Take a bespoke approach to your retirement plans August 12, 2010 WHETHER it is the shift from final salary to defined contribution pension schemes or the growing disillusionment in the financial sector and the costs of traditional pensions, we are all choosing to take more control over our retirement planning. And rather than choosing a one-size-fits-all stakeholder pension, investors are increasingly opting for the made-to-measure self-invested [...]
Izaki buys out Aim listed Atlas Estates June 23, 2010 IZAKI Group, the property firm run by Israeli businessman Ron Izaki, has taken over London and Warsaw-listed Atlas Estates in a deal valuing the Polish investment trust at £265m. Having floated Atlas on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) in 2006 with co-investors Elran Investments and RP Capital, Izaki upped its stake to 94 per cent [...]
Izaki buys out Aim listed Atlas Estates June 23, 2010 IZAKI Group, the property firm run by Israeli businessman Ron Izaki, has taken over London and Warsaw-listed Atlas Estates in a deal valuing the Polish investment trust at £265m. Having floated Atlas on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) in 2006 with co-investors Elran Investments and RP Capital, Izaki upped its stake to 94 per cent [...]
Morocco is attracting the luxury investor November 25, 2010 IT’s hot, it’s exotic and beautiful. No wonder Morocco, long on the traveller’s radar, is rapidly becoming the place that the beautiful people are going to buy their second homes. Says Alistair Emery, CEO of developer Ajensa, which is nearing completion of the Baglioni resort near Marrakech: “In the last few years as people have [...]
House price boom starts to crumble June 28, 2010 HOME prices fell for the first time in more than a year in May, Land Registry data showed yesterday, sparking fears of a second downturn in Britain’s fragile housing market. The average residential property dropped 0.2 per cent in value during the month as uncertainty over austerity measures to be enforced by the incoming government [...]
House price boom starts to crumble June 28, 2010 HOME prices fell for the first time in more than a year in May, Land Registry data showed yesterday, sparking fears of a second downturn in Britain’s fragile housing market. The average residential property dropped 0.2 per cent in value during the month as uncertainty over austerity measures to be enforced by the incoming government [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 17, 2010 Alpha Strategic The hedge fund investment group has appointed Florence Lombard, the former head of the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), as a non-executive director. Lombard, 58, was head of Aima in the UK from 1993 until the end of 2008. She then stayed on as an executive director to focus on the relationship with [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 17, 2010 Alpha Strategic The hedge fund investment group has appointed Florence Lombard, the former head of the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), as a non-executive director. Lombard, 58, was head of Aima in the UK from 1993 until the end of 2008. She then stayed on as an executive director to focus on the relationship with [...]
Pick a moment and hold on for property gains June 30, 2010 WITH the trajectory of the UK real estate market far from clear, property investment might seem like a risky business. But many UK property-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETF) have nonetheless seen steady asset inflows in the last year since prices began to recover in 2009. ETFs offer exposure to property without the long-term commitment of buying [...]
Central London homes hit as summer lull takes a toll October 5, 2010 HOUSE prices in central London fell for the first time in 18 months in the third quarter of the year, the property firm and chartered surveyor Cluttons said yesterday. Prices fell 0.2 per cent, reversing a 0.9 per cent increase in the previous quarter, as demand for property weakened and the number of properties offered [...]