Managers of Wealth Americas

Athena Capital Advisors Expands National Presence with New San Francisco Office

The firm also has an office in New York City.

MetLife To Invest Tax Savings In Employees

It will also create a new $10 million skills development fund to help its employees around the world upgrade their workplace skills.

GCM Grosvenor Closes its Secondary Opportunities Fund II at $700 Million

GSF II will acquire interests in private funds through secondary market transactions, with a focus on transactions of less than $50 million average deal size.

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Canaccord eyes junior gold sector after cannabis and crypto drive record Q3

“You haven’t seen it in the gold price yet, but you can clearly see it in the nature of the activity starting to brew up.”

RMB Asset Management Launches New Global Strategy

The Mendon long/short U.S. financials strategy won an Investors Choice Award in the “Specialist Equity Fund” category for 2016 and 2017.

Magellan acquires US and Australian fund managers

The US manager is Frontier Partners Group, which has operated as Magellan's US distribution partner since 2011. Frontier manages strategies for US institutional clients.

Hub International Acquires The Assets Of Texas-Based IPS Advisors, LLP and IPS RIA, LLC

IPS Advisors' leadership team and staff will join Hub Texas.

Chinese Tycoon Is Said to Near $800 Million U.S. Hotel Purchase

Junson plans purchase of U.S. hotel portfolio from MassMutual

Blackstone's core-plus real estate business reaches $27bn

Its report for the fourth quarter of last year shows that its core-plus assets under management (AUM) rose 91% year on year during the period.

Chubb posts strong earnings

Fourth quarter net income of $1,533 million and core operating income (1) of $1,489 million included a provisional tax benefit of $450 million, or $0.96 per share, related to the 2017 U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Reform) and a one-time expense rel

Finastra acquires Olfa Soft SA

The combined eFX trading solution is already available and will be delivered as a micro-service on the Finastra FusionFabric architecture, adding value for capital markets clients who prefer a cloud-based approach.

Thomson Reuters in talks with Blackstone over $17bn offer

Board to meet on Tuesday to discuss bid by private equity group for 55% of financial and risk arm of corporation

CPPIB to invest $800M in Chinese real estate developments

The CPPIB investment in real estate developments by Longfor is the third of its kind

Aetna quarterly profit soars 75.5 percent

Net income attributable to Aetna rose to $244 million

Stifel Advisor Count Dips But Wealth Profit Soars

The St. Louis-based company ended 2017 with 2,244 brokers in 391 offices, 36 fewer advisors in five fewer locations than at the end of 2016.

PPM America Announces Expansion Plan

Founded 28 years ago, PPM has a well-established and proven track record of serving some of the world’s leading institutional investors through our affiliate network.

Blue Point Capital Partners Closes $700 Million Private Equity Fund

Sixpoint Partners served as exclusive global placement agent

Asset manager of the year: BlackRock

BlackRock delivered some innovative new products and a highly regarded training scheme to build on its already strong foundation in reserve management services

Asset management’s fight for ‘alternative data’ analysts heats up

Asset managers bolster ability to analyse alternative sources such as satellite data

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