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  • Comment: Will Japan's FSA succeed where hedge fund activists once failed?

    22 February 2024

    Japan's financial regulator is unpicking a web of shareholdings once decried, in vain, by a UK hedgie

  • Abrdn and Phoenix Group invest in UK student housing project

    21 February 2024

    West Slope scheme will be built on University of Sussex campus

  • CDPQ invests $92m in tech consultancy firm Levio

    21 February 2024

    Money will be used to support acquisition strategy

  • Will AI "obey" insurance investors, or "shall [regulator] be forced to disconnect"

    21 February 2024

    An Investec survey at the end of 2023 found that over 50% of systematic investors are using AI in their investing processes, but how are insurers and their asset managers using the technology today and how do they expect it to influence them in the future?

  • Just Group completes £11m buy-in with Spar UK pension fund

    21 February 2024

    Preparatory work included GMP equalisation

  • RLAM Property partners with Graftongate to buy industrial site

    21 February 2024

    Abbey Works has been sold by aerospace business Eaton

  • 'Great foreign-FX sell-off' misfires among Japan's insurers in 2023

    20 February 2024

    Asset management solvency-risk amounts rise by 17% from March to December

  • Schroders launches global equity impact fund

    20 February 2024

    Targeting companies across sectors focused on solving societal and environmental challenges

  • Amundi launches global short term bond fund

    20 February 2024

    Manager expects yields to stay above historical averages for prolonged period

  • LGIM shifts UK property fund focus to include REITs

    20 February 2024

    Proposes blended strategy that also retains direct property focus