Best Practice | 17 Apr 18

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.

Companies | 13 Apr 18

The board of the Schroder UK Growth fund is dumping Schroders as its manager and replacing it with Baillie Gifford, citing continuous underperformance since inception as the reason behind the decision.

Investment | 10 Apr 18

Multi-managers are shunning UK commercial property funds in favour of absolute return vehicles to avoid correlation with equities and fixed income, and improve portfolio liquidity.

Companies | 10 Apr 18

Zurich has sold its 25% stake in Openwork two years earlier than expected, handing majority ownership to the IFA network’s partners.

Companies | 29 Mar 18

The Financial Conduct Authority is to investigate insurance giant Aviva over whether its plan to cancel preference shares was market abuse.