Winterflood: Net buyers of trusts expected to drop to decade lows
Consolidation and cost disclosure concerns to remain key topics over the coming year
Investment
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Tritax Big Box tables £924m offer for UK Commercial Property Reit
Creating a £3.9bn trust if approved
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High yield maturity wall: Should investors be concerned?
Speculative-grade debt is accounting for a growing share of upcoming maturities, expected to rise four-fold by 2028
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Natixis: Investors’ long-term return expectations fall to 6.3%
65% believe market volatility will increase from 2023, according to Natixis Investment Managers survey
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Digital 9 Infrastucture’s sale of Verne Global delayed by regulatory investigation
Icelandic regulator has opened a ‘Phase II’ investigation into the proposed sale to Ardian France
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State Street launches Article 8 emerging market bond fund
Initial £39.6m investment
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Hipgnosis shareholders back £20m offer to prospective buyers
99.9% of those who attended the EGM voted in favour
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Pridham Report: ‘Bruising’ 2023 sees record outflows for UK fund industry
BlackRock tops gross and net annual flows for 10th consecutive year
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Stifel: Scale of likely BlackRock World Mining dividend cut could ‘unsettle’ income investors
Yield would still be an estimated 6% despite a potential 43% cut to its final dividend, compared to 2022
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The Lang Cat: Advised platforms suffer record outflows in 2023
Outflows increased by 36.3% compared to 2022
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Will inflation fall enough for ‘year of the bond’?
Are there longer-term risks to the seemingly benign inflation picture?
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Hargreaves Lansdown flags two funds as poor value in AoV report
Multi-Manager Asia & Emerging Markets and Strategic Bond funds red-flagged over poor performance