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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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Peru trumps UK in banking stability stakes
The UK has plunged 39 places in a ... The UK dropped from 5th to 44th in ... The survey, released yesterday, used a grading from ... Canada was top of the ranking and was ... The survey is part of the WEF’s annual ... Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, said earlier...
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UK banks pile on the pounds for short sellers
Hedge funds were sitting on double-digit returns from ... Between September 19 and yesterday about £26.8bn (€34.4bn) ... Chief among the short sellers has been US ... Hedge funds borrow shares to sell anticipating their ... Proportionately the largest reportable UK short position revealed...
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Revenue doubles at hedge fund Trafalgar
UK hedge fund manager Trafalgar Asset Managers increased ... Trafalgar recorded income of £26.1m in the year ... The increase reflected an increase in the firm's ... The firm ran 11 funds last year and ... Trafalgar Asset Managers' directors said in the accounts, ... Administrative expenses fell last year from £14.8m to...
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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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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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RAB Capital investors back flagship strategy
Investors in the flagship investment strategy of London's ... In a rare move for the hedge fund ... Investors' willingness to commit their funds despite a ... Small mining companies with shares on London's junior ... Falkland Oil & Gas, the £76m exploration company ... In separate news RAB Capital is taking a...
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Morley suffered revenue fall but held profits
Morley Fund Management, the London funds subsidiary of ... The news comes as its parent company today ... Total revenues at Morley were £402m (€506m) for ... According to the accounts, profits were maintained thanks ... A spokeswoman said a £40m rise in fees ... Morley’s assets under management stayed flat, dropping by...
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Data reveal short sellers not to blame for UK bank falls
Short sellers could not have been to blame ... The level of stock borrowing of HBOS shares, ... Investors need to borrow stock if they want ... The levels of stock borrowing of other UK ... Jacob Schmidt, chief executive of independent hedge fund ... UK politicians have lambasted hedge funds as "spivs"...
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Flagship RAB Capital strategy continues to fall
The former chief executive of RAB Capital, who ... Philip Richards resigned from his chief executive post ... The strategy has three feeder funds including two ... The net asset value of RAB's special situations ... Its shareholders will be paying particular attention to ... A spokesman for RAB Capital said the decision...
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Hedge funds quick to close short positions
Investors had largely closed their short positions in ... An expected bounce in the prices of the ... Hedge funds borrow stocks from investors that hold ... The Securities & Exchange Commission, which introduced a ... The most leant UK financials stock, as measured ... However the proportion of equities among the companies...
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Lloyds deal may lead to Scottish Widows sell-off
The £12bn (€15bn) merger of UK mortgage lender ... The analysts, Alastair Ryan and Ross Curran, said ... They expect the combined bank's greater market share ... The analysts added that potential disposals following the ... Spokespeople at Lloyds TSB and Scottish Widows both...
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GLG goes to court over Lehman US sale
London hedge fund GLG Partners has filed an ... The hedge fund filed the objection in an ... The cash was transferred to help boost the ... GLG, which has $23.7bn (€16.1bn) in assets and ... Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection last week, ... GLG said it did not "in principle oppose...
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Hedge funds pour scorn on UK shorting ban
The hedge fund industry has reacted angrily to ... The Financial Services Authority board, under chief executive ... Callum McCarthy, chairman of the FSA, said in ... McCarthy said the FSA will make an exception ... The ban is intended to create "a calming ... The action is similar to Wednesday's move by...
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Robust alternative funds to enter UK stock indices
A dozen UK-listed investment funds, whose share prices ... Only two of the funds that will join ... These are the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, ... BH Global, a listed fund that invests in ... The FTSE 250 index has fallen by 20.2% ... They will be joined by other funds investing...
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Losses deepen at UK wealth manager
The UK arm of wealth management group WMG ... WMG Limited recorded a loss of £1.3m in ... The company’s filing included a paragraph in the ... Company accounts do not usually include a paragraph ... Dalman told Financial News that overall, the WMG ... The accounts of WMG Limited showed its revenue...
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London and New York stand to suffer
The blast furnace known as the finance industry ... Both cities have relied heavily on the securities ... At the Thomas Pink store on Wall Street, ... New York developer Mario Procida is also concerned; ... Even before the weekend, the financial-services industry had ... Jobs in financial services tend to be more...
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UK regulator blasts retail structured products
The UK's Investment Management Association, the trade body ... According to the IMA, some structured products - ... Richard Saunders, IMA chief executive, said: "While the ... Structured products, very popular among continental European investors, ... According to figures from StructuredRetailProducts.com, sales have grown...
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RAB faces 'hard sell' on flagship fund restructuring
London hedge fund manager RAB Capital will face ... Katrina Preston, analyst at Landsbanki Securities in London, ... RAB Capital's flagship special situations fund represents about ... In return for agreeing to stick with their ... In an attempt to reverse the performance of...
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RAB Capital proposes three-year lock on investors in flagship fund
London hedge fund manager RAB Capital is proposing ... Investors in the Cayman Islands-domiciled RAB Special Situations ... The two feeder funds represent more than 90% ... Closing the two feeder funds and returning cash ... A spokesman for RAB said that if investors ... The board of RAB Special Situations Company, whose...
