Manager of the Swip European Real Estate fund expects a bounce in UK returns on the back of the continent’s good run

Natixis Asset Management says regulators will have ‘wheelbarrows’ full of documents to sort out once Ucits IV becomes law in July 2011

The 1.1m sq ft office campus in West London will be sold for £450m after the vehicle that holds the properties on behalf of a group of UK and Canadian pension funds expired

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company run by Warren Buffett, posted lower third-quarter profits, after it took non-cash losses related to certain derivatives contracts

David Wormsley, the Citigroup investment banker who just won a bitter courtroom battle with Terra Firma’s Guy Hands, speaks for the first time about the trial

Next test of its ability to meet covenants in its £3bn of loans from Citigroup comes up at the end of March

Defeat in a New York court puts the once-ebullient Guy Hands on the back foot. But the Terra Firma boss still has his core investment skill and €2.4bn of the buy-out group’s current fund to deploy

Chief’s remarks come even though the group said it had seen new client funds rise to a two-year high

Ana Patricia Botín, daughter of Emilio Botín, Santander’s veteran executive chairman, is regarded as the heiress apparent who will run the eurozone’s biggest banking group by market capitalisation when her father finally retires

António Horta-Osório, the head of Santander’s UK business, is to take over from Eric Daniels as chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group in March 2011