Best Practice | 1 Sep 16

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Elizabeth Anne Parry from performing any function in relation to any regulated financial activity and fined her £109,400 ($143,419, €128,657) for repeatedly lying about her qualification status.

Companies | 1 Sep 16

Amundi has completed its purchase of an 87.5% stake in Kleinwort Benson Investors (KBI) with the company’s management team acquiring the remaining 12.5%.

Multi Asset | 1 Sep 16

The Wealth Management Association has struck a deal with MSCI to provide a series of indices, replacing FTSE as its indexing partner.

Emerging Markets | 1 Sep 16

Share prices in Qatar have weakened after global index provider FTSE Russell named the 22 Qatari companies that will be included in its Secondary Emerging Market Index, when it upgrades Qatar from ‘Frontier‘ status later this month.

Best Practice | 1 Sep 16

European Union policymakers are considering whether to slash the benchmark used by insurers to calculate the value of billions of euros of liabilities – a move that would push up the cost of life insurance.