barings launches global mining fund
Baring Asset Management has announced the launch of a Global Mining Fund for ex-BlackRock vice president Clive Burstow, who rejoined the firm in June.
Baring Asset Management has announced the launch of a Global Mining Fund for ex-BlackRock vice president Clive Burstow, who rejoined the firm in June.
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The outlook for the investment trust sector in 2012 is mixed and if market conditions remain challenging discounts should be expected to widen further, according to analysts at Winterflood Investment Trusts.
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Pierre-Yves Bareau explains why ratings agencies will look more favourably on ex Europe emerging markets this year while adding a defensive emerging market position is the sensible approach.
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Schroders has appointed Duncan Owen as head of property funds in conjunction with its takeover of the Invista Foundation Property Trust mandate.
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Regulators are under pressure to make their stance on ETFs clear this year as in 2011 they spent lots of time just “talking about it”, says Michael John Lytle managing director at ETF provider Source.
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Sushil Wadhwani argues the case for strategies to include more than just fundamental analysis to take advantage of market volatility now as well as calmer times ahead.
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Stephen Gay, director general of the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is leaving the organisation to take up a directorship at the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
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Thames River has recruited Brett Golledge from UBS in a restructuring of its global credit team that sees two other members depart the firm.
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Anthony Bolton’s Fidelity China Special Situations Fund is a “leap of faith” with an uncertain future, according to Morningstar, which cited the fund’s investment into two fraudulent companies last year as a key area of concern.
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In the short time we have been back following the festive hiatus there has been a muted but audible buzz in the air about the Absolute Return Sector. Why is this and is it about to turn into a foghorn?
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The approach of RDR will see the funds industry continue to shrink in 2012, with big-name managers retiring and fund mergers and closures more common, according to Thames River Multi-Capital.
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Neil Williams describes the eurozone’s economic deterioration at a level that means recession is inevitable and explains why even a common eurobond is not the answer.
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