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  • stirling house model filthy rich

    stirling house model filthy rich

    Stirling House has chosen Sarasin & Partners to manage five new funds of funds for its private clients, giving them access to a model usually reserved for the “filthy rich” it said today.

  • Forecast remains gloomy for troubled EU investors

    Forecast remains gloomy for troubled EU investors

    US bond investors are more bullish about the global economic outlook than UK equities investors, indicating for the first time that geographic location rather than the targeted asset class is driving sentiment and market confidence, research has revealed.

  • lean and mean firms pass fca hike on

    lean and mean firms pass fca hike on

    Financial services professionals across the board have reacted with disdain at the mooted 15% increase in funding for the new regulator, announced yesterday, with one commentator describing his mood as “incandescent”.

  • keydata the structred product scapegoat

    keydata the structred product scapegoat

    Keydata is in the headlines again as a result of the legal action being taken by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) against financial advice firms that sold certain Keydata products for which the FSCS has paid out compensation to investors.

  • outsourcing options switch quilter gam

    outsourcing options switch quilter gam

    After 17 years at Quilter, Charles Hepworth joined GAM to head up its DFM model portfolio business. Would you follow him?

  • Robert James completes UK equities line up at OMGI

    Robert James completes UK equities line up at OMGI

    Robert James has been named as the final new member of Richard Buxton’s UK equity team at Old Mutual and will join the firm in the summer when he leaves Aviva Investors.

  • continue to buy Japan id rather not

    continue to buy Japan id rather not

    The economic stimuli unveiled by the Japanese government may be drawing in equity investors, but not everyone is keen to jump on the bandwagon before seeing if the policies actually work.

  • pa analysis carling investment business old mutual

    pa analysis carling investment business old mutual

    To be strictly accurate, if Carling did investment business it would look like the business that Old Mutual Wealth's CEO Paul Feeney has in mind…

  • uk unveils fatca type info exchange

    uk unveils fatca type info exchange

    The UK government today announced it is to develop and pilot a new “multilateral tax information exchange agreement” with four of its largest fellow EU members.

  • Santander snare Schroders bond manager

    Santander snare Schroders bond manager

    Adam Cordery is joining Santander Asset Management as global head of European fixed income after leaving Schroders last year.

  • Investors demand more

    Investors demand more

    Over a third of investors believe performance is the most important consideration when it comes to fund selection, but 30% of investment advisers doubt the ability of managers to deliver alpha, a duo of surveys has revealed.

  • Wealth and fund managers face FCA funding hike

    Wealth and fund managers face FCA funding hike

    The combined annual funding requirement (AFR) for the FCA and PRA is £646.3m, a 15% increase on the FSA's figure in 2012/2013.