09/09/2012
The Charities Property Fund, the first and largest property fund designed specifically for charities, has outperformed the Association of Real Estate Funds’/IPD UK All Balanced Funds Index for the fifth year in a row.
09/09/2012
Despite testing business conditions, the latest quarterly figures for the three month period April to June from the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) show that the number of companies in the UK and Ireland using asset based finance continues to rise.
09/09/2012
Middle East investors have lodged a dramatic $20m bid to take over troubled football club Portsmouth, Arabian Business can reveal.
09/06/2012
BNP has been selling assets over the past year to better withstand the euro zone debt crisis and the global economic slowdown.
09/06/2012
"The sale of Festival Place to TIAA-CREF reflects the winding-down of Grosvenor Festival Place Fund, which soon comes to the end of its life."
09/06/2012
True Potential senior partner Daniel Harison says: “We are strong believers in giving a breadth of choice to IFAs and have been working closely with SEI to add this new product.”
09/06/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland plans to close down its precious metals trading operation, an industry source said, and the bank confirmed it was halting commodities research due to an internal review.
09/06/2012
U.S. bank Citigroup has launched a commodity trade finance unit, expanding into a sector once dominated by European lenders who have been shrinking their activities to cope with the euro zone debt crisis.
09/05/2012
The Credit Suisse LAB Index was up 0.53% in August according to Dr. Jordan Drachman, Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse.
09/05/2012
New fund will buy both senior secured loans and high-yield bonds
09/05/2012
Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s institutional asset management business discuss the top trends affecting the fund management industry in 2012
09/05/2012
Goldberg's report included this straightforward diagram explaining how Man U. could potentially be a self-propelled profit generating machine.
09/05/2012
The insurance division of Royal Bank of Scotland says it plans to cut nearly 900 jobs as it prepares for a stock market flotation.
09/05/2012
Stockholm-based hedge fund raises $500 mln for new longer-term fund
"In recent years, financial markets have become increasingly short term.
09/04/2012
A contemporary of David Cameron's at Oxford University, Mr Chester took the dramatic step after his hedge fund, Pentagon Capital Management, was fined $98.5m earlier this year for allegedly engaging in late trading in mutual funds between 1999 and 20
09/04/2012
Pricing is expected before regular trading opens today in New York, with settlement on Sept. 10, ING said in a separate statement.
09/03/2012
They plan to run the DFAS Bloxham Global Equity Income Fund in exactly the same way before merging it into their existing fund by the end of this year. At that time a new share class is to be created for retail investors.
09/03/2012
The European Union is tightening regulation for recycling and recovering rubbish and has called for 50 percent of household waste to be recycled by 2020 as a way to keep trash away from landfill sites.
09/03/2012
The Fund aims to deliver an annualised gross excess return of eight per cent per annum over LIBOR using currency, sovereign and credit strategies, and is scheduled to launch in October 2012.
09/02/2012
Barclays Capital, the investment arm of the bank, has prompted fresh criticism after they reportedly made more than £500million by speculating on food staples while millions around the world face starvation and crippling food prices.