05/20/2014
Marshall Wace Planning An IPO For P2P Lending Fund
The fund will use in-house computer programs to pick loans that are attractive on P2P lending platforms where borrowers and lenders match-up directly online.
05/20/2014
Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Are a Bank’s Best Friend
If you have a capital problem, if no one else can help, and if you can persuade them, maybe you can cozy up to one of the world’s sovereign wealth funds.
05/20/2014
The CPS is managed by a team including former Wealth Manager cover star Stephen Peters (pictured) and Shauna Bevan. Both also featured in Wealth Manager's Top 100 names in fund selection.
05/20/2014
GLG has launched a leveraged European equity fund and an emerging markets macro strategy.
05/20/2014
Phoenix Asset Management has delayed plans for a mirror investment trust to its top performing Phoenix UK fund.
05/20/2014
Administrative expenses increased to GBP102.1 million from GBP87.1 million
05/20/2014
Smith & Williamson Investment Management has launched a fund focusing on undervalued companies in emerging marketS
05/20/2014
Morningstar OBSR has downgraded the $4.8bn (£2.8bn) Fidelity America fund after the departure of manager Adrian Brass.
05/19/2014
Stories about hefty bonuses and chunky salaries for fresh-faced bankers have been stirring up outraged headlines over the past few years. But another group of people have been quietly raking in equally large amounts without the flak – private equity
05/19/2014
The European market for collateralised loan obligation funds continues to see an uptick with two managers launching vehicles.
05/19/2014
Service allows investors to manage portfolios without advice
05/19/2014
A division of the Rothschild banking dynasty is preparing a swoop on one of the world's biggest suppliers of automotive data in a deal worth close to £150m.
05/19/2014
Lord Abbett is headquartered in Jersey City and has $139 billion (€101.4 billion) in assets under management
05/19/2014
Despite this huge reliance on bank loans for Belgium's SMEs, banks in the country began to slow down their lending to companies following the financial crisis
05/19/2014
The majority of European hedge fund managers that have set up business in recent years have been in the UK
05/19/2014
Video game retailer Game Digital plans to float its shares on the London Stock Exchange in a listing that two sources familiar with the matter said could value the chain at around £400 million.
05/19/2014
Standard Life Equity Income Trust invests in a diversified portfolio consisting mainly of quoted UK equities, normally between 50 and 70 individual holdings.
05/19/2014
Frustrated savers are looking to social or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms for higher rates of interest than those offered by banks - but they want reassurance over the risks, according to a survey this week.
05/16/2014
Cofunds is in talks with the FCA over how to tackle orphan clients ahead of the platform rebates ban on legacy business coming into effect in April 2016.
05/16/2014
A spokesperson for Pictet told Wealth Manager that the decision had been taken ‘in response to clients’ needs for a single US equity strategy which implements a broad-based approach with both value and growth characteristics’.