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Schroders, Lloyds mull wealth venture

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... between the companies, with Schroders taking on a £109bn ($201.5bn) investment management contract from Lloyds-owned Scottish Widows, Sky News said. Schroders declined to provide additional information but said further announcements will be made when ...

Pendal builds global executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... Aviva Investors' global chief risk officer, and was also the director of legal and risk at Aberdeen-acquired manager Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. In his new role, Savjani will report to Pendal's group chief executive Emilio Gonzalez. "I am ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
A Scottish manager is offering a new ESG fixed income fund to institutional investors in Australia, beginning with $135 million in assets under management. The Cameron Hume Global Fixed Income ESG Fund will hold securities from issuers that the specialist ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... the principle states that the Government should not interfere with the laws that govern market and economic dynamics. Scottish economist Adam Smith termed this, the "invisible hand" of Government. Trump's trade protectionism has exacerbated this ...

Australian Unity Trustees signs tech partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Bravura's wealth management platform Sonata has also won a number of mandates in recent months including from the Scottish Friendly Assurance Society, ASB Bank and Commonwealth Super.

Bell AM recruits senior global equities analyst

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... Millinium Capital Managers, where he spent two years as an investment manager. Before that, he was an investment analyst at Scottish Widows and a director at Western Rosella Farming. He was also a senior investment analyst at Global Value Investors and ...

SMEs shun banks, turn to fintechs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... sentiment index shows. The proportion of SMEs planning to use banks dropped from 38% to 24% between 2014 and 2018, the Scottish Pacific SME Growth Index shows. It is recalculated every six months. About half (47.6%) of the 1253 small-to-medium business ...

Pension fund and bank terminate asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... fund and its parent bank have terminated about $200 billion in respective mandates with a major global asset manager. Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group's wealth businesses have given Standard Life Aberdeen notice to terminate their partnership ...

Bravura inks major international deal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... Discovery Limited for the implementation of Sonata in November, an agreement with $4.7 billion Scotland-based insurer the Scottish Friendly Assurance Society in July for the same implementation, a long-term agreement South African-based STANLIB Wealth ...

Bravura inks deal with $4.7bn insurer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... global expansion plans have been given an upgrade with a mandate from one of the UK's largest mutual life insurers. The Scottish Friendly Assurance Society (Scottish Friendly), established in 1862 and with about $4.7 billion in assets under management ...