Brooks Macdonald has picked international equity funds such as the Morgan Stanley Global Brands Fund and M&G Global Dividend Fund to help portfolio performance in current volatile markets, rotating its sector buylists in the process.
Henderson Global Investors plans to build a fund management business in Australia and has appointed former First State Investment UK chief executive Rob Adams to lead the new venture.
Mark Harris argues that if the US succeeds in becoming a net energy exporter, thereby reducing its reliance on supplies from the Middle East, it will have a wide and profound economic, political and investment impact.
Man Group is to acquire hedge fund research and investment specialist FRM, which has funds under management of approximately $8bn.
Martin Currie has opened Ucits IV-compliant version of its Asia Long Term Unconstrained strategy (ALTU) to investors.
The problem with a deadline is that too many people think of it as the end of a task, when all too often it is only the beginning.
Rating agency Moody’s downgraded the debt of 16 Spanish banks last night as it questioned the government’s ability to support its lenders in the face of its own escalating borrowing costs.
Chris Iggo looks at recent election results in Europe and asks whether the changes in leadership show that austerity may not be the way to resolve the region’s debt crisis.
EFG Asset Management has hired former GAM China equity fund manager Mansfield Mok as it targets further expansion of its Asia-oriented investment strategies.
F&C Investments is to launch an US large cap investment trust targeting both capital and income growth and managed by Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney and Strauss (BHMS) a US active asset manager with $66bn in AUM.
Matt Siddle has been appointed lead manager of the Fidelity European Growth Fund, as former manager Alexander Scurlock is relocated to a new role within the investment team.
Close Brothers’ asset management division is expected to report a loss for the three months to 30 April as it nears the end of its restructuring phase.
