LONDON— Henderson Group PLC agreed to acquire U.S. rival Janus Capital Group Inc. for about £2.01 billion ($2.59 billion) as the two active management firms look to cut costs in the face of pressure from low cost fund providers like BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group. The planned
Read more →Barclays Wealth is the first UK Wealth and Investment Management Brand whose ‘Own’ Social Media assets now exceed one million pounds. The Brand achieved this significant milestone toward the end of the 2013 year. Fidelity UK have the second most valuable portfolio of Own Social Media Assets,
Read more →August to October saw another quarter of significant growth with 48,000 activity/ mentions (a 17% increase vs the previous quarter) across the cohort of wealth management Brands included in this research. Wider UK industry activity/mentions grew by 8% for the quarter (off a much larger sample base
Read more →The latest Pridham report shows Artemis and Henderson have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the renewed interest in equity funds. The report comes on the back of recent Investment Management Association figures, which showed equity funds produced net sales of £8 billion in the first nine
Read more →Jupiter has hired former HSBC and Henderson man Richard Wilson as head of marketing. Wilson, who joins Jupiter during November, will have responsibility for the fund group’s global marketing strategy. He most recently worked at HSBC Global Asset Management and has previously held similar roles at Henderson Global
Read more →Ian Pascal is replacing Rob Page, who will leave the company in July for Henderson Global Investors. Based at the London headquarters, Pascal will report to Harriet Steel, global head of business development and lead Hermes’ global institutional and wholesale marketing strategy and will head all corporate
Read more →Henderson has named former New Star man Rob Page as its new global head of marketing. Page, who joins from Hermes Fund Managers, will report to Henderson head of EMEA retail Greg Jones. He will oversee Henderson’s UK and European marketing, investment marketing, press relations and e-commerce
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Read more →Earlier this month Fishtank released our most recent ‘Social Media Intelligence – Retail Distribution Review (RDR) UK’ Report covering the months of November, December and January 2013. Findings from the current quarters research continue to confirm that relevance of Social Media across the industry, and the increasing
Read more →Henderson Global Investors has sought to strengthen its presence in the Asian market by naming a new CEO for its Japanese operations. PIMCO’s former head of operations for the Asia Pacific region, Shiro Tsubota, has taken over from current CEO Takashi Muramatsu. Muramatsu, who has taken an executive
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