Investment

  • Capital floods into emerging markets

    Capital floods into emerging markets

    Emerging market funds magnetised investment in January with some fund categories enjoying record monthly inflows, Morningstar data shows.

  • New senior bond strategist at Investec

    New senior bond strategist at Investec

    Dawn Kendall is to join Investec Wealth and Investment as senior bond strategist, the firm has announced.

  • Kames revamp fee structure on absolute return fund

    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.

  • Profits fall at Henderson

    Profits fall at Henderson

    Henderson AUM increased marginally in 2012, but the firm’s profits fell by 8% the end of year report showed.

  • Unfair investment terms re-written

    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.

  • Target maturity fund launch

    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.

  • smart investors moves after uk downgrade

    smart investors moves after uk downgrade

    So George Osborne has been stripped of his prefect’s badge and told to brush up on his maths skills. What he, and the coalition government, chooses to do now is anyone’s guess. The path for investors is at last clear though…

  • Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy

    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.

  • New share class launched for JB fund

    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.

  • credit fixed income absolute return struggle

    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.

  • finex russian debt etf far from me too

    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.

  • African opportunities

    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.