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Best Practice | news 17 Apr 18
SJP among firms targeted on diversity
St James’s Place, Provident Financial and several investment trusts are among a raft of FTSE companies the Investment Association has written to demanding an explanation for poor gender balance at executive level or risk a shareholder mutiny.
IFA network partners with The Lang Cat on platform appraisals
Financial services consultancy The Lang Cat has been commissioned by IFA network Sense to provide its members with proposition details and due diligence support for when they are selecting a platform.
Seilern IM adds ‘adviser friendly’ clean share classes
Seilern Investment Management has launched ‘clean’ share classes for three of its Seilern Stryx equity funds, making them “a bit more adviser friendly”, a spokesperson told International Adviser.
OMGI parts ways with Asian equities team
Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) is to hand the management of its two Asian equity funds to the firm’s global equities desk headed by Ian Heslop and part ways with fund manager Josh Crabb and his investment team, International Adviser can reveal.
Deutsche more bullish on China
Financials re-rating, structural changes and deleveraging are behind an increased confidence in DWS’s overweight in China equity, according to the firm’s chief information officer Sean Taylor.