Best Practice | 13 Jan 17
Retail investment and robo-advice top SEC’s 2017 priorities
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has put retail investor protection and robo-advice at the centre of its examinations programme for 2017.
Investment | 13 Jan 17
Axa IM launches global ‘robotech’ fund
Axa Investment Managers has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled global fund focussing on robotics and automation systems, following an active, unconstrained, multi-cap, strategy.
Nucleus chairman and Skandia founder Paul Bradshaw dies
Nucleus chairman and Skandia founder Paul Bradshaw has sadly passed away following a cardiac arrest.
PEOPLE MOVES: Axa, James Hambro, Fidelity Int’l
After 10 years with the business, the chief executive of Axa Global Asset Management has announced she is stepping down. James Hambro & Partners has made three senior staff members partners of the business, with Fidelity International handing five multi-asset open range funds to a new portfolio manager.
Jailed 1MDB scandal banker ‘spent $8.2m’ on Australia property
The former BSI banker Yeo Jaiwei, ‘sentenced beyond the norm’ for witness tampering by a Singapore court, used a Seychelles-based company to spend $8.2m (£10m, €7.7m) on Australian Gold Coast property, the Guardian has reported.