rising bond yields hit the wall in september
The past few months have seen a trend of rising bond yields that was broken in September. Developments at the Federal Reserve took a more dovish turn, easing the chief source of recent market concern.
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woodford exit investment trust edinburgh investec
Investec Wealth & Investment has upped its position in Neil Woodford’s Edinburgh Investment Trust, taking advantage of its drop to a discount after the star announced his exit from Invesco Perpetual.
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UBS fixed income henderson
Former UBS Global Asset Management global fixed income head Rob Gambi is to join Henderson to serve as its chief investment officer.
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absolute return funds one answer
Investors are questioning absolute return approaches given the tough time they have had so far this year, particularly when there is a strong argument that an equity/cash combination could work just as well.
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investment trusts neil woodford exit invesco
Edinburgh Investment Trust is already coming under pressure, and its board is being tipped to launch a beauty parade following the announcement Neil Woodford would depart.
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man group glg alternatives neil mason hire
Man Group has hired former BlueCrest man Neil Mason, brining him on board as a senior managing director and handing him lead portfolio manager duties.
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greater regulation weak response to failure
We all have the ability to look back in history with rose-tinted glasses especially to the periods when we were growing up (the 1970s in this case), even if that means remembering those skin-tight flares, platform shoes and black and white TVs.
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Liontrust buys North
Chief executive John Ions continues his canny expansion of Liontrust Asset Management with the acquisition for £1 of multi-asset firm North Investment Partners.
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pa analysis the US has just gone bust
Investors are anxiously awaiting the deadline – 48 hours from now – for the US to raise the amount its government has to borrow as they will then know exactly what the debt ceiling will be raised to.
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BlackRock Emerging markets Europe energy stiocks
BlackRock’s Sam Vecht is looking to out of favour energy giant Gazprom to power his £111.1m Emerging Europe trust.
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City Financial Asia Macro
City Financial is to launch an Asian macro fund in the first quarter of 2014 to be managed by Geoffrey Barker in a joint venture with the group's Hong Kong subsidiary.
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emerging market summer sell off set to continue
There is room for a further sell-off of emerging market currencies, because countries with large external imbalances, such as Turkey, India, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia remain vulnerable to rising US yields.