Coronavirus weekly round-up: Delta variant casts cloud over England reopening; US inflation surges and G7 leaders flock to Cornwall
Six investors mull the events shaping portfolios over the past week
Author: Kristen McGachey
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Gresham House calls truce with GHS board and withdraws request for emergency meeting
Trust’s manager had been at odds with the board over governance concerns
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Specialist private client firm ploughs £4.3m into Mark Barnett’s unquoteds purchased at steep discount
Neil Woodford stigma helped Hambro Perks swipe portfolio of 16 unlisted stocks earlier this year
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Ex-ASI duo team up to launch private equity boutique
Bread Street Capital plans to launch a series of stock-exchange listed private equity funds
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Close Brothers AM nabs another Rathbones hire for HNWI push
Rob Crawshaw joins Rathbones alum Tim West in the Mayfair office
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ASI revises performance targets across equity income funds
Move away from explicit outperformance levels could give fund group more ‘wriggle room’ on AoV report
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Leigh Day to issue proceedings in High Court against Link over Woodford collapse
ACD ‘vigorously defending’ claim it mismanaged Neil Woodford’s former fund
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Chair of former Woodford trust bows out
Susan Searle had overseen Woodford Patient Capital’s decline and rebirth as Schroder UK Public Private
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Lindsell Train trust ditches controversial gilts benchmark after generating £5.3m performance fees
Fees for the year ended 31 March 2021 were higher than 2018 and 2019 combined
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Fidelity adviser platform poaches from M&G for head of proposition
Sam Christopher has previously worked at Aegon, Legal & General and Cofunds
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Patience wearing thin with FCA’s snail-like progress two years on from Woodford fund suspension
City watchdog must ‘recognise its own failings in this saga and not just act as judge, jury and executioner’
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Ninety One nabs Aviva Investors’ Stephanie Niven to expand sustainable fund offering
Follows a bumper year for Ninety One Global Environment fund