Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) is partnering with French academic institute HEC Paris to offer asset management education through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course will launch in April 2016 and is open to all.
Board and senior appointments were the name of the game this week with Momentum Pensions and Brown Advisory adding to their boards, while Old Mutual International and Sun Life were among those announcing changes at senior levels.
Axa Investment Managers plans to launch a UK multi-cap fund accessible to international investors and managed by Chris St John, who has a successful track record of running small and mid-cap funds.
Isle of Man-based Axa Wealth International has surfaced again as a potential candidate for sale following reports that the French-headquartered parent company has hired two advisers in the City of London to offload key operations in the UK.
Axa Investment Managers has taken on Simon Weston as its senior equity fund manager for its Hong Kong office as it sets its sights on expanding the business around the world.
Axa Wealth is to close 115 mirrored third party funds within its stand-alone pensions book.
The global arm of Axa Wealth has experienced slower growth in new sales between the second and third quarter of this year, hampered slightly by an “unsettled advisory market”.
A former Axa investment manager has joined Finisterre Capital to spearhead its newly-established emerging market debt strategy.
Dutch insurance giant Aegon is looking to sell its annuity business in the UK, following on from a move by the French insurer Axa to offload its British business, as international insurers react to the changing regulatory environment.
Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has appointed Laurent Clavel as a senior international economist within its research and investment strategy team led by Eric Chaney.
French insurer Axa Group may be looking to sell off all of its UK businesses, including Axa Wealth, according to British media reports.
Individuals receiving a significant dividend income and those using family companies to get money via corporate disbursements could be facing a surprise hit from the UK government’s new dividend tax plan, according to legal experts.
