It is clear BlackRock has big plans for its UK Income Fund. While it is only £322m in size, the portfolio has three experienced fund managers looking after it, as well as the resources of its broader UK equities team to help with idea generation.
Hawksmoor Investment Management has separated its fund and private client management arms in an effort to better promote its fund management capability.
If markets find the intentions of the US Federal Reserve difficult to follow, reading the intentions of China’s main policy makers is a whole different ball game.
The challenges faced by EM-focused asset managers focused were underlined on Thursday by the sharp difference in results.
The events now unfolding in China, including a renminbi devaluation, will result in global deflation and a recession, says Societe Generale strategist Albert Edwards.
Gravis Capital Partners has announced the launch of the first UK-focused open-ended infrastructure fund.
BlackRock has announced a number of senior leadership changes aimed at, among other things: globalising its fixed income business, unifying its active equities strategies under one head and increasing the focus multi-asset strategies.
The pace of global dividend growth is set to almost halve in 2016, the latest Markit global dividend forecast reveals.
Aberdeen Asset Management’s acquisition of Parmenion Capital partners and its sister company, Self Directed Holdings is now complete, the firm announced on Tuesday.
After a spectacularly dismal start to the year last week, all eyes turn this week to the start of corporate earnings season.
Anyone hoping for a quiet start to 2016 was pretty disappointed by mid-morning on Monday.
Stephen Ford, head of wealth and investment management at Brewin Dolphin has left the firm after 15 years following a significant management shake-up.
