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Some takeovers of U.K. companies arouse little attention. Others, like the £11.5-billion takeover of Cadbury by Kraft in 2010, stir emotions even many years later.
To judge from the initial response, it feels as if the £9.9-billion acquisition of the asset manager Schroders
by Nuveen, announced last week, will be one of the latter.
The U.K. capital’s reputation as a financial powerhouse is in question.
Ian King takes a look at why the real estate investment trust sector has seen a spate of takeovers in the last couple of years.
The investment trust sector in the U.K. is being targeted by one of Wall Street’s most famous activist investors — putting some…
The takeover of Schroders by a bigger US rival may be the death knell for London’s financial status
The government wants pension providers to invest 10% of their workplace portfolios in private markets by 2030, with at least 5%…
Smiths Group, the FTSE-100 engineering conglomerate, announced that it would be demerging or selling some of its companies,…
