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RAB Capital chief executive steps down
Philip Richards has stepped down as chief executive ... Richards co-founded RAB Capital in 1999 with executive ... RAB said Richards will be replaced as chief ... Richards, who will remain an executive director of ... Charles Kirwan-Taylor, head of sales, has also been ... A source close to the firm said: "This...
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Emerging markets manager suffers assets fall
Charlemagne Capital, a specialist emerging-markets fund manager, suffered ... The profits fall was primarily due to an ... Thanks to the revenues drop, Charlemagne said it ... Nevertheless, management fee revenues were 32% higher, at ... Nitin Arora, an equity analyst at the boutique...
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World's largest funds hit $12 trillion
The world's biggest pension and investment funds grew ... These factors helped the top 300 funds in ... The increase in assets was evenly spread across ... The survey also found that the very biggest ... Sovereign wealth funds - defined as those pension ... Carl Hess, Watson Wyatt's global head of investment...
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JO Hambro European manager departs
Willem Vinke, a European equities portfolio manager at ... Vinke's two funds – a pan-European product and ... The first fund fell back nearly 28% during ... In their last performance report, Vinke and Wouters ... A spokeswoman for the asset manager said Vinke's ... Nichola Pease, chief executive of JO Hambro, said...
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Insight bolsters fixed income team
UK asset manager Insight Investment has appointed a ... April LaRusse will join Insight this month from ... Before joining Newton, LaRusse was at London asset ... Insight, the £112bn (€138.1bn) funds arm of UK ... Also joining Insight will be Sonja Uys, as ... Uys was previously with investment bank JP Morgan...
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GSAM makes India push
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has been given the ... The funds arm of Goldman Sachs has received ... Adam Broder has been promoted to chief executive ... Khemka was previously head of the GSAM research ... “India is one of the most important countries ... India will continue to be one of the...
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New Star profit falls 37% on massive outflows
New Star Asset Management on Friday said its ... The fund manager said that retail and institutional ... Net revenues declined 16% to £72.8m. The interim...
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UK hedge fund eyes €3bn African agriculture fund
Emergent Asset Management, the UK hedge fund, is ... The Africa Land Fund has already secured a...
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Lancashire scheme seeks passive equity managers
The Lancashire County Council Pension Fund is to ... According to council meeting minutes released today, the ... The resulting £350m has been managed on a ... Mark Bennet, principal accountant at the fund, said: ... "There has been little evidence of outperformance in...
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GAM hires former Marshall Wace partner
GAM, the asset manager owned by Julius Baer, ... Mark Hawtin joins the London office on October ... He was previously at Marshall Wace Asset Management ... Hawtin said: “GAM’s greatest attraction is its philosophy...
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Investors pull billions out of value funds
Value funds around the world have reported such ... The news comes as value funds go out ... Miller’s assets under management, which include institutional and ... About a third of the fall in assets ... Mary Chris Gay, who works alongside Miller at ... Many funds, including Miller’s, were caught out by...
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Investors in infrastructure rarely win gold medals
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has touching faith ... “I don’t think you need to go above ... Whether investors in large infrastructure projects would agree ... During early construction, builders push up their prices ... Much later, pressure to hit deadlines leads to...
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Schroders agriculture fund almost halves in size
Schroders' agriculture fund has almost halved in size ... The fund – which invests in agricultural commodities, ... Over the five months to the end of ... Robin Stoakley, managing director of Schroders' UK retail ... Schroders added that over the last few months, ... After its launch in October 2006, the fund...
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Henderson chief to retire
Henderson Global Investors, the UK fund manager which ... Yates, who is 51, said this morning he ... He will be replaced by Andrew Formica, head ... He said: "The reason people shouldn't go on ... One headhunter said: "As far as I understand ... Yates, a keen mountaineer, said his first priority...
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Henderson not alone in mulling tax move
Henderson Global Investors is not the only asset ... Henderson, one of London's largest listed asset management ... These deferments allowed it to pay a tax-rate ... However, at the time of its report Roger ... Henderson is not the only company to have ... Others to have mulled it include Aberdeen Asset...
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Meteoric ETF growth suddenly halts
The meteoric rise in exchange-traded funds has slowed ... At the beginning of the year, investors held ... The sudden fall follows growth of 41% in ... The latest figures come from research published by ... The global fall was concentrated in equity ETFs, ... Marc Knowles, head of product management at iShares...
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HSBC reshuffles multi-manager team
HSBC Global Asset Management has named a new ... Guy Morrell, head of the unit's real estate ... Morrell replaces James Hughes, who is relocating to ... The changes comes on the back of several ... Wagner Araujo, the head of HSBC Multimanager in ... Both Morrell and Hughes report to Joanna Munro,...
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Asset managers take short term view on performance
Investment professionals at over two thirds of US ... The report by consultants Cerulli Associates is based ... Benjamin Poor, a director at Cerulli, warned: "Short-termism ... "Compensating employees based on longer term performance rewards ... The report, titled Best Practices for Portfolio Management...
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Jupiter revenues rise in turbulent year
London funds house Jupiter reported a rise in ... Jupiter Unit Trust Management, which looks after Jupiter's ... The rise in revenues coincided with a rise ... Revenue at Jupiter Asset Management Limited, the part ... The figures were published in accounts filed at ... Jupiter Asset Management is led by Edward Bonham-Carter,...
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European selloff ends as buyers return
Fund flows into European equities have turned positive ... According to UBS analysis of clients' trading, institutional ... UBS said that the net selling seen in ... The analysis was made from the Swiss bank's ... Broken down by sector, UBS found that energy ... Consumer staples and financial sector stocks have seen...