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Vestra wins favour of entrepreneurs
David Scott, managing partner of start-up London-based adviser ... He said: “They read about the court case ... The reputations of several large banks are being ... Problems with municipal debt, instruments known as auction-rate ... By contrast, based on an admittedly short record...
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Buyers put faith in shares
Even though property values are set to fall ... Cash is still king for David Scott, managing ... Robin Goodchild at LaSalle Investment Management said: “There ... Alan Carter, head of real estate sales at ... He said: “We live and work in extraordinary ... Elsewhere, the wealthy Pears family backed a vehicle...
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Emotional fund to launch
Bernard Duffy, head of US equities at County ... His offshore fund, branded Emotional Assets Management & ... He believes prices in certain sectors are overstretched. ... But Duffy said bargains lay buried elsewhere. “Asset ... The sectors include maps, classic cars, coins, musical...
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Armageddon averted – at 3.30pm tomorrow
The time to get back into the equity ... Taking his cue from charts of share price ... He said investors should be ready to reinvest ... Griffiths, a portfolio manager at Cazenove Capital Management, ... The FTSE 100 fell 8.85% to 3932 on ... Griffiths is unwilling to forecast price movements beyond...
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Soros star backs boutique
Nick Roditi, a star fund manager who worked ... One of the pioneers of the UK hedge ... Mervyn Hughes, formerly the chief operating officer at ... Calum Graham and Christian Dangerfield, who managed a ... Spencer House closed the Asia fund along with ... It is understood that Belvedere manages internal assets...
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Survival of fittest will determine managers’ fate
Which asset managers will be next? The tie-up ... First this year was the completion of the ... Then Germany’s Allianz Global Investors, fourth biggest, said ... Similar to the other mergers, and in a ... No one had been expecting the tie-up, not ... Alain Papiasse, a member of BNP Paribas’ executive...
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Old-school advisers exit the industry
Until recently, large wealth managers were weathering the ... But the old-school approach of financial advisers to ... A conference in Boston, hosted by NorthStar Systems, ... Delegates said the next generation must advocate continuous ... Delegates said that since the crunch had begun,...
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Toscafund in talks with investors to revamp flagship fund
Toscafund Asset Management is in talks with clients ... Tosca, set up in 2000 by Tiger Management ... It is considering plans to split the shares...
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Russia falls as 'darling' of emerging market investors
Russian assets have dramatically turned from being the ... Commerzbank analysts wrote in the report entitled, Russia ... The escalation of the credit crunch in the ... Michael Ganske, Commerzbank analyst, said Russia is trying ... But unlike the US, where there has been ... “We are clearly in a distressed market...
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JO Hambro appoints CEO
London investment boutique JO Hambro Capital Management has ... Gavin Rochussen, formerly chief executive of Fleming Family ... Jamie Hambro, chairman of the company, said: "Nichola ... Pease joined JO Hambro as chief executive from ... She is married to Crispin Odey, the founder...
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ETF assets continue to fall
Assets held in exchange-traded funds have continued to ... According to Debbie Fuhr, who is now a ... However, Fuhr maintained her prediction for growth in ... In a presentation on the industry, Fuhr said ... At the end of the third quarter, just ... Exchange-traded funds enjoyed substantial growth in recent years,...
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Resolution recruits head of alternatives ahead of merger
Resolution Asset Management has hired a head of ... Tim Sweeting joins the firm from Credit Suisse ... He will report to Jonathan Polin, sales and ... After the two firms merge in November to ... A report on the asset management industry last ... He wrote: "The polarisation of flows to the...
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Stars of Morgan Grenfell still shine
Ten years ago London-based Morgan Grenfell Asset Management ... Things went well when the team pulled together. ... Problems were exacerbated by the sense of entitlement ... Former UK equities chief Adrian Frost said: “We ... Keith Percy, who ran the business until 1996,...
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Short-selling ban hits 130/30 funds
The ban on shorting financial stocks that has ... But hedge funds are not alone in their ... These funds, which use leverage in an attempt ... However, none produced a positive return over the ... This is not what investors expected when 130/30 ... But Larry Tabb, chief executive of Tabb, said:...
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Brevan Howard recruits high-profile names
Brevan Howard Asset Management, Europe’s largest hedge fund ... Philippe Lespinard, formerly the deputy chief executive at ... Vilas Gadkari, a founder of Rubicon Fund Management ... Krishnan Sadasivam, a co-founder of hedge fund KDA ... Luigi Buttiglione has joined the firm from Fortress...
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Investors mull commodity diversification
Institutional investors in the UK are increasingly interested ... Lyxor's finding - that six of its respondents, ... The consultancy Mercer's annual asset allocation survey, which ... About 5% of its clients said they planned ... Some of the larger pension funds in the ... Both ABP, the €205bn civil servants' scheme, and...
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Sigma's fall could worsen market's pain
The latest wave of financial turmoil has crippled ... In a sign of the repercussions of last ... The default will likely leave investors in some ... If the banks sell, they could worsen the ... Sigma's lenders could choose to keep the fund's ... An official at Gordian Knot., which runs Sigma,...
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UK investors shun traditional funds
UK retail investors continued to pull money from ... In August, UK investors withdrew a net £1.3bn ... Investors fled from European excluding UK equities funds, ... However, the statistics show relief for UK bond ... The IMA statistics cover both retail investors placing...
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Fortis takes control of Artemis
Belgo-Dutch bank Fortis has taken over Edinburgh funds ... Fortis, which owned 67.1% of Artemis, paid €397m ... Dick Turpin, managing director at Artemis, said in ... Fortis inherited its stake in Artemis earlier this ... US fund group Affiliated Managers Group will remain...
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Hedge fund managers doing deals to keep investors
Scrambling to hold on to investors, hedge fund ... UK hedge fund RAB Capital on Tuesday said ... Hedge funds are restructuring, changing their fees and ... Tuesday was the deadline for many investors to ... Withdrawals not only hurt funds' profits but can ... The number of funds in operation and the...
