the middle man
Gary Shepherd speaks to Paul Spencer about the under-owned nature of mid caps, the frustrations of owning a stock that’s too successful, and the transition from Investec to Franklin Templeton.
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BBH launches global research proposition
Brown Brothers Harriman has launched a Global Portfolio Strategy research product to help portfolio managers with their international equity allocation.
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db x-trackers launches new emerging Asia ETFs
db x-trackers has listed two new emerging Asian ETFS on the London Stock Exchange giving investors access to the Pakistan and Bangladesh equity markets.
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french leading the way in smart innovation
On one hand were told that groups are feeling stretched and there are too many funds, on the other were seeing new names and innovative products… especially from the French.
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signals telling us it is right to panic schroders
Schroders Private Banking’s head of asset allocation sees oversold markets and a number of indicators saying it is right to panic. He asks if these same signs point to a rapid rebound or faster-paced downturn.
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barclays absolute return commodity fund UK
Barclays is to introduce a sterling share class of its commodity-based absolute return Capital Combats Fund into the UK.
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std life wealth more than life company spin off
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.
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advisers can learn from wealth managers
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.
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7im brings us firm and strategy to uk
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.
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in check with multi asset evolution
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?
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barings to launch emd among flurry
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.
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growing confidence in policymakers
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.