franklin templeton set to launch africa fund
Emerging market specialist Franklin Templeton has been given the green light to launch a new Africa strategy for its high profile fund manager and chief executive Mark Mobius.
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Barclays and GAM launch multi-strategy index fund
Barclays and GAM have teamed up to launch a proposition based on alternative, quantitatively-run indices managed by Barclays.
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Schroders launches fettered income fund of funds
Schroders has launched a new income fund of funds investing in its own Maximiser and fixed income fund ranges.
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aberdeens apac team kept on as nomura dropped
Aberdeen Asset Management’s Asia Pacific team, run by Hugh Young, has been given a vote of confidence by Witan Pacific Investment Trust, while Witan Pacific’s other existing manager, Nomura Asset Management UK, has been dropped.
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alliance bernstein american fund
Morningstar OBSR has put the rating of the AllianceBernstein American Growth Fund under review following news the manager Scott Wallace departed the firm.
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odey puts money where his mouth is
Crispin Odey has changed the mandate on his flagship European hedge fund to include a maximum of 50% invested outside Europe, as he predicts anaemic growth will continue in the region.
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Cockburn loses funds in SWIP UK equity restructure
SWIP has taken two more funds away from Peter Cockburn as it continues its equities investment restructure.
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cazenoves harvey brought in line with peers
Cazenove Capital is to launch a second model for its head of credit Peter Harvey in a move that will bring him in line with his colleagues and satisfy clients looking for unconstrained access to bond markets.
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ishares introduces dollar denominated em etf
iShares has listed Europe’s first ETF in Europe that provides access to emerging market corporate bonds denominated in dollars.
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nordea opens sov bond fund with real view of risk
Financial services group Nordea has launched an actively-managed European government bond fund which assesses risk based on credit default swap spreads, rather than relying on data from third-party credit rating agencies such as Fitch, Moodys and Standard & Poors.
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threadneedles emd departures turn up at sli
Threadneedle’s former head of emerging market debt (EMD) has resurfaced at Standard Life Investments (SLI) alongside two of his former colleagues as part of a newly-created EMD team.
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flatter organisation sees aviva investors
Aviva Investors’ CEO Alain Dromer is the latest senior executive to leave the firm following a “reshape” instigated by the parent company to make the organisation “flatter”.