Author: Portfolio Adviser

  • rushton joins walker crips

    rushton joins walker crips

    Mark Rushton, former head of offering for UK wealth management at BNP Paribas, has joined Walker Crips Stockbrokers as CIO amid a drive for growth.

  • jpm and Source launch etf

    jpm and Source launch etf

    JPMorgan and Source have launched an ETF designed to be used by “sophisticated investors” to access volatility as either a hedging strategy or as an asset class in its own right.

  • new protected structured product

    new protected structured product

    Santander-owned Cater Allen Private Bank has launched a new structured product with 100% participation in FTSE 100 growth and full capital protection.

  • barings multi-asset adds

    barings multi-asset adds

    Barings’ global multi-asset group has been adding to risk assets for the first time in over a year, even as it admits we are not headed into a “new bull market”.

  • aviva manager dropped from skandia best ideas

    aviva manager dropped from skandia best ideas

    SIG reacts to Aviva Investors’ strategic uncertainty by dropping one of its managers from its UK Strategic Best Ideas Fund.

  • china monetary conditions will ease only gradually

    china monetary conditions will ease only gradually

    Klaus Bockstaller explains why he thinks emerging market earnings forecasts of 10% for this year are realistic.

  • rlams inflows down two thirds

    rlams inflows down two thirds

    Royal London Asset Management saw net new business fall by two-thirds last year even as Royal London 360 saw new business up 21% in the period.

  • schroders comes full circle

    schroders comes full circle

    Schroders has announced details of a Strategic Bond Fund planned for Gareth Isaac just months after its previous fund of that strategy was shifted into the Absolute Return Sector.

  • em funds see best january

    em funds see best january

    Emerging Market equity funds have enjoyed the best start to the year, in terms of fund flows, since 2006 as investors’ risk appetite finally returned to the table.

  • l and g appoints merrifield

    l and g appoints merrifield

    Legal & General has hired Robert Merrifield in a newly-created role of investment research and development director of IMRU, its specialist independent investment consultancy.

  • gam and barcap partner

    gam and barcap partner

    Gam and Barclays Capital have joined forces to launch a Ucits fund of quantitative indices with the aim of delivering consistent non-correlated returns in any market environment.

  • barcap launches onshore radar fund

    barcap launches onshore radar fund

    Barclays Capital intends to launch an onshore offering of its Radar Fund in March, following the same global macro investment strategy as the Dublin-domiciled version.