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22 March 2019
First quarter investment company fund raising boosted by Baillie Gifford's new institutional offering and Supermarket Income placing £45 million of shares.
21 March 2019
Walter Price and fund management team of Allianz Technology scoop their biggest performance fee in four years after squeezing out a near double-digit return from volatile markets last year.
21 March 2019
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon is asking shareholders for permission to invest 10% of its top-performing Japanese smaller companies portfolio in unlisted stocks following its earlier investment in Moneytree app.
20 March 2019
Schiehallion Fund is a new closed-end investment company dedicated to the rapidly growing unlisted ‘unicorns’ that fund manager’s flagship Scottish Mortgage Trust has successfully pioneered.
20 March 2019
North America investment trust replaces its lead fund manager Garrett Fish and moves to a hybrid growth-and-value strategy under two fund managers in bid to revive investor interest.
19 March 2019
JPMorgan Global Growth and Income fund manager Jeroen Huysinga is stepping down to retrain for a new career in the charity sector.
18 March 2019
Former Sainsbury’s boss Justin King joins fund manager advising Supermarket Income to help real estate investment trust build its portfolio of stores.
18 March 2019
Interserve’s fall into administration wiped out contractor's shareholders but has not saddled listed social infrastructure funds with the problems they faced after collapse of Carillion, though HICL and INPP have some exposure.
18 March 2019
A high dividend yield and low price to forecast earnings make the UK stock market look comparatively cheap, but dig a little deeper and the FTSE 100 flatters to deceive.
15 March 2019
Veritas’s Andrew Headley was the one of 10 fund managers picked by Witan to achieve a positive return last year as £1.8 billion global fund underperformed stock market and main rival Alliance Trust.
