Melrose Chairman invests 6.6m pounds through share purchase
27th Jun 2013 15:51
Industrial investment conglomerate Melrose saw its long-running Chairman invest over six and a half millions pounds in the company this week. Harris & Sheldon Investments, an investment company connected with Executive Chairman Christopher Miller, purchased 2.76m shares through three transactions b
Read moreThursday broker round-up UPDATE
20th Jun 2013 08:43
Ashtead Group: Jefferies takes target price from 690p to 750p and leaves its buy recommendation unchanged. ASOS: Deutsche Bank increases target price from 3300p to 3800p and reiterates a hold recommendation. Atkins: Liberum Capital takes target price from 1020p to 1100p and maintains a buy recomme
Read moreWednesday broker round-up UPDATE
16th Jan 2013 07:16
Anglo American: Goldman Sachs reduces target price from 1650p to 1500p and reiterates its sell recommendation. Antofagasta: Goldman Sachs ups target price from 1100p to 1120p and still recommends to sell. ARM Holdings: UBS increases target price from 750p to 900p, while downgrading to neutral. As
Read moreMonday broker round-up UPDATE
14th Jan 2013 06:57
Aberdeen Asset Management: JP Morgan ups target price from 414p to 479p and retains an overweight rating. HSBC downgrades to neutral. Aggreko: UBS cuts target price from 2350p to 2250p maintaining a buy rating. ARM Holdings: Piper Jaffray downgrade to neutral. Ashmore Group: JP Morgan shifts ta
Read moreThursday Broker round-up UPDATE
15th Nov 2012 07:21
AMEC: Nomura raises target price from 1240p to 1340p, buy rating remains unchanged. Barclays Capital reduces target price from 1350p to 1320p, underweight rating kept. Atkins (WS): Investec reduces target price from 727p to 700p, hold recommendation maintained. Barr AG: UBS raises target price fro
Read moreASOS director reduces stake
25th Jun 2012 13:18
Robert Bready, the Product Director of ASOS, the online clothes retailer, has slimmed down his stake in the firm with the sale of 44,299 shares. The transaction, which was carried out on Monday, earned Bready £724,289 and reduced his holding to 143,125 ordinary shares, equal to 0.18% of the total
Read moreThursday tips round-up: Weir, Rio Tinto, Liontrust
21st Jun 2012 07:12
The Tempus column in the Times looks at engineering group Weir, whose shares have been in a sharp decline since peaking at 2,200p in February as the market began to doubt its exposure to shale. 'Much of the short-selling was by dealers who were expecting the slowdown in shale to mean these [profit f
Read moreCSC deputy goes on a shopping trip
15th Nov 2011 16:27
John Whittaker, deputy chairman of Capital Shopping Centres Group, owner of the Trafford Centre, has done a spot of shopping himself. Whittaker, who is also a non-executive of the firm, purchased 50,000 shares at 310.60p per share for a total of £155,300. He joined the firm in January, as part o
Read moreLiontrust bosses pick up shares
2nd Aug 2011 14:37
Bosses at Liontrust Asset Management have been on the hunt for shares in the company. Chief executive John Ions took 250,000 shares at 74.72p a time and now has 268,301, or about 0.75% of the company. Chief financial officer Vinay Abrol took 65,000 at the same price and now has 655,756. Liontrust
Read moreLiontrust feeling positive
2nd Feb 2011 15:34
Fund manager Liontrust Asset Management saw assets under management at the end of 2010 rise 14.6% to £1,292m from the end-September level. As at 1 February, assets under management stood at £1,307m. The company saw positive net sales of £76m, the second quarter in a row that net sales had been pos
Read moreUPDATE: Liontrust Asset Management Closes Global Equities Team
1st Jul 2010 14:12
(Adds interview, share price.) By Razak Musah Baba Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Liontrust Asset Management PLC (LIO.LN) said Thursday it is closing its Global Equities team with immediate effect as part of its review into increasing profitability and implementing a more f
Read moreLiontrust Asset Management To Close Global Equities Team
1st Jul 2010 10:43
Liontrust Asset Management PLC (LIO.LN), an independent fund management group, said Thursday it has decided to close its Global equities team with immediate effect, and said it has also been making changes on the distribution side of the business. MAIN FACTS: -The Global Equities team are on
Read moreSmall caps round-up: African Aura, Liontrust, Cyan...
16th Jun 2010 11:31
African Aura Mining's New Liberty gold deposit in western Liberia is estimated to contain a measured and indicated resource of 1.38m ounces of gold at a grade of 3.18 grammes per tonne. "The holes being announced today, which conclude the results from the initial drilling campaign, have returned so
Read moreLiontrust Asset Mgmt FY Pre-Items, Pre-Tax Pft GBP0.77M
16th Jun 2010 07:20
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Liontrust Asset Management PLC (LIO.LN), an independent specialist fund management group, announced Wednesday it made an adjusted pretax profit of GBP0.77 million for the year ended March 31, compared with GBP14.3 million. MAIN FACTS: -Pretax Loss: GBP1.01 million) (2009:
Read moreLiontrust executives buy following trading update
25th Mar 2010 16:54
Liontrust Asset Management's two executive directors have added to their shareholdings following the release of a trading statement for the year to March 2010. Chief executive Nigel Legge and chief operating officer and finance director Vinay Abrol each bought 180,039 shares at 105p a share. Legge
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