Asset Management
JPMorgan funds boss: Global turmoil is pushing investors towards Europe
Patrick Thomson, who leads JPMorgan’s Emea asset management business, says policy stability is drawing flows
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L&G acquires real estate group Proprium to fuel private markets push
Deal is the latest for the UK asset manager amid plan to grow private markets assets to £85bn
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Index providers fight over $6.4bn business: ‘We want our fair share’
Investors are rushing to low-cost index trackers, making benchmarking the world’s assets a valuable business. Now challengers want a piece of the action
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Investment Association picks Folgate Building for new headquarters
Fund management trade body will move to its new office in September
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UK’s £1.4m investment summit bill, and why fund groups aren’t budging on WFH
All the week’s asset management news in one place
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Revealed: Government spent more than £1m on one day investment summit
The flagship event held in London’s Guildhall last October attracted business leaders from around the world, but racked up a significant bill
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Ex-Fidelity star Anthony Bolton deepfaked in video targeting retail investors
The former top fund manager features in an AI generated video encouraging investors to join a stock-picking WhatsApp group
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Pension funds urged to back UK stocks: ‘Mandation is a scary word’
Brokers calls for pension funds to allocate more assets to UK equities
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Man Group targets growth in US wealth market
The UK-listed group has recently bolstered headcount in the US, ready to target wealthy clients
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Trading Places: Hires for Citi, UBS and Paul Hastings
Find out who is on the move in the City and beyond this week
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City fund groups stick with hybrid work after BlackRock calls back senior staff full time
Most asset managers are maintaining policies that require staff to be in the office at least three days a week
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Aviva Investors’ AI push, and BlackRock orders staff back to office five days a week
All this week’s asset management news in one place
BlackRock orders managing directors back to office five days a week
Move comes after US asset manager tightened its working from home policy in 2023
Aviva Investors creates investment engineering team to assist AI push
New team is leading development of an in-house tool dubbed OptiFI, which will be used by the asset manager’s fixed income division
Pimco hires former BlackRock fund manager Rupert Harrison as senior UK adviser
Harrison has joined California-headquartered bond giant to advise on macroeconomic and policy matters
RLAM’s slow private markets push, and why DWS clients are ‘repatriating’ investments to Europe
All this week’s asset management news in one place
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Jupiter kicks off hunt for new chair
Chair of fund management group to step down later this year
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Inside RLAM’s private markets push: ‘We’re not trying to build a monster’
RLAM’s head of private markets says London-based group has time on its side compared to larger competitors
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Aberdeen blames single Phoenix mandate for £5.2bn outflows in first quarter
The results come after Aberdeen said at the start of March that it was ditching the much-derided Abrdn brand
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DWS chief says US tariffs have prompted ‘repatriation’ of client assets to Europe
Stefan Hoops says asset manager is in ‘a strong position’ to benefit from the shift of capital from US to Europe
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