Property funds seem overnight to have become the least popular asset class at the dance, but many investors have been sneaking out early for some time and not all of them have gone straight home.
The only thing markets like less than uncertainty is panic. Long lines of people clamouring to get their money out of an investment is never a good image.
Aviva is the latest fund manager to announce it has suspended trading in the £1.8bn Aviva Investors Property trust.
Morgan Stanley has launched a factor-based US fund providing European investors access to its applied equity advisers team for the first time.
Standard Life Investments has suspended all trading in its UK Real Estate Fund following an increase in redemption requests.
Cazenove Capital has launched a range of six, risk-rated model portfolios in a bid to expand its service offering to the IFA community.
AXA Investment Managers has launched an inflation-focused, short duration bond fund
While gold funds were the out and out winners of the first half of the year, the worst performers were much more of a mixed bag.
The news that Franklin Templeton has cut the fees on three of its UK equity funds to 45 basis points prompted a number of questions.
A look at some of the highlights from PA Summer Congress.
A number of commentators have sought to reassure investors that the events of last week were not ‘a Lehman moment’.
Despite worries that current market stress could result in significant outflows from emerging markets in the short term, for Neuberger Berman’s fixed income CIO, Brad Tank, emerging market debt remains a fantastic place to invest over the longer term.
