NEWS
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp and his co-defendant Milan Mandaric have been found not guilty of attempting to cheat HMRC in the conclusion of their tax evasion trial.
Retail investors are twice as likely to pay more for actively-managed funds than reduced costs for index trackers, research from Lipper has revealed.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been ordered by the Isle of Man regulator to pay compensation to the family of a man following a mis-selling investigation.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
OTHER NEWS ARTICLES
Stephen Hester, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has revealed restructuring costs for the bank have so far totalled £38bn.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Walker Crips Stockbrokers has hired ex-BNP Paribas wealth management chief Mark Rushton as its chief investment officer.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Shares in travel group Thomas Cook were up nearly 8% this afternoon after it reported market share remained stable and revenues were up in the fourth quarter.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Laurence Fink, chief executive officer and co-founder of BlackRock, said investors should have 100% of their investments in equities because of valuations and higher returns than bonds.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, said a deterioration in demand for commodities contributed to a 5.5% slide in half-year profits to $9.94bn (£6.25bn).
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
Neptune has outlined the underweight and overweight sector positions driving its Global Long/Short Sector fund, three months on from launch.
Investment Week | 08 Feb 2012
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s dominant drugs company, has reported a decline in fourth quarter sales and announced a share buyback programme well below analysts' expectations.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has removed Aviva Investors’ Julius Lipner from its UK Strategic Best Ideas fund, amid uncertainty over the group’s retail future.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Poor results from companies such as Unilever, AstraZeneca and Shell last week showed the valuation gap between defensives and cyclicals is closing in a “vicious” fashion, according to JO Hambro Capital Management’s James Lowen.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Francis Brooke, manager of the £428m Troy Trojan Income fund, has initiated a position in Aberdeen Asset Management as he believes the company is transforming itself into a “cashflow machine”.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Newton’s Tineke Frikkee is taking a more cautious view than consensus on UK dividends in 2012, forecasting growth of around 8% for the year.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Legg Mason's global bond portfolio manager, Jack McIntyre, has exited his Canadian and Chinese positions and upped exposure to Mexico as part of a move to higher yielding countries.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
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