Investment general News
27 April 2012
Some Barclays shareholders are expected to vote against the pay of its top executives at the bank's annual general meeting on Friday.
18 April 2012
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
22 September 2011
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has retained second spot in Forbes latest list of America's richest people, despite seeing his personal wealth fall by $11bn.
17 August 2010
Clive Cowdery’s Resolution acquisition vehicle has set its sights on acquiring an asset management firm.
23 July 2010
UK equity income managers say companies are beginning to pay dividends again, despite research forecasting a decline in UK dividends of 6.5% this year.
20 July 2010
Aviva’s Jeremy Charles has joined Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) as an investment director on the UK equities team.
19 July 2010
Investors should switch out of equity income offerings from Axa’s George Luckraft and Jupiter’s Tony Nutt following underperformance, according to Principal Investment Management.
17 March 2010
Denmark's Saxo Bank has shelved plans for a UK property fund, saying prices here are now too steep.
04 January 2010
Aberdeen Asset Management is in talks to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland’s fund management division, reports suggest.
04 January 2010
Syndicate Asset Management has completed the merger of its wealth management subsidiaries to form Ashcourt Rowan.
16 December 2009
Polar Capital's Technology trust rose 13.6% in NAV terms over the six months to 31 October, as its manager tilted the portfolio towards companies benefiting from web-based delivery of IT.
14 August 2009
Brown Shipley has finalised its overhaul of its Solus fund range following overwhelming shareholder approval at the EGMs held on 12 August.
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