Nikko Asset Management has appointed Mark de Vries chief risk management officer, with responsibility for risk governance. The role will...

London-based specialist European equities adviser SW Mitchell Capital has hired Hugh Grootenhuis as a specialist adviser. Grootenhuis was recently chief...

About a third of investors are carrying out manager searches for alternative investment mandates, research among consultants indicates. Data provider...

UK asset manager Schroders has reduced its growth forecast for 2016 from 2.6% to 2.4% due to “modest” downgrades in...

IG Group, an online broker, is challenging broker commissions in the UK by offering commission-free dealing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs)....

Morningstar has started rating 20,000 funds by sustainability factors and appointed its Benelux head to lead the initiative. The environmental,...

The Libor scandal has seen the UK financial regulator ban a former Deutsche Bank trader from working in financial services....

World tennis number two, Andy Murray, has made his first investments for 2016 using the equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, which...

Scotland’s Strathclyde Pension Fund has invested in NTR, a Dublin-based renewable energy investor. NTR has raised €85 million from Strathclyde...

Less pressure on profits in the European funds industry due to record assets may have contributed to a slowdown in...