Manchester drinks and Citywire North
Next week the Citywire team heads to Manchester for drinks with a mix of investment professionals. There's also still time to register for our second annual Citywire North event.
View ArticleAsset Allocation: how the Iveagh Wealth fund is positioned
Iveagh’s chief investment officer Chris Wyllie has trimmed US equities, arguing the market is starting to look overvalued, which forms part of a broader de-risking exercise.
View ArticleBank of America rings bearish ‘triangle’ for gold at $1250
The price of gold is set to resume its bearish trend downwards, dropping to as low as $1,250 before ‘greater signs of basing emerge', says BoAML.
View ArticleThree-fold rise in trusts rising to transparency challenge
The number of trusts disclosing their full holdings to shareholders has nearly tripled in the space of a year and may have helped tighten the sector's typical discount to around 8.8%.
View ArticleLyxor chairman Dubois to join MSCI in Smart Beta drive
Lyxor Asset Management’s chairman Alain Dubois is leaving the firm to join index provider MSCI in August.
View ArticleHester to step down as RBS chief
(Update) Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that Stephen Hester will step down as chief executive and will leave the bank later this year as it gears up for privatisation.
View ArticleShares the pros are buying and selling
A round-up of trades by professional investors in Charles Stanley (CAY.L), Kentz Corporation (KENZ.L), Rathbones Brothers (RAT.L), 1Spatial (SPA.L) and Sportech (SPO.L).
View ArticleJapanese equities plunge back into bear territory
The Nikkei sank 6.3% in a savage sell-off that pushed the Nikkei more than 20% below its pre-stimulus level and led to stock markets around Asia moving into the red.
View ArticleHaysey follows Breuer-Weil in RIT Capital exit
David Haysey, head of public equities at Lord Jacob Rothschild’s £2 billion RIT Capital Partners, is to leave the investment company, Wealth Manager understands.
View ArticleRBS bears brunt of steep FTSE sell-off
European markets follow Japan and China lower as World Bank cuts global growth forecasts and stimulus fears linger.
View ArticleQuilter bolsters London with Vestra and ex-Barclays hires
Quilter is expanding its 160-strong investment team with the hires of Alex Ford and Jonathan Raymond for its London office
View ArticleDarwin's Jane raises cash weighting to record high
David Jane has taken the Darwin Multi Asset fund's cash position up to 20% after locking in profits on Japanese equities, property and emerging market debt.
View ArticleGAM: what can private clients do about Europe?
Europe has struggled to match the recovery seen elsewhere in the world so GAM's Graham Wainer and Julian Howard set out what private clients can do.
View ArticleFrom Bostock to Brown: odds on seven candidates tipped to replace RBS' Hester
Bookies have been swift to offer odds on the favourites to replace Stephen Hester as boss of Royal Bank of Scotland. Here we take a long at the seven candidates betters believe are in the running.
View ArticleCitywire Scotland: Andrew Lilico on the real problem in Europe
Andrew Lilico of European economics aimed to put to bed misconceptions about the problems in the continent as he took the stage at Citywire Scotland in Turnberry.
View ArticleOFT clears BlackRock/Credit Suisse ETF merger
The Office of Fair Trading has given the green light for BlackRock’s acquisition of Credit Suisse’s exchange traded funds (ETF) business.
View ArticleHenderson: RBS is peculiar and rightly shunned
As the dust settles on news of Stephen Hester's departure from RBS, Henderson head of global equities Matthew Beesley underlines why his successor faces such a tough task.
View ArticleThe Expert View: RBS, HSBC and Chemring
A roundup of some of the best analyst commentary on shares, also including Salamander Energy and Home Retail Group.
View ArticlePolar Capital hikes dividend 44% on profit surge
Polar Capital has rewarded its shareholders on the back of a 60% jump in profit over the year.
View ArticleWalker Crips pays record dividend as discretionary assets jump 64%
Walkers Crips' discretionary business has displayed positive signs in a year of significant change for the private client stockbroker.
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