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Schroder UK Growth board ditches Schroders for Baillie Gifford
The board of the Schroder UK Growth fund is dumping Schroders as its manager and replacing it with Baillie Gifford, citing continuous underperformance since inception as the reason behind the decision.
First Trust launches blockchain ETF
First Trust Global Portfolios has launched what it claims to be Europe’s first blockchain ETF.
PEOPLE MOVES: Abacus, Northern Trust, EY
Abacus makes another hire from Globaleye, Northern Trust bolsters its global family office division and EY names a managing partner for Ireland.
Administrators appointed to The Lifetime Sipp Company
Joint administrators have been appointed to wind down The Lifetime Sipp Company, a Financial Conduct Authority-regulated self invested personal pension scheme administrator based in south-west England.
Insurance linked contracts will ‘not be torn up’ by Brexit
Brexit will not necessarily invalidate insurance linked contracts, according to Lombard International’s associate director of wealth structuring solutions.