Author: Portfolio Adviser

  • polin expands board in continuation

    polin expands board in continuation

    Ashcourt Rowan has announced the appointment of Richard Sinclair to the board of the company, the latest in a series of executive changes since Johnathin Polin has been in charge.

  • martin currie poaches industrials analyst

    martin currie poaches industrials analyst

    Martin Currie has hired Matthew Franklin who joins after 15 years with Schroders as the new senior investment analyst for global industrials and utilities research.

  • shaughnessy departs Fidelity for Zurich

    shaughnessy departs Fidelity for Zurich

    Fidelity’s UK managing director Gary Shaughnessy is to depart the firm to head up Zurich’s UK Life business from June 2012.

  • valuations may start to become a problem iggo

    valuations may start to become a problem iggo

    Chris Iggo steers through what we know – low growth, stable, low interest rates and other quantifiable risks – and points investors to where the fixed income opportunities are.

  • thesis expands with two senior hires

    thesis expands with two senior hires

    Thesis Asset Management has made two senior management hires, Lawrence Cook and Neil Lloyd, who will join as business development & marketing director and compliance manager respectively.

  • source unveils european value etf

    source unveils european value etf

    Source has unveiled an ETF designed to provide value-focused exposure to the European equity market with an AMC of 0.35%.

  • kames waives performance fee on abs ret

    kames waives performance fee on abs ret

    Kames Capital has announced its intention to waive the performance fee on its UK Equity Absolute Return Fund until the end of the year from 2 April.

  • Allianz RCM Europe Equity Growth Strategy

    Thorsten Winkelman, Fund Manager, highlights the strategies aim of out-performing the relevant European Stock markets along with talking about the funds within the strategy. He then goes on to talk about the investment principles involved.

  • martin grays miton funds boost mam

    martin grays miton funds boost mam

    MAM Funds has announced a 5% increase in average funds under management during 2011, with Martin Gray’s Miton Special Situations and his Miton Strategic funds among those with the biggest pull for investors.

  • husselbee slow recovery corporates above gilts

    husselbee slow recovery corporates above gilts

    Now he has had time to digest last week’s Budget, John Husselbee assesses what it means for his investment portfolios, with a particular emphasis on his fixed income holdings.

  • fsa fines coutts for serious and systemic

    fsa fines coutts for serious and systemic

    Coutts & Co has been fined £8.75m by the FSA for anti-money laundering (AML) control failings, which the regulator has termed “serious, systemic and allowed to persist for almost three years”.

  • aberdeen sees aum grow 10bn

    aberdeen sees aum grow 10bn

    Aberdeen Asset Management saw £10bn added to its AUM in the two months to the end of February, with a strong showing from its equity products largely to thank for the boost.