Standard Life

People Moves | 12 Apr 16

The UK and Qatari regulators have made senior appointments, while Standard Life Wealth has split its head of business management role in two. Bordier & Cie have poached a senior planner from Aspinalls and are venturing into wealth planning, while Baring AM has appointed a new director.

Global Equities Hub | 12 Apr 16

UK investors have historically shunned offshore funds as being vehicles for tax avoidance, existing in an alternative regulatory regime, or simply for being unavailable – but today, all of that has changed.

Companies | 5 Apr 16

Standard Life’s 1825 has announced its third acquisition in three weeks after agreeing to buy London-based IFA Baigre Davies – shortly after confirming the purchase of Scottish wealth management advice business Munro Partnership and Norwich-based Almary Green.

Global Equities Hub | 5 Apr 16

Following the global financial crisis, interest rates and bond yields saw investors broaden their demand for income by increasingly turning to equities – yet these same investors are reticent to broaden their equity search beyond their domestic market.

People Moves | 31 Mar 16

Friends Provident International has appointed a chief marketing officer for MEA, while Manulife have named a head of distribution EMEA. A Schroders fund manager is stepping down and a reorganisation at Franklin Templeton will see one fund manager stepping back from his day-to-day management role.