Lansdown backs arts investment firm
Stephen Lansdown is becoming a partner and shareholder in Edge Investments, a creative industries investment group.
Stephen Lansdown is becoming a partner and shareholder in Edge Investments, a creative industries investment group.
The case for investing in India has been well made recently, but warnings on the risks have been scarce.
Kames Capital is launching The Kames Emerging Market Bond Fund that will invest primarily in investment grade debt of EM sovereigns and corporates, mainly in hard currency.
Fund sales in pensions have soared in the wake of the pension freedoms introduced in April.
Aberdeen and M&G led the pack in Tilney Bestinvest’s latest Spot the Dog report of disappointing funds, though the overall number of serial underperformers has fallen.
As with markets, so with cricket. After the variable bounce infused contest that saw Australia comprehensively beaten in Cardiff, the second test has started much more poorly for England on a road of a pitch at Lords – an indication of just how quickly things can change.
From forex-rigging bankers to (allegedly) naughty FIFA officials, Lord Acton’s famous words on how “absolute power corrupts absolutely” have rarely been more relevant. But what absolutes are there for when markets misbehave?
Jupiter Asset Management CEO, Martin Slenderbroek recently compared the firm to the oil services industry.
European financial trade bodies have unanimously welcomed in the European Commission’s green paper on creating a Capital Markets Union, describing it as an opportunity to support the industry’s “sustainable economic growth and long-term financing”
Kames Capital has launched a fixed income Constrained strategy for Euan McNeil, rolled out alongside its previously reported Absolute Return Bond Global Fund.
Funds which aim to achieve positive returns regardless of market direction have enjoyed unprecedented inflows over the past year. While the main driver behind this trend is the increased investor need to dampen their losses when markets fall, risk-parity funds engender risks of their own kind.
Dexion Capital has launched an ‘alternatives UCITS platform’ called Dexion Liquid Strategies.