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John Duffield offers top managers fresh incentives
John Duffield's New Star Asset Management is proposing ... New Star said it had identified 35 executives ... The company's old equity incentive plan is due ... The new schemes will be issued to the ... According to the company's press release: "Given the...
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Courtiers sees derivatives lead over multi-manager strategy
Courtiers Investment Services, the derivatives-based wealth management firm, ... Gary Reynolds, director and chief investment officer for ... Reynolds said: "We feel that derivatives offer access ... “I think derivatives will be favoured by the...
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Alan Steel Asset Management taps Genesis executive for Richmond Core fund
Alan Steel Asset Management has brought in contrarian ... New York-based Williams has assumed control of the ... The Core fund will provide UK retail investors ... According to Genesis, the 500 fund smashed the...
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Top UK wealth executives quit UBS as writedown malaise spreads
Almost a tenth of UBS' wealth management advisers ... Amid fears the troubled investment bank's problems are ... The defections have been in the UK domestic ... The resignations will come as a blow as...
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Investors have little faith in anything but gold
Investors prefer gold than any other investment category, ... Around 28% of those polled feel most confident ... “Even the credit crunch and the biggest fall ... “As with any market, prices will go up ... Only 11% of those polled were confident investing ... Despite growing concerns about falling house prices, property...
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Hale Barns wealth manager eyes law firm acquisition
Formation Group, the UK-based wealth management company which ... Speaking to Crain's last week after the release ... He said the group had about £15m (€19m)...
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Managers warn of rights issue flood
Asset managers, led by Anthony Bolton of Fidelity ... European companies have completed $15bn (€9.7bn) of rights ... Some 83% of these announced rights issues have ... Bolton said UK public companies from many sectors ... Bolton, who ran Fidelity International’s multi-billion pound special...
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Schroders creates growth-orientated income fund
Schroders has added to its range of equity ... The asset manager soft launched the UK Alpha ... The fund, benchmarked against the FTSE All Share ... Meier and Vinatier, who also run the Schroder...
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Julius Baer International shuffles management
Julius Baer International, a UK asset management subsidiary ... Julius Baer International, which caters to UK and ... Juerg Berger, a longstanding employee of Julius Baer ... Gerber had been appointed deputy chief executive of ... Vilén joined Julius Baer International in 2001 as...
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In search of global trends
French-born Virginie Maisoneuve, head of global and international ... By age 11, she'd had her mother find ... Meanwhile, she's parlayed her fascination with China into ... Maisonneuve's mandate at Schroder isn't China-specific- although China ... That includes a hefty chunk of cash from...
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New Star shows signs of recovery
Funds under management at New Star Asset Management, ... In an interim management statement released today, New ... Net outflows at the group for the year ... New Star said the performance was in line ... It also announced that two experienced fund managers ... The fund is due to send details of...
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Origen outsources £65m client portfolio to Brooks MacDonald
Origen has handed over the management of £65m ... The outsourcing will see Brooks MacDonald taking on ... Origen's managed and bespoke portfolio services are moving ... Stephen Greenstreet, managing director of Origen, said: "We...
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Thames River bolsters emerging markets team
Thames River Capital, the UK hedge and traditional ... Donal McGettigan joins as an economist from Emso ... He previously worked as a country economist on ... Thames River has also appointed Felix Martin, a ... The global credit team, established ten years ago ... Tallaksen said: “We have an excellent track record...
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Alchemy's Moulton slams bankers' pay
Jon Moulton, managing partner of UK buyout firm ... Moulton attacked the compensation packages paid to bankers ... He said banks which encourage riskier behaviour through ... Moulton said banks must move to a pay ... He said: “If you put people on 1,000% ... Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers...
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Rathbone Brothers notches up profit in Q1, opens new office
Rathbone Brothers, the UK wealth manager, said in ... The group also said it plans to open ... The wealth manager added that funds under management ... Mark Powell, chairman of Rathbones, said: “Despite the...
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Candy brothers net £6m dividend
Sibling property design team, Christian and Nick Candy ... The brothers transferred the money from Candy & ... In accounts filed last week at Companies House, ... The pair are developing a luxury apartment complex ... They are also key figures in the biggest-ever ... Grand designs for the super-rich are said to...
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JPMorgan remains sceptical over IMA Absolute Returns sector
JPMorgan Asset Management has questioned how investors will ... The new Investment Management Association sector, which launched ... The IMA stressed that performance comparisons would be ... “A cash plus 5% is not necessarily better ... “This is further complicated by the fact the...
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Goodman brothers to sell UK property arm for £110m
Greg and Patrick Goodman, the Australian brothers who ... Greg Goodman is chief executive officer of the ... Aberdeen is to pay about £97.4m for Goodman ... Goodman Property Investors has 93% of its assets ... The Goodmans founded Macquarie Goodman Industrial Trust, which...
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Chief operating officer quits Barclays amid talk of management rift
Barclays’ chief operating officer Paul Idzik unexpectedly quit ... No immediate explanation for his departure was offered, ... More likely is that Idzik felt that his...
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Towergate acquires Scottish wealth adviser
Insurance intermediary Towergate Partnership has expanded its presence ... The move is part of Towergate’s acquisition of ... Under the deal, all of MRSIB's staff have ... Meanwhile, the team at MRSFS, under the leadership...
