Investment

  • investment trusts neil woodford exit invesco

    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.

  • man group glg alternatives neil mason hire

    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.

  • greater regulation weak response to failure

    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.

  • Liontrust buys North

    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.

  • pa analysis the US has just gone bust

    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.

  • BlackRock Emerging markets Europe energy stiocks

    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.

  • City Financial Asia Macro

    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.

  • emerging market summer sell off set to continue

    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.

  • LandG dumps head structured products

    LandG dumps head structured products

    Legal & General Investment’s head of structured solutions has paid the price for poor sales and been made redundant after 15 years with the firm.

  • Taper tantrums and the Feds future

    Taper tantrums and the Feds future

    It's clear Janet Yellen faces challenges ahead at the Fed, on a personal level as well as professional one with commentators already looking to get a handle on who she is and what she stands for, and getting the nicknames ready.

  • appreciate art do not invest in it

    appreciate art do not invest in it

    Investors are constantly on a hunt for assets that can improve the risk-adjusted return of their financial portfolios and in times when the economy is performing poorly, there is a demand for assets that have a low correlation with such traditional asset classes as stocks and bonds.

  • Two out two top ten investment trusts revealed

    Two out two top ten investment trusts revealed

    During the summer months, investors have been researching investment trusts in greater detail, with the top-ten most sought-after trusts detailed on the following pages.