09/08/2014
Since the financial crisis in 2008, the market for liquid alternative investments such as UCITS, or Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, has grown as investors seek hedge fund-like returns in more regulated funds.
09/08/2014
The desire to generate income will become a primary focus of new products.
09/08/2014
Hermes Fund Managers’ Saker Nusseibeh believes it is the responsibility of schemes to drive long termism, not their asset managers
09/07/2014
Financial spread betting firm eyes £1bn float
Former Tory co-treasurer says the firm could be listed in “months” if the market is right
09/05/2014
Insurance group Legal & General has revealed plans to shut down its Ipswich office in a move that is expected to result in approximately 140 job losses.
09/05/2014
Skandia now says it has listened to further feedback and has been told by advisers that there is sufficient demand for the Invesco funds to remain open.
09/04/2014
European Capital Debt Management Limited announced today that it has closed its new £100 million fund, European Capital UK SME Debt LP, a fund to provide debt finance in small and medium sized enterprises in the UK
09/04/2014
The group’s 10th fund became oversubscribed largely because ECI’s existing backers, which committed about 80 per cent of the capital, increased their investments by a third, on average.
09/04/2014
BV Investment Partners, which this week closed its eighth buyout fund with $487 million, said this time around it made a concerted effort to build out a new base of limited partners in Europe.
09/04/2014
The ECB is preparing to buy ABS as it strives to revive lending to small-and medium-sized businesses that employ about 70 percent of the European Union’s private-sector workers.
09/04/2014
Billionaire investor taps Deutsche and UBS for hedge fund portfolio IPO-sources
Sources say they expect the closed-end fund to be listed on the London Stock Exchange before the end of the year.
09/04/2014
Fund manager's £550m acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership also won the Acquisition of the Year award
09/04/2014
The firm said using its own funds will cut down on platform costs, and allow it to input any changes more quickly.
09/04/2014
Cordea Savills has purchased two assets for over €120 million after further fundraising on behalf of Cordea Savills Real Invest 1, a German “Spezialfonds” for institutional investors.
09/03/2014
The Collinson Group's broking division CIB has partnered with Aviva to offer affinity home insurance to corporate partners.
09/03/2014
The Miton Group is to rebrand the PSigma funds it acquired last year with its own name.
09/03/2014
The Alternative Investment Management Association has published an updated edition of its flagship due diligence questionnaire (DDQ), the AIMA DDQ for Hedge Fund Managers.
09/03/2014
The project is based on the former site of one of London's largest horse drawn carriage depots that used to store the elegant landau carriages.
09/03/2014
Despite suggestions of tepid global demand, the UK firm is bolstering its China dedicated strategies with three actively managed debt, equity and multi-strategy RQFII products.
09/02/2014
Russia is preparing to transfer the ownership of a $10 billion sovereign wealth fund to the central bank from a sanctioned state-development lender, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.