Robo-adviser Scalable Capital to offer financial advice
Scalable Capital, a digital wealth manager, has announced it will be offering clients professional advice through financial advisors, effective immediately.
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Franklin Templeton acquisition sees familiar face return
Franklin Templeton has struck a deal to acquire Edinburgh Partners, which will see the return of alumnus and former executive VP Dr Sandy Nairn.
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Winterflood ousts Train and sticks with Woodford in 2018 picks
Winterflood Investment Trusts (Wins) has made a number of changes to its model portfolio, including dropping Nick Train’s Finsbury Growth & Income Trust and adding the Aurora Investment Trust.
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Coutts’ Higgins: ‘Very dangerous’ to shun equity bull run
It is “very dangerous” for investors to be out of equities at this late stage in the US cycle, Coutts’ Alan Higgins has warned.
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Fresh pain for Woodford picks
Wednesday trading brought fresh pain for Neil Woodford-majority owned companies, Provident Financial and Utilitywise, putting him on shaky ground early into the new year.
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Brewin Dolphin to slash MPS costs up to 27%
Brewin Dolphin has announced it will be cutting costs across its managed portfolio service by between 17% and 27% through switching to a segregated mandate structure from its current pooled retail funds model.
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Vultures circle Carillion pensions
Just a day after Carillion entered liquidation, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has warned that it has already seen signs that scammers are looking to exploit defined benefit scheme members.
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Blackrock: Active vs passive should be a thing of the past
The active versus passive debate could be history by 2025, according to Blackrock’s Joe Parkin.
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The five most in-demand investment trusts
The Association of Investment Companies has revealed the five most searched investment trusts on its website in 2017.
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BNY Mellon IM launches EM debt total return fund
BNY Mellon Investment Management (IM) has launched an emerging market debt total return fund in response to the “demand for a long-only EM debt strategy”.
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Managers begin 2018 in bullish mood
Global fund managers have begun 2018 in bullish mood, dropping cash balances to a five-year low and increasing equity exposures to a two-year high, according to the latest BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey.
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Provident Financial posts bigger loss; JD Sports upgrades profits
Tuesday was a mixed bag for FTSE 250 trading updates, with Provident Financial predicting a bigger loss for its troubled home credit division and JD Sports and Ashmore reporting that business is booming.
