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Schroders Investment Management launches gold shares fund
June 30th, 2016
Schroders Investment Management has launched a gold equities fund. The Schroders ISF Global Gold fund will be managed by James Luke and Mark Lacey, who are members of Schroders’ commodities team. Luke is a precious metals analyst and has over ...
KPMG hires new partner for investment advisory team in UK
June 20th, 2017
KPMG has appointed Pat Race as a partner in its pension investment advisory team. In his role, Race will work with KPMG investment advisory and trustee services partner Nick Evans and his team in the firm’s London office. The ...
BTIG Strengthens Fixed Income Credit Group
March 1st, 2017
BTIG, LLC announced today that John Agnew, Drew Hall and Evan Jones, CFA have joined the firm within BTIG’s Fixed Income Credit Group. Mr. Agnew, Mr. Hall and Mr. Jones will be based in New York, reporting into Drew ...
Saxo Bank to cut jobs in the digital age
January 26th, 2017
Announcement comes just days after Davos business leaders warned of the threat to white-collar jobs Saxo Bank, a Danish bank that specialises in online trading, is cutting jobs in a drive to “digitise” and “streamline” its business – just ...
Why a multinational law firm has stopped paying some of its staff?
January 5th, 2017
KWM Europe halts pay for 100 staff as it prepares for administration Today (4 January) the European partnership of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has stopped paying 100 staff as the firm heads towards administration. The firm confirmed its ...
Deloitte scoops GSK ‘mega audit’ from PwC
December 16th, 2016
Another hugely lucrative audit is set to change hands. Pharmaceutical giant GSK is moving its audit work to Deloitte after PwC’s 15-year reign. Deloitte will become the audit firm for the year ending 31 December 2018. The GSK audit is ...
Investors are pushing into Emerging-market stocks; 20% rise over the past six months
August 29th, 2016
China’s economy is inexorably slowing. Turkey’s sprawling post-coup purge continues apace. Western sanctions against Russia will remain in force for as long as Moscow keeps meddling in Ukraine. Brazil’s brief Olympic distraction is over, so it’s back to the business of dealing with acrippling recession and wrenching ...
Former equities trader sentenced for insider dealing
June 15th, 2016
Damian Clarke, a former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management has today been sentenced to two years imprisonment having pleaded guilty to nine counts of insider dealing. Between August 2000 and January 2013, Mr Clarke was employed initially as ...
Former equities trader pleads guilty to insider dealing
March 16th, 2016
Damian Clarke, a former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management Limited, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to nine counts of insider trading. He will be sentenced on 13 June 2016. Mr Clarke pleaded guilty to seven counts of ...
Five UK Fund Giants Partner up to Join the Blockchain Bandwagon
February 9th, 2016
In a recurring theme to confirm the financial industry’s collective fawning of blockchain technology – the distributed ledger that underpins Bitcoin – five of the UK’s biggest mutual fund giants are collectively exploring blockchain applications. The motivation? Cutting billions ...
