News

Neptune CEO Robin Geffen is buying into the Japanese recovery led by Shinzo Abe, dismissing comparisons to earlier efforts to revitalise the country.

Zurich UK Life has appointed Richard Romer-Lee's new consultancy firm to help with the launch of a new investment fund proposition for its intermediary platform in the coming year.

Alexander Friedman, global CIO at UBS Wealth Management, sees Japan as ‘more of a risk' to investors than China in the coming year.

Four former bosses of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing - including its chief executive and chairman - have been jailed for between three and five years in the heaviest sentences for financial fraud in Iceland's history.

After Shinzo Abe took power late last year, Japan has been 2013's undisputed success story.

Russell Investments has appointed Mirko Cardinale as head of asset allocation in the EMEA region.

Ashcourt Rowan has agreed a deal with Duke Street General Partner to acquire UK Wealth Management (UKWM), funding the purchase through a share placing.

Philip Saunders, portfolio manager of the the Investec Diversified Growth fund, has outlined four investment themes for investors to consider in 2014.

Mainstream emerging markets may have remained thoroughly out of favour this year, with developed nations driving global equity returns, but surprises can still be found in the top ten markets of 2013.

Brewin Dolphin is cutting investment services for clients with portfolios valued at under £50,000 due to unsustainable costs.