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  • morton departs blackrock uk property

    morton departs blackrock uk property

    BlackRock has confirmed Jeff Morton, head of investment on its UK Property Fund, has left the firm to pursue other opportunities.

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  • eea bites back at fsa on death bonds

    eea bites back at fsa on death bonds

    EEA Fund Management has called on the FSA to retract its statement naming traded life policy investments (TLPIs) “toxic”, and has asked the watchdog to clarify which funds in the sector it believes to be “Ponzi schemes”.

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  • aberdeen beefs up asia pacific team

    aberdeen beefs up asia pacific team

    Aberdeen Asset Management has appointed Peter Elston to the newly-created role of head of Asia Pacific strategy & asset allocation.

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  • a weak euro encouraging on a number of levels

    a weak euro encouraging on a number of levels

    Bill Dinning explains why he doubts there will be any widescale structural reform to the eurozone though we are in for a long, drawn-out unravelling of the debt structure we currently have.

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  • Standard Life expands myfolio range

    Standard Life expands myfolio range

    Standard Life has expanded its MyFolio range with the launch of two new fund suites – Multi-Manager Income and Managed Income.

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  • threadneedle launches european absolute return

    threadneedle launches european absolute return

    Threadneedle Investments has launched a European absolute return strategy for manager Paul Doyle.

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  • ossiam and ftse group join forces

    ossiam and ftse group join forces

    Natixis-owned Ossiam announced today it has teamed with FTSE Group to launch a minimum variance-based ETF using a specially designed index.

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  • legacy commission - blazing a trail

    legacy commission – blazing a trail

    The FSA is now closed… to responses on its consultation paper dealing with legacy assets and their treatment after the RDR rules come into effect. But we have not heard the end of it, not by a long shot.

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  • IMA calls for clearer guidelines

    IMA calls for clearer guidelines

    The IMA has called the FSA’s guidelines on legacy commission post-RDR “unclear and incomplete” and warned they could result in increased costs for investors.

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  • etps trump mutual funds

    etps trump mutual funds

    The global ETP industry captured $142bn in net new assets in the year to November, while mutual funds suffered $29bn in redemptions over the same timeframe, according to BlackRock’s year-end ETP Landscape Report.

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  • newtons munroe takes global equities

    newtons munroe takes global equities

    Jeff Munroe will step down as CIO of Newton in a bid to turn around the performance of key funds in the global equities arena.

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  • pictet expands small-cap team

    pictet expands small-cap team

    Pictet Asset Management has appointed Allain Caffort as a senior investment manager in the small cap equity team.

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