Analysis

Companies | analysis 16 Feb 18

Standard Life Aberdeen has lost its biggest client, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), after the FTSE 100 bank decided to pull more than £100bn assets over competition concerns.

Companies | analysis 15 Feb 18

More than £1bn of retail money flowed into ethical funds in 2017, representing the highest annual level of sales for this type of fund ever, but the sector’s progression is stifled by an identity crisis.

Asia | analysis 15 Feb 18

Global asset managers are expected to hold 25% of China’s mutual fund industry assets within a decade, due to regulatory changes and the competitiveness of the foreign firms, according to Shanghai-based consultancy firm Z-Ben Advisors.

Best Practice | analysis 14 Feb 18

The Fry Group has revealed its new managing director and chairman from 1 April is to be Jeremy Woodley, its long-standing sales and marketing director, who is intent on accelerating plans for further offices across the world.

Companies | analysis 14 Feb 18

Itaconix and RM2 International, two small-cap firms that are majority owned by Neil Woodford, have reported cash troubles in their latest trading updates. Elsewhere, the heavyweight UK manager has doubled his exposure to builder Crest Nicholson.