Capital floods into emerging markets
Emerging market funds magnetised investment in January with some fund categories enjoying record monthly inflows, Morningstar data shows.
Investment
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New senior bond strategist at Investec
Dawn Kendall is to join Investec Wealth and Investment as senior bond strategist, the firm has announced.
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Kames revamp fee structure on absolute return fund
Kames has removed the performance fee on its UK Equity Absolute Return Fund in a bid to simplify the charging structure following RDR.
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Profits fall at Henderson
Henderson AUM increased marginally in 2012, but the firm’s profits fell by 8% the end of year report showed.
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Unfair investment terms re-written
The FSA has demanded terms and conditions across a range of structured products be amended, branding them “unfair” and misleading to investors.
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Target maturity fund launch
Oddo Asset Management has launched a target maturity fund which will be invested primarily in corporate bonds with high yield potential.
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Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy
Schroders has re-opened its US mid-cap strategy to capitalise on renewed investor appetite for developed market equities.
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New share class launched for JB fund
Swiss & Global has launched a new monthly distribution sterling share class for its Julius Baer Emerging Markets Inflation Linked Bond Fund.
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credit fixed income absolute return struggle
Given the low interest rate/low bond yield environment, Rob Harley argues that the fixed income strategies we have seen so much of recently coule be in for a torrid ride.
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finex russian debt etf far from me too
FinEx Group has entered the European exchange-traded fund market with the listing of a Russian Corporate Bond Fund on the London Stock Exchange today.
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African opportunities
There is an abundance of high-yield opportunities in Africa for those investors prepared to take a bit more of a risk, a research report from Jupiter Asset Management suggests.
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potter – world running out of bearish reasons
Investors considering allocating to equities for the first time in years could do a lot better than “dipping their toes in the water” with large caps, according to Gary Potter, co-head of multi-manager funds at Thames River.
