Author: Portfolio Adviser

  • muzinich boosts high yield team

    muzinich boosts high yield team

    Muzinich & Co has hired Mike McEachern as a senior investment manager in its high yield team, joining from US-based Seix Investment Advisers.

  • lgim employee arrested in fsa

    lgim employee arrested in fsa

    The latest FSA arrest in a long-running and complex insider dealing investigation has been confirmed to be an L&G Investment Management employee.

  • brewin dolphin promotes exeter

    brewin dolphin promotes exeter

    Brewin Dolphin has appointed a new head for its Exeter Office, Tim Walker, as the former head Richard Pike steps back to concentrate on his work for the groups charity team.

  • first state denies soft-closure

    first state denies soft-closure

    First State has denied its GEM Leaders Fund is nearing soft closure and said it still has plenty of capacity for further inflows.

  • sale fails to dampen quilter expansion

    sale fails to dampen quilter expansion

    Wealth Manager Quilter has expanded its investment management team with the appointment of Oliver Stainer, who was previously at Towry.

  • noble-nesbitt to lead dfm service

    noble-nesbitt to lead dfm service

    Close Brothers Asset Management has announced its top talent Deryck Noble-Nebitt is to head up a new discretionary investment service for private clients.

  • top alternatives to aberdeen in gem

    top alternatives to aberdeen in gem

    The news Aberdeen had soft closed its Emerging Markets Fund will have been met by some with dismay. But theres no point mourning an option no longer open to you, so where should you invest EM capital instead?

  • rowan dartington puts risk

    rowan dartington puts risk

    Rowan Dartington has announced details of a new investment process, putting individual security risk at the centre of its proposition, rather than asset class risk.

  • first state clears up confusion with

    first state clears up confusion with

    First State has renamed its Asia Pacific/Global Emerging Markets equities team, led by Angus Tulloch and Stuart Paul, in an attempt to prevent confusion among clients with its new EM debt team.

  • axa wealths platform leads

    axa wealths platform leads

    Axa UK posted what it has termed a “strong turn-around” of UK operations today with sales onto Axa Wealth’s Elevate Platform up 75% and an increase in FUM for its multi-manager business, Architas.

  • rathbones awaits rdr rebate clarification

    rathbones awaits rdr rebate clarification

    Rathbones has released further details of its ‘RDR-friendly’ share class, which will roll out across its fund range on 1 March, but admitted it might need to move again after the FSA reveals its full position on rebates to platforms.

  • innovation makes way for defence carmignac gestion

    innovation makes way for defence carmignac gestion

    Didier St Georges sees a great deal of positives affecting equity valuations yet is still keen to remain primarly defensively positioned.