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Partners Group Private Equity has entered a managed wind-down after 99.9% of shareholders voted in favour of realising all the assets of the £457m investment company at an extraordinary general meeting yesterday. Just over 62% of shareholders turned out to vote on the resolution to wind down t

Saba Capital has agreed to a one-year standstill with JPMorgan as it backs the rollover of Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies. The New York-based activist investor informed the company that it would vote in favour of the proposal to roll over the assets of Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies into J

Aberdeen Group has sold part of its stake in Standard Life to institutional investors and is reinvesting the proceeds in strengthening its balance sheet.

Maven Capital Partners has launched a new joint share offers to raise up to £20 million across its four Maven Income and Growth Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs). It means that advisers and their clients will be able to access VCTs with a 6% annual dividend target, with each of the four VCTs made

Edinburgh fund manager Walter Scott & Partners has reported a 17% drop in turnover for the 2025 financial year, reflecting a 19% fall in assets under management from £72bn to £58bn. Chair Richard Watt noted that performance “was materially below benchmark levels” and said

Early-career accountants  and finance professionals believe they will depend on AI for future career success, according to a new survey. Findings from accountancy and book keeping platform Intuit QuickBooks, revealed that around 90% said they will be better equipped to use AI compared to future

HSBC is axing jobs at its UK wealth division following a push to reduce costs through the use of artificial intelligence. The lender is currently consulting to changes it wealth management operations as part of the shake-up, which would impact the hundreds of relationship managers and financial advi

Aegon Asset Management has appointed Iain McGowan as its new partnership director. In a new role for the business, McGowan will strengthen and grow relationships across some of Aegon AM’s key UK-based institutional partners. Based in Edinburgh, he will report into Aegon AM’s head of UK c

Aberdein Considine has promoted eleven colleagues Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Newcastle, with its lender, banking and private client teams among those strengthened. Alison Forbes, who has more than 18 years with the firm as lender services UK quality assurance manager has been made an associate director

Scottish Friendly has completed its acquisition of pension and annuity in-payment books of business from Fidelity International. The transaction which was first announced last year, follows receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals. It brings an additional £2.3bn of assets under management

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted it has to be "careful" over proposed changes to the listing rules following the recent campaigns by US activist investor Saba Capital Management. The regulator said it was looking into reforms to help manage conflicts of interest involving activist

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) chair, Ashley Alder, faced calls to resign at the regulator's first public annual meeting in Edinburgh, as whistleblowers and campaigners challenged its decision to let one of its own non-executive directors investigate how it dealt with Simon Andreisz before

The Financial Conduct Authority has launched a probe into the treatment of Epstein whistleblower Simon Andriesz after he took his own life. The British Banker highlighted alleged links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Transparency Task Force co

Wirecard whistleblower Pav Gill has launched a new agentic governance platform bringing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) into one system to end reliance on a "patchwork of disconnected point solutions". Confide will give professionals a shared environment in which to set the standard for how GR

By Corah Franco, private client partner, Thorntons Before the joy of watching children embark on their university journey, and the tears that often accompany the inevitable goodbye, some families may already be considering the next question: whether to invest in more permanent accommodation for thei