Liontrust’s capture of Kames Capital’s prized fixed income co-heads Phil Milburn and David Roberts is further proof that the fund house is “on the up and up”. What is less clear is where exactly this leaves Kames.
Small and expensive, are funds that have failed to hit £10m in assets just clogging up the investment universe?
A growing number of institutional investors in Europe are embedding ESG analysis in their investment processes in response to regulatory pressure, consumer demand and a rising appetite for new sources of investment signals.
You often hear the old adage “it’s different this time”, but 10 years on from the start of the global financial crisis, are we actually at risk of repeating the same mistakes?
With assets under management totalling £63.5bn, the IA UK Equity Income sector has long been a favourite of investors hunting yield in a low interest rate environment.
Multi-asset funds have been an investor favourite for years, but why would a professional investor invest in these one-stop shop funds?
Daniel Godfrey is on a charm offensive. With the initial public offering (IPO) of The People’s Trust pencilled in for 7 September, he is busy preparing to float the trust on two stock exchanges.
It was a bad time to be an active manager in 2016, the year of Brexit and Trump, with underperformance plaguing funds as passives tracked the market higher and higher.
The investment industry has been venting its frustration over the Bank of England’s “wait and see” stance to a rate hike for some time now. But are the calls for hawkish action actually justified?
In the not too distant past, the notion of investing in technology for anything but capital growth would have been scoffed at.
Net inflows into Japanese equity funds by European investors have picked up recently, as the current macro environment looks conducive to Japanese equities. Asset managers are also jumping on board with the asset class, but why?
Portfolio advisers are to be subject to a new regulatory regime initially devised to make senior managers in banks responsible for the actions of staff, but soon to be applied to staff in 47,000 financial services firms.
