DFM firm Portfoliometrix launches in Ireland
Discretionary fund management firm Portfoliometrix has launched in Ireland, with an office in Dublin.
Discretionary fund management firm Portfoliometrix has launched in Ireland, with an office in Dublin.
Dublin-based asset manager Kleinwort Benson Investors has opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of a key strategic move to grow its business in North America.
UBS Hedge Fund Solutions, a unit of Swiss bank UBS, has become the first investment manager to re-domicile a Cayman Island fund in Ireland under the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) legislation.
Sanditon Asset Management is to launch an offshore mirror of Julie Dean’s UK Fund, through a Dublin ICAV structure.
Old Mutual Global Investors has expanded its fund range by adding the North American Equity and the Europe (ex UK) Smaller Companies strategies to its shelf.
On 1 July 2015, Canada Life completed its acquisition of Legal & General International Ireland (LGII), Sean Christian, the company’s executive director – offshore and managing director of Canada Life International – talks about the background to the deal and the opportunities it brings.
Barry Cudmore, managing director of guarantees specialist Aegon Ireland, is a driving force in the development of unit-linked solutions, and sees the recent UK pension changes as a game changer.
London-headquartered Thomas Miller Investment has unveiled two Dublin-domiciled bond funds as it looks to grow its collective investment funds business.
The Ireland-domiciled India Dynamic Equity Fund is aimed at institutional investors who wish to access India’s equity market.
The net value of investment funds domiciled in Ireland is set to top €2trn (£1.45trn, $2.25trn) after a 14% rise of €234bn in the first quarter of 2015, Irish Funds Industry Association chief executive Pat Lardner said.
It is easier to manage money in a framework you know rather than in a possible framework that might be imposed at some point in the future. Perhaps. So how are the more sophisticated of Ireland’s wealth managers coping with the spectre of RDR looming? Perhaps…