining a new Global Infrastructure Fund with its existing Strategic Infrastructure Trust of Europe (SITE).
10/21/2014
Barclays is seeking to include a D2C discretionary investment service offering model portfolios to clients in its relaunched consumer platform proposition, Investment Week understands.
10/21/2014
Aegon UK has launched a new Whole of Life protection policy designed to provide money to help cover an inheritance tax bill payable on a customer’s estate when they die.
10/21/2014
A target deal size of around $700 million means that opportunities for CVC to invest have so far been limited
10/20/2014
The operators of European dark pools are stepping up efforts to encourage larger institutional orders because forthcoming European Union caps on dark pool volumes will not apply to large trades.
10/20/2014
It’s official the fund managers are in revolt.
10/20/2014
The operators of European dark pools are stepping up efforts to encourage larger institutional orders because forthcoming European Union caps on dark pool volumes will not apply to large trades.
10/18/2014
The French investment crowdfunding platform Sowefund, launched in September 2014, has been approved to operate a crowdfunding platform under the French statute designating the Conseiller en Investissements Participatifs by ORIAS. The French investment cro
10/17/2014
State Street Global Advisors has launched what it claims is the world’s first passive global convertible bond exchange traded fund.
10/17/2014
London-based property investment manager Cordea Savills aims to place €750m in German investor equity commitments in 2014, and plans €300m more acquisitions for this client group across Europe before year end.
10/17/2014
Despite mounting General Election concerns and Mansion Tax threat: ""Investment fundamentals for the London market remain strong"
10/17/2014
Two former Conversus Capital executives that launched a specialist advisory firm have laid the groundwork for their first project.
10/17/2014
The L&G facility will entitle the group to draw down up to GBP260 million to finance the repayments.