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”.
Author: Portfolio Adviser
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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.
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china monetary conditions will ease only gradually
Klaus Bockstaller explains why he thinks emerging market earnings forecasts of 10% for this year are realistic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Japan taxing times
Neil Williams discusses the proposed rise in Japan’s consumption tax and the impact it, and other plans, could have on the Bank of Japan’s purchase of government bonds.
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top fund manager talent revealed
Jupiter, Schroders and Henderson were among those fund houses awarded multiple FE Alpha Manager ratings for 2012, marking them out as top of the talent pool.
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cautious managed funds highest
The IMA Cautious Managed Sector saw the highest net retail sales in 2011, for what was the second year running, even while sales of the funds dropped by almost £1bn.