State-controlled Allied Irish Bank is selling its subsidiary AIB Investment Managers to Prescient Holdings, FundWeb reports. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.

The transaction, awaiting regulatory approval, is scheduled to complete during the first quarter of 2012. Prescient Holdings is a South African financial services company a number of Irish-domiciled funds.

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