ignis adds to client relationship teams
Ignis has hired a product specialist from BlackRock and a sales director from Deutsche Asset Management as it continues to expand its third-party distribution.
Ignis has hired a product specialist from BlackRock and a sales director from Deutsche Asset Management as it continues to expand its third-party distribution.
Jenna Barnard has been promoted to deputy head of retail fixed income at Henderson Global Investors.
Chris Iggo looks at what is ahead for fixed income investors given the significant returns made already this year and asks whether now is the time to lock those gains in.
The second half of the past two years undid much of the good work done during the first half and with a rocky Q4 to come, 2012 could mirror it more closely than the current picture would indicate.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched an offshore Indian bond fund to be run by Gordon Rodrigues.
Ignis Asset Management has hired Ingrid Neitsch as head of credit strategies ahead of an institutional fund launch later this year.
It seems there is a scarcity of asset classes where investors can guarantee a high income and still sleep soundly but, beyond equities, where else should investors look?
After soft-closing the proposition in December last year, Allianz Global Investors has reopened its Renminbi Fixed Income Fund.
Prudentials half-year results show M&G in rude health, achieving just under £5bn of inflows, but what does the future hold for a firm that leans heavily upon its fixed income success?
What to make of fund statistics? The IMA says retail sales in the first half of the year almost doubled those achieved in the second half of 2011, but weve just come off the back the worst month of the year so far.
According to Morningstar’s latest fund flow research, European investors heavily sold out of equities in favour of fixed income funds during the second quarter of the year.
Investors may have been piling into UK corporate bond funds this year, but it is emerging market debt where fund groups appear to see the big opportunity for expansion.