News Archive

Farmland prices hit yet another record high during the final six months of 2013, having jumped around fifteen percent in the space of a year, according to the latest RICS/RAU Rural Land Market Survey H2 2013...

New Buy to Let (BTL) listing site, BUY2LET.com, has been established by a group of property professionals to create a portal to enabling estate agents and vendors of residential property investments to reach the national and international buyers market...

On Thursday 27th March 2014, at The Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre, SW11, The London Office and London property agents Douglas & Gordon co-host the annual The Move to the Country Show...

Investors with investments linked to Bernard Madoff have been reminded that the deadline for submitting compensation claims is this Friday, 28th February 2014...

By James Hanning   Choosing shares and investment funds can be a tricky business and making inaccurate financial decisions can greatly damage your returns...

Benjamin Wilson of Bournemouth, Dorset was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court this week for defrauding investors of over £21m, following previous guilty pleas for fraud, forgery and operating a collective investment scheme without authorisation...

ING Investment Management International announced this week that the ING (L) Renta Fund Global High Yield has surpassed the €5 billion mark in assets under management (AUM)...

Smart beta investing, efficient risk diversification, liability driven investment (LDI) strategies, infrastructure and fixed income investing are among the topics to be presented at the EDHEC-Risk Days Europe 2014 conference at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre in Blackfriars, London on March 25-26th...

The High Court has ruled that two investment schemes, promoted by Capital Alternatives and a number of other firms, were collective investment schemes...

Abundance Generation, the FCA-regulated crowdfunding platform, has this week launched its latest renewable energy investment project...

True Potential Investments has added four Threadneedle Income Strategies to its Wealth Platform, featuring an exclusive price cap...

Investment Manager at Baring Asset Management, Michael Levy, has outlined an outlook for frontier markets:    There are several areas in frontier markets which, we think, will provide opportunities...

Over £165 billion of assets invested in pensions and other large funds are transferred between investment managers, markets and products every year by 13 specialist transition management (TM) providers...

National Institute Economic Review for February 2014 has revealed the following:   The UK’s economic recovery has become entrenched...

After a strong year for UK shares, the Lloyds Bank Private Banking Investor Sentiment Index survey shows private investor confidence in UK shares asset class has remained high, but there has also been a small flight to safety away from Japan and Emerging Markets...

The long-established Central England Business Angels is to rebrand as Oxygen Investors, reflecting its move from a traditional investment network focused solely on raising equity funding from a group of high net worth individuals, to a broader funding model...

The FCA has developed a webcast of the material presented at last year’s Mortgage Market Review (MMR) workshops...

Defaqto, an independent researcher of financial products, has launched the 2014 Diamond Ratings and Star Ratings, which provide an unbiased, whole-of-market assessment of the quality of financial propositions – including a wide range of advised product areas as well as funds and fund families...

A new report from Juniper Research has found that annual revenues from mobile augmented reality (AR) services and applications will reach 1...

Former retail investment adviser, Ewan King, has been fined £19,900 and banned by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)from undertaking any regulated activity, after it was discovered that he had fabricated Statements of Professional Standing...