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.
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Profits fall at Henderson
Henderson AUM increased marginally in 2012, but the firm’s profits fell by 8% the end of year report showed.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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potter – world running out of bearish reasons
Investors considering allocating to equities for the first time in years could do a lot better than “dipping their toes in the water” with large caps, according to Gary Potter, co-head of multi-manager funds at Thames River.
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Equities rise as sterling plummets
The UK equity market is outpacing its European counterparts, and could continue doing so despite on-going currency woes according to the chief investment officer at Coutts.