A Non-Executive Director of 3i, a private equity, infrastructure and debt management group, has taken advantage of the company's declining share price to buy up 100,000 shares.
Willem Mesdag, who joined the firm in 2007, bought the shares at 175p a pop for a total of £175,000.
Two weeks ago the company more than doubled its full-year dividend to 8.1p despite seeing returns and assets under management (AUM) slip during the year to March 31st.
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Total AUM dropped from £12.7bn to £10.5bn during what the company described as a "challenging" year which saw the performance in Private Equity being offset by a continued drag on returns from pre-credit crisis investments and the value of its largest Asia asset, reinsurance business ACR, affected by natural disasters.
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