Investment

In the heady world of mergers and acquisitions, the proposed sale of Transact by its founding members is unlikely to raise any eyebrows. But in the financial services industry, it is a sign that at least one area of the platform market has finally come...

Japan shifts from arrows to acupuncture

An emerging opportunity in EMEA?

How Prusik Asian Income topped the charts

Scotland's fund industry is lining up tax and legal specialists ahead of the independence referendum, as some predict continuing uncertainty whatever the result.

The FCA has used its consumer protection powers for the first time, banning the sale of contingent convertible securities to the mass market.

The pension pot at the end of the rainbow

Equity Income fund managers are yet to warm to the tobacco sector, despite a strong 2014 for stocks driven by M&A and their defensive qualities.

Standard Life Investments' inflows fell 43% in the first half of this year, but profits still rose 9%.

PIMCO's giant Total Return Bond fund - headed up by Bill Gross - suffered outflows in July, clocking up its fifteenth straight month of withdrawals, according to new data.