Standard Life Wealth is the discretionary arm of the eponymous life company, set up to challenge the way private client money is currently being run. Its claims are not unique, but the overall packaging from a multi-billion pound parent probably is.
Liquidity concerns cited by many IFAs to be a major turn off when it comes to investment trusts do not appear to be a problem for private client wealth managers who hold large positions in closed-end vehicles, according to JPMorgan Asset Management.
Seven Investment Management has joined forces with US firm Pzena to launch a new US Large Cap Diversified Value strategy, marking the latter’s first foray into the European fund market.
Unlike some other fund trends, the industrys embrace of multi-asset is more evolution than revolution but have groups done enough to convince investors to let them do the asset allocation?
Barings has announced plans to offer an Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Fund using a currency overlay to hedge US dollar exposure into emerging markets currencies.
Bob Doll looks at market behaviour over the past two weeks and explains why short-term equity prospects, along with those of other “risk assets”, hinge on the outcomes of key policy meetings in the near future.
Morgan Stanley has relaunched a number of structured products including its first gilt-backed plan since the end of last year.
M&G is to undertake a major rebranding of its multi-asset range, realigning it for RDR and launching its new Episode Defensive Fund.
A wall of money has gone into corporate and strategic bond funds, but fund pickers and fund managers alike are getting nervous about this predilection for credit
As investors move into risk-free(ish) and counter-cyclical assets, Paval Gagarin runs through the many investment opportunities that Russia offers in just these areas.
Swiss asset manager Mirabaud has recruited former-BlackRock GEM co-head Daniel Tubbs to manage a new emerging markets Ucits fund.
One of the main facets of RDR is – or rather was – the uptake in the sale of products that don’t focus on paying a commission but if investment trusts and ETFs, for example, do see a surge in sales it will be because of better adviser education not a single product feature.
