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...It is “agnostic of location”, one senior insurance figure in the UK said. “[Private equity owners] will pop up in any jurisdiction, they will chance their arm.”...
...In Vanguard’s FTSE Global All Cap Index Fund (which I hold within my own Isa), the UK exposure is below 4 per cent, with the US making up nearly 62 per cent....
...of the Asian and emerging markets equities funds upon which Aberdeen Asset Management made its name....
...Having sorted your “home” fund, you’ll also need one that focuses on the global (ex-UK) markets....
...The stock price wilts on passing its ex-dividend date. Also investors can themselves reinvest the funds. But plenty of investors demur....
...Formed through the merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management in 2017, Abrdn has still lacked the scale required to compete with much larger global rivals while also leaving it vulnerable to the...
...In 2017, Best joined Elliott as the hedge fund sought to build out a private equity strategy....
...And Lex weighed in too, labelling the group — formed by the merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in 2017 — the Frankenstein’s monster of fund management....
...According to data from investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, funds such as Fundsmith Equity, Lindsell Train Global Equity and Rathbone Global Opportunities — growth-focused actively managed funds — featured...
...UK PE group Cinven owned Eurovita and Viridium, a German life consolidator that had a big deal flounder in January on “considerations relating to [its] current ownership structure”....
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...Barings, a subsidiary of US life insurer MassMutual, filed on Monday for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Corinthia Global Management in a North Carolina court....
...Kirkbi, an investment vehicle run by Lego’s founding family, teamed up with private equity group Blackstone and Canadian pension fund CPPIB on the £6bn takeover....
...It also comes as giant funds have tied up a larger share of their assets in illiquid investments such as private equity....
...Meanwhile, the Macquarie global equities ETF is benchmarked against the MSCI World ex-Australia Index and is managed by Walter Scott & Partners, the UK-based equities fund house owned by BNY Mellon Investment...
...“My view is, for sure, on the private equity fund owning [a life insurer], there is not a perfect alignment of interests,” said Cristiano Borean, chief financial officer at Generali....
...His global emerging markets fund is overweight Chinese equities and particularly bullish on the electric vehicle battery production and chipmaking sectors....
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