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The British press headlines are screaming 'Obama’s boot on the throat of the British pensioner', while the US President is referring, scathingly, to 'British Petroleum' - not 'BP' - as the monster polluter in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, a leading investment manager specialising in insurance linked securities (ILS), attracted inflows of $340m from 11 UK institutions into its catastrophe reinsurance fund in the second half of 2009. The latest inflows bring total assets under management in the platform to $2.6bn.
Moves by European regulators to provide a standard risk rating for investment funds needs further refining to make them truly effective for consumers, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the Investment Management Association (IMA).
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Kotak Mahindra (UK) Ltd is to launch its India Growth fund, the third sub fund of Kotak Funds which is a UCITS III compliant SICAV domiciled in Luxembourg.
US firm Alacra has launched a web application that extracts relevant intelligence and information from web-based news alerts, headlines and press releases.
Alquity Group, which was formed in November 2009 through the inclusion of Smoothed Growth Investment Management and Alquity Investment Management, is to launch a new fund which aims to support microfinance projects in Africa, as well as providing a normal return to investors.
A survey of business leaders from Isle of Man based financial and professional services companies reveals confidence levels remain strong, despite global economic uncertainty and pressures facing international finance centres.
The risk rating of balanced managed funds varies widely, according to new research from Skandia, with only 5% of funds having an expected risk rating of five out of ten when measured on the firm's own risk scale.
Standard Life Investments is to make its Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV fund range available to Dutch investors after receiving public distribution status from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AGM).
Global financial services group Religare Enterprises has approved a $1bn commitment for strategic investments in diversified asset management businesses globally, and approved an initial strategic investment in US-based private equity firm Northgate Capital.
Independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore Partners has acquired key assets of the Private Funds Placement Group of Neuberger Berman.
The standoff between Greece and the EU refuses to lie down, however it was IFAonline.co.uk's sister title 'Risk' magazine which skilfully pinned down the exact numbers in an article published in 2003.
Future Capital Partners (FCP), the £6 billion alternative investment boutique, has struictured a private equity deal that will allow UK investors to engage in the rapidly growing Renewable Transport Fuels (RTF) sector for the first time.
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