Bloomberg Steinhoff Africa Retail Ltd. shares fell after Tekkie Town head Bernard Mostert quit alongside fellow senior managers following a legal claim lodged against the retailer by the shoe chain’s founding shareholders. STAR, as Steinhoff Africa is known, has repeatedly said it shouldn’t be held liable for the claim by Tekkie Town founders led by Braam van Huyssteen, which relates …

Bloomberg Hedge funds run by Christopher Hohn and Dinakar Singh accused one of India’s largest real estate developers of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $1.5 billion. “If we do nothing, we will largely bleed dry and get nothing back,” Singh, who heads Axon Capital, said at a gathering in New York of investors in a fund started by …

Bloomberg UK house-price growth has slowed to the weakest pace in five years, while London values are falling, according to Nationwide Building Society. The lender said the “subdued economic activity” and squeezed household budgets are keeping a lid on demand, and the national market is unlikely to see any change to the recent trend in the near term. Nationwide’s monthly …