By Ian Fraser Financial Times FTfm section May 29th, 2006 Walter Scott & Partners’ top executives tell Ian Fraser why Mellon’s purchase will bring better balance to the boutique Walter Scott & Partners, the global equities house set up by former nuclear physicist Walter Scott and two fellow refugees from Ivory & Sime in 1983, [...]
By Ian Fraser The Herald May 22nd, 2006 GRANT Management, the Edinburgh-based residential property company, has entered into an agreement with Insight Investments, the London-based fund management arm of HBOS, to help put together a £1bn residential property fund. Grant – which specialises in sourcing, renovating, furnishing and managing residential property – launched a £100m [...]
By Ian Fraser The Herald May 18th, 2006 “IF they take me out of here it will be in a box,” said Walter Scott yesterday, vowing to stay with the investment business he had just sold for an estimated several hundred million pounds. The sale of his 70 per cent stake to Pittsburgh-based Mellon Financial [...]
Ian Fraser Sunday Herald May 14th, 2006 BOSS OF THE WEEK: DAVID ANDERSON AS David Anderson talks in the executive suite on the 24th and top storey of the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) Insurance Tower in central Manchester, it is impossible to ignore the steeplejacks working outside the window. Suspended about 300 feet above Dantzic [...]