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.
Investment
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lyxor launches China A Shares ETF
Lyxor has launched an ETF offering exposure to China A Shares, while revealing steps to “complete” its range with frontier market trackers to be introduced next year.
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Time to dump the bond proxies
The IMF has this week trimmed its growth forecasts and warned of a “subdued” trajectory for the global economy, but that’s still unlikely to push investors back into the relative safe haven of bonds.
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double digit growth multi asset morgan stanley
After a 30-year bull market in bonds, the past three months have seen the first signs of tensions related to an ultimate end to QE.
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Risk targeted investors should not lose sight
A new breed of multi-manager/multi-asset funds are making waves in the retail market, but with the move to risk-targeted and risk-rated could investors be sacrificing upside return potential?
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mandg recruits emd Invesco
M&G Investments has hired former Invesco emerging markets debt expert Claudia Calich to its retail fixed income team, reporting to Jim Leaviss, head of retail fixed interest.
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Daily dealing limits property funds
Last night I joined the (fifth of a) mile-high club courtesy of a trip up The Shard. Yes, a primary rule of financial hackery states the higher the FTSE, the loftier the shindig.
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smith maxwell property jupiter merlin
Jupiter’s Algy Smith-Maxwell is holding his interest in the property sector but has yet to find a buying opportunity in the asset class.
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property benefits from reduced bond upside
As property is starting to grab investors' attention once again here is a comparison of an open-ended route into the asset class (through the SWIP Property Trust) and a closed-ended equivalent (Picton Property Income).