asset management Archives

  • Finance

    Alderwood Capital, the fund management business launched by former Northill Capital founder Jon Little, has made a trio of hires…

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  • Finance

    A hedge fund manager who took his own life last year was experiencing high stress amid a tough time for…

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    M&G, the UK-listed fund management group, will begin to phase out coal across its investments, making it the latest asset…

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  • Finance

    Pressure is mounting on SoftBank-backed Greensill Capital after major backers signalled moves to halt trading in and out of the…

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  • Finance

    Daniel Loeb, chief executive of hedge fund Third Point, said he has been on a “deep dive” into cryptocurrency recently…

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  • Finance

    Analysts working at investment giant Fidelity International, the $706bn asset manager, predict almost a quarter of all the companies they…

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  • Finance

    Eric Lane, the co-head of Goldman Sachs global asset management business, is stepping down six months after being appointed to…

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  • Banking

    JPMorgan Chase is stepping up its search for acquisition targets as competition intensifies from financial technology firms and other new…

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  • Finance

    Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s two largest asset managers, have been singled out for having the highest exposure to the…

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  • Finance

    Axa Investment Managers, the asset management arm of the French insurance giant, posted a more than three-fold increase in new…

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  • Finance

    St James’s Place, the UK listed wealth manager, plans to axe 200 jobs following an almost 40% drop in pre-tax…

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  • Finance

    The Investment Association has been called out for a lack of ethnic diversity on its board, after itself urging some…

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  • Finance

    European market officials will analyse the risks of zero-commission stock trading apps such as Robinhood in the wake of the…

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  • Finance

    The UK’s fund management lobby group will turn up the heat on companies in the coming months over ethnic diversity in…

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  • Finance

    Some of the world’s largest investors have indicated bitcoin is in bubble territory, with almost 30% predicting frenzied speculation will…

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  • Finance

    Neil Woodford has had plenty of time to consider his options following the spectacular implosion of his business just 16…

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  • Banking

    Wells Fargo plans to sell its asset-management business to two private equity firms, part of Chief Executive Charlie Scharf’s efforts…

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  • Finance

    Wells Fargo, the US-headquartered bank, has struck a deal to offload its asset management arm in a transaction worth $2.1bn.…

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  • Finance

    Standard Life Aberdeen, the FTSE listed asset manager, has sold the Standard Life moniker to UK insurer Phoenix Group —…

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  • Finance

    Billionaire hedge fund mogul Alan Howard and a selection of current and former Goldman Sachs partners are among the backers…

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  • Finance

    Two former BlackRock employees have written to the boss of the world’s largest asset manager saying that they faced racial…

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  • Finance

    Invesco has topped a twice-yearly list of worst-performing investment funds for the sixth time running, with almost a dozen of…

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  • Finance

    Funds focused on environmental, social and governance issues are “no longer optional” for asset managers and interest in them will…

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  • Finance

    A long-time gold bull and prominent investor Jeffrey Gundlach has had his head turned by cryptoassets, after noting that bitcoin…

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  • Finance

    The British parliament’s influential Treasury Committee has called on the UK’s finance watchdog to clarify when it expects to conclude…

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  • Finance

    Robinhood chief executive officer Vlad Tenev offered an apology for the company’s decision to temporarily curb trading in some stocks,…

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  • Finance

    Paul Myners, the former City minister, has joined the growing chorus of voices calling for an independent inquiry into the…

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