Author: Portfolio Adviser

  • glg soft closes award-winning

    glg soft closes award-winning

    GLG has announced the intention to soft close both its Japan CoreAlpha Fund and its Japan CoreAlpha Equity Fund from 30 March.

  • Alliance Trust Investments launches Global Thematic Opportunities Fund

    Approaches to global equity investing have changed significantly over the last few decades. In this video, Ilario Di Bon and Juergen Lanzer, lead managers of the recently launched Alliance Trust Global Thematic Opportunities Fund, discuss the new product and the investment benefits of analysing long-term structural trends. The value of investments and any income from…

  • newton expands global

    newton expands global

    Newton has appointed Sebastien Poulin as a high yield analyst in its global fixed income team, joining from Standard & Poor’s.

  • schroders launches em small cap

    schroders launches em small cap

    Schroders has unveiled an emerging market small cap offering to be run by Matthew Dobbs, head of global and international small cap equities at the firm.

  • brazil domestic focus removes reliance on exports

    brazil domestic focus removes reliance on exports

    Brazil’s exports are made up of almost exclusively commodities and financials but its domestic focus brings far more attractive avenues for external investors.

  • allianz gi to open income and growth

    allianz gi to open income and growth

    Allianz Global Investors has announced plans to offer its Income and Growth Fund to UK investors, with the launch of a new sterling-hedged share class by the end of the first quarter.

  • em bonds and equities

    em bonds and equities

    Emerging Market bond funds saw record inflows in the first week of February, as their equity counterparts also witnessed continued favour with investors, according to EPFR Global.

  • Allianz RCM UK Equity Income Fund

    Simon Gergel, Fund Manager RCM, talks about delivering total return from the UK Equities and how he manages the fund against a benchmark of the FTSE Allshare index

  • Irish-domiciled funds set for boost

    Irish-domiciled funds set for boost

    The Irish fund industry received a boost from a set of provisions in the countrys Finance Bill last week, according to its fund association, which are accommodating to the Ucits IV directive.

  • latest version of fatca rules clarify simplify

    latest version of fatca rules clarify simplify

    Kristin Konschnik, a partner in the London office of Withers, the international law firm, looks at the IRSs latest proposal for implementing FATCA.

  • ima - credit rating agencies

    ima – credit rating agencies

    Credit rating agencies should be left to function independently and free from political interference the IMA has said in a submission to the Treasury Select Committee.

  • plenty of trees to pass to get out of the woods

    plenty of trees to pass to get out of the woods

    Neel Kashkari gives his suggestions for where US equity investors should be putting their money bearing in mind his views on the over-reliance on household debt for growth.