Europe
Aviva bids ‘adios’ to Spain
Aviva has completed its exit from Spain’s life and pensions marketplace after selling its entire shareholdings in its joint venture operations in the region.
Conscience investing ‘does not hinder returns’
Investing with a conscience is fully compatible with generating attractive long term returns, according to Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM).
The privacy risks of cross border investing
What can unite the UK and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Pakistan and India? The answer, as all nerds know, is not football but tax, specifically the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), according to Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth partner Alex Ruffel and solicitor Luke Micallef-Trigona.
Generali to sell majority stake in German life company
Italy’s Generali Group has agreed to sell a majority stake in Generali Leben to a German life insurance portfolio management company, in a deal that values the business at around €1bn (£882m, $1.17bn).
Massive differences uncovered by robo adviser secret shoppers
European robo advice operators have been severely criticised in a report which found fees obscured as well as “inexplicable” portfolio and performance differences.