Goshawk Asset Management, the global equity boutique launched by Alex Illingworth and Harwood Capital Management, has announced its first deal with the acquisition of Vermeer Investment Management.
BlackRock has agreed to acquire private markets data firm, Preqin, for GBP2.55 billion or approximately USD3.2 billion in cash.
UK-based wealth management companies London & Capital and Waverton have announced that they have reached an agreement to merge their businesses. The firms writes that this strategic move, which is subject to regulatory approval, will bring together the ‘exceptional international advice and planning expertise of London & Capital with the investment performance and wealth solutions of Waverton to create a leading independent wealth management business’.
7IM has announced that Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’) has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in the firm.
Aubrey Capital Management and LarrainVial, one of the largest financial services groups in Chile, have announced that LVCC (the holding company which controls LarrainVial Asset Management), has reached an agreement on the latter acquiring a 25 per cent stake in Aubrey with the deal concluding in the coming days, subject to final reviews by lawyers in the UK and Chile.
Digital asset exchange, Bullish, led by Tom Farley, has announced that it has acquired CoinDesk, the integrated media, events and index platform for the future of finance, from Digital Currency Group (DCG).
Cathie Wood, ARK Invest’s founder and CEO, talks to Institutional Asset Manager’s sister title, ETF Express, about the firm’s recent purchase of the UK’s Rize ETF and its plans to launch more disruptive innovation ETFs in Europe. Read the piece here.
Asset servicing group Waystone has announced that it has completed the transaction to acquire the Irish and UK businesses of Link Fund Solutions (LFS), a division of Link Group, with regulatory approvals and other contractual conditions completed.
TMF Group, a leading provider of compliance and administrative services, has announced the acquisition of Goodbody Fund Management (“GFM”), part of Goodbody Stockbrokers UC (“Goodbody”).
Further to the announcement on 12 April 2021, Columbia Threadneedle Investments (Columbia Threadneedle), part of Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP), has completed the acquisition of Bank of
