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Gemini teams with Motilal Oswal for Ucits III offering
By International Adviser 31-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Gemini Investment Management is set to launch its first Oeic in conjunction with Indian fund manager Motilal Oswal Asset
Management.
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Investors flee Europe as redemptions skyrocket
By International Adviser 30-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
The European funds industry suffered a mass exodus of client money in May, with investors redeeming a net total of €18bn ($23.3bn) during the month.
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Glendevon King launches Lux global bond fund
By International Adviser 27-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Glendevon King has launched a global bond fund for European investors.
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New Star, Henderson products merged
By International Adviser 25-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
The New Star European Growth Dublin Oeic has merged into the Henderson Horizon Luxembourg Sicav and been renamed the
Henderson Horizon European Growth Fund.
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BNY Mellon, Western get approval for China venture
By International Adviser 24-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
BNY Mellon and Western Securities have set up a joint venture investment company in China.
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Royal London 360º claims mirror funds underperform
By Internatiional Adviser 23-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Royal London 360° has highlighted the underperformance
of life company ‘mirror’ fund links versus direct investments.
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Friends Provident International slams claim
By International Adviser 20-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Friends Provident International (FPI) has hit back at the research from Royal London 360° on life company mirror funds, saying it is counterproductive.
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Prudential Int’l architecture portfolio bond gets facelift
By International Adviser 19-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Prudential International has upgraded its open architecture portfolio bond with the addition of five discretionary managers.
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Singapore’s Jigsaw Wealth Mgt clarifies deVere deal
By International Adviser 17-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Singapore’s Jigsaw Wealth Management has sought to clarify its staffing deal with deVere Recruitment amid growing pressure to
explain the terms of the arrangement.
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BlackRock offers its Global funds range in Singapore
By International Adviser 16-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
BlackRock, the New York-based funds giant, has made a range of popular BlackRock investment products available to retail investors in Singapore who previously could not access them.
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Rudolf Wolff puts faith in London with Luxembourg-domiciled property Sicav
By International Adviser 13-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Rudolf Wolff, a specialist UK investment house, has
launched a Luxembourg-domiciled central London commercial property fund.
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Skandia aims bespoke bond at UK expats based in Spain
By International Adviser 12-Aug-2010 09:00 AM
The Spanish Collective Investment Bond (CIB) is based on the firm’s suite of offshore investment products, and has been tailored to align with Spanish tax law and investment regulations.
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Life firms feel effects as HK investment rules start to bite
By International Adviser 10-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Some life companies with business in Hong Kong
report that they are beginning to feel the effects of
new measures aimed at strengthening the regulations
which govern the sale of investment products.
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Offshore funds queuing up for inclusion in IMA sectors
By International Adviser 09-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
The IMA opened its fund sectors, which classify funds on asset class and strategy, to offshore funds from April 1.
It said a total of 314 submissions have been received from offshore fund providers seeking entry to IMA sectors.
Some 106
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Kotak Mahindra unveils Indian closed-ended debt fund
By International Adviser 06-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Kotak Mahindra is launching an Indian corporate debt fund structured to help foreign investors access the India debt market.
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EFAMA issues wake-up call on retirement plan products
By International Adviser 05-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
A so-called pan-European long-term savings product is needed to help Europe’s ageing population plan for retirement, a gathering of top European funds industry executives, regulators and investors agreed last month.
The issue of long-term
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Dubai FSA loosens rules to lure foreign fund business
By International Adviser 04-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has implemented a number of changes to its investment funds regime to make it
easier for firms based outside the DIFC to launch funds into the jurisdiction.
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Schroders Asian funds embrace zloty
By International Adviser 03-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
Schroders has added a Polish zloty hedged share class to its
Asian Total Return and Asian Convertible Bond funds, based
on expectations that the currency will strengthen against
the dollar and on its positive economic outlook for Poland.
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DeVere has eye on US for fund platform
By International Adviser 02-Aug-2010 08:00 AM
The deVere Group is planning to offer its fund platform to expats in the US and may open offices in New York and Miami to service and advise them
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Warning over QNUPS IHT mitigation
By International Adviser 30-Jul-2010 08:00 AM
The chairman of Guernsey’s QROPS committee has warned investors to be wary of using a QNUPS simply for IHT mitigation
purposes and said IFAs need to fully understand the
implications of the recently introduced schemes.
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Guernsey & Jersey to review corporate tax codes ahead of zero-10 investigation
By International Adviser 29-Jul-2010 08:00 AM
Guernsey and Jersey have issued consultations on their corporate tax codes, ahead of a September review of zero-10 corporate tax regimes by the EU body which monitors tax
compliance.
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Blacktower opens office in Brittany
By International Adviser 28-Jul-2010 09:45 AM
Blacktower, a financial advisory firm with a sizeable presence
in Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and France, has opened an office
in the Brittany city of Nantes, France.
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Frozen pensioners bemoan unfair rules
By International Adviser 28-Jul-2010 08:00 AM
Representatives of more than half a million UK retirees are continuing their fight to have their state pensions linked to inflation like those of pensioners back home, following
a bitter defeat in the European Court of Human Rights in March.
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Philip Story moves to ZIL from FPI
By International Adviser 27-Jul-2010 08:00 AM
Philip Story has been named head of sales in the Middle East for Zurich International Life (ZIL), ending a decade with Friends Provident International, including seven years in the Gulf.
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Wealth firm for female clients opens offices in Abu Dhabi
By International Adviser 26-Jul-2010 03:30 PM
A new wealth management company run mostly by women, which seeks to accommodate the special needs of female clients,
has been launched in Abu Dhabi.
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Sabugueiro to head global business unit for Swiss Life
By International Adviser 23-Jul-2010 10:00 AM
Carlos Sabugueiro, ex-Zurich International Life chief executive for the Middle East and Africa, is to head up a new international
venture for Swiss Life.
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Towers takes his leave of Prudential, Leahy steps up
By International Adviser 22-Jul-2010 02:00 PM
Peter Towers has left Prudential International Assurance (PIA), where he had been managing director, and his duties there are
being assumed by wealth director Michael Leahy.
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Aegon Ireland escapes cuts hitting UK-based business
By International Adviser 21-Jul-2010 08:00 AM
Aegon’s Irish-domiciled international business will not be affected by the 25% cuts being imposed on its UK life and pensions business.
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Collins Stewart purchases private HNW manager ACL
By International Adviser 20-Jul-2010 12:00 PM
Collins Stewart Wealth Management (CSWM) has bought London-based private client wealth management and advisory firm Andersen Charnley (ACL).
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Aberdeen planning Jersey-based Lat Am income fund
By International Adviser 19-Jul-2010 11:00 AM
Aberdeen is set to launch a Latin American Income Fund for managers Devan Kaloo and Brett Diment.
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