Aviva bolsters responsible investment team with three hires
Phillipa Grant, Elizabeth Ortiz and Jeremy Ho join Aviva’s real assets unit
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AJ Bell appoints ex-FCA investigations head to board
Fiona Fry to chair risk and compliance committee
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Aviva appoints Ramoutar as environmental sustainability director
Move comes after 14 years spent with Phoenix Group
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Food fuels 4.1% UK retail sales increase
Non-food sales dropped 0.2% in August, according to British Retail Consortium
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Carmignac nabs Newton ESG head
Lloyd McAllister now leads Carmignac’s sustainable investment team
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Former UBS wealth planning head joins KPMG partnership
Shelley Doorey-Williams is part of a double appointment in the wealth and asset management practice
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IA warns Big Four auditors ‘too big to fail’
UK trade body joins calls for enhanced transparency and competition
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Embark floats possible IPO
Embark has floated the idea of pursuing an initial public offering (IPO).
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PA ANALYSIS: EU single market to be ‘fragmented’ by Mifid II
Julie Patterson, head of investment management regulatory change at KPMG, believes this is a big risk because each of the EU’s 28 member states is likely to implement its own slightly different version of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or Mifid II. “The European single market as a whole will be more fragmented as…
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UK manufacturing feels the pressure of weaker sterling
Sterling weakness continued to rock the United Kingdom manufacturing sector in November as further upward pressure on input costs hit home, but demand remained strong.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is Barclays’ new platform the start of Fintech 2.0?
Barclays’ announcement on Monday that it has launched an execution-only platform should come as no surprise. But, it should serve as a reminder to wealth managers not to get too complacent.
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Regulatory clarity provides opportunities
2014 could be the year that the investment industrys increasing regulatory burden begins to carry its own weight, says KPMG.
