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...“The volume of new investment trust issues has been building all year and seems particularly high right now,” says Gilligan....
...But Mick Gilligan, head of managed portfolio services at Killik, thinks that the recent share price movements suggest the market is expecting a successful outcome for shareholders and a tighter discount...
...Mr Gilligan said it would be up to managers of the bank’s business lines to decide if and when they wanted to roll out the system....
...@DPemb Letter in response to this article By all means buy old cars but expect to lose money / From John Gilligan...
...WH Ireland became Rangers’s so-called “nomad” in December after rival Daniel Stewart relinquished its nomad licence....
...Bain’s hiring comes during a year in which the studio has released a string of box-office flops including After Earth, starring Will Smith, but has scored in television, producing Vince Gilligan’s acclaimed...
...Jon Gilligan, partner at GQ Employment Law, said it would be very difficult for Lloyds Bank to change Sir James’s pension without his voluntary consent. “There is a contractual obligation....
...“This demonstrates that banks are more prepared to use clawbacks and you will see other banks that have been caught up in Libor doing something similar,” said Jon Gilligan, partner at law firm GQ Employment...
...Gavyn Davies, who was ousted as chairman of the BBC governors after the “Gilligan affair” in 2004, and who writes for the FT, said: “If I were chairman, what I’d want to ask now is to do with the management...
...Daniel Nickols – manager of the Old Mutual Asset Managers’ £467m UK Select Smaller Companies fund – insists that, despite gloomy economic data, this can still be a good time to hold UK small caps, as profit...
...But wide discounts to NAV are becoming rare as directors introduce policies to keep them under control, points out Daniel Tunkel, partner at Howard Kennedy solicitors....
...“It is primarily for this reason that passive funds are unlikely to be within our 50 ‘best ideas’,” says head of research Mick Gilligan....
...“I think we’ve all learned that even a zero can go bust,” says Daniel Godfrey, director of the Association of Investment Companies....
...If this had happened in a listed vehicle, the associated discount widening could easily have doubled the loss,” Gilligan warns....
...Fund manager Daniel Briggs and his team aim to identify investment themes that will drive returns over the medium to long term – so Davies believes this fund is a good way of getting geographic diversification...
...In 2001/02 it was split capital trusts [that suffered], this time around it is everything,” said Mick Gilligan, collectives analyst at Killik & Co, a broker....
...“Real estate is trying to find a bottom,” said Mick Gilligan, director of fund research at Killik & Co. While physical values continue to fall, property share prices have already been savaged....
...Daniel Lockyer, a fund of funds manager at Iimia, says that in the last few weeks of 2006, there was evidence of a shift by fund managers towards growth stocks....
...But Daniel Lockyer, fund manager at Iimia, believes it’s worthwhile investing in funds at a premium where he can’t buy the equivalent elsewhere....
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