Supermarket Income REIT slashes fees for shareholders November 5, 2024 Supermarket Income REIT has slashed its fees in a bid to align management’s interest with shareholders. The trust will now charge fees based on its stock price rather than on underlying assets. Since the trust trades 21 per cent below the value of its underlying assets, fees will drop by around 20 per cent, according [...]
Schroders shares plummet after investors pull £2.3bn November 5, 2024 Schroders, one of the largest asset managers in the UK, has reported a jump in outflows over the last quarter, sending its stock price plummeting more than 14 per cent this morning.
Weir Group equipment orders surge as cost-cutting continues November 5, 2024 Mining specialist Weir Group saw group original equipment orders rise 15 per cent in the quarter, with the first positive original equipment orders growth since the first quarter of last year. The FTSE 100 firm’s cost-cutting programme is progressing at pace, with £19m of cumulative savings brought in so far, it said in a quarterly trading [...]
TP ICAP: Revenue jumps to record November 5, 2024 Inter-dealer broker TP ICAP has reported a ten per cent bump in revenue for the three months ended 30 September 2024. Overall group revenue for the period was £557m. Rates, its largest and most profitable trading division, reported a 14 per cent jump in reported currency terms. Liquidnet, the firm’s institutional investment network, reported a [...]
Terry Smith’s £23bn fund falls out of favour after Magnificent Seven misstep November 5, 2024 Terry Smith’s £23bn equity fund has once again fallen off a list of the UK’s most-bought investment vehicles after failing to cash in on the performance of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ tech stocks, new analysis suggests. The Magnificent Seven refers to a group of US tech giants, including Alphabet, Meta and Nividia, that have seen stratospheric [...]
City holds off on big bets ahead of knife-edge US election November 4, 2024 City of London traders are refraining from big bets on US government debt and the dollar as the US election enters its final days on a knife edge, analysts have told City AM. With the last election taking four days to call, and polls suggesting Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck and neck heading [...]
Star stockpicker Richard Penny ditches asset manager November 4, 2024 Star stockpicker Richard Penny has ditched his asset manager Lansdowne Partners to move to Oberon Investments Group. Penny and his investment team will join Oberon while continuing to manage the £28m CRUX UK Special Situations, the £21m CRUX UK Core and the £7m CRUX UK Smaller Companies funds. Oberon, a little known name in the [...]
UK fund withdrawals reach largest on record amid Budget panic November 4, 2024 UK equity fund withdrawals reached their largest on record in October as investors pulled billions out of markets to escape tax rises in the Budget. Investors sold a £2.7bn stake in funds throughout the month in anticipation of Chancellor Rachel Reeves hiking capital gains tax, up from £564m of withdrawals in September, according to data [...]
US reports worst jobs growth since December 2020 November 1, 2024 The US has reported its worst jobs growth since December 2020, as only 12,000 new jobs were added to the economy during September. This was significantly below the 113,000 forecast by analysts, leaving economists describing the numbers as “weak”. However, unemployment held steady at 4.1 per cent, while average hourly earnings rose 0.4 per cent [...]
Wirecard critics shut down hedge fund November 1, 2024 A hedge fund run by the analysts that spotted potential fraud at German payments firm Wirecard years before its collapse have closed their fund due to its small size, City AM can reveal. Neil Campling and Toby Clothier, founders and managers of the Chameleon Global Master fund, have returned cash to investors and closed the [...]
