Gresham House nabs Amundi’s BD head
Ex-Amundi man Michael Hart has joined Gresham House as head of distribution effective immediately.
Ex-Amundi man Michael Hart has joined Gresham House as head of distribution effective immediately.
Amundi has joined forces with the International Finance Corporation to launch the world’s largest green bond fund dedicated to emerging markets.
Lombard Odier Investment Managers have announced the appointment of Jerry Devlin to lead its third party distribution team.
Amundi has hired Raphaël Sobotka as head of multi-asset for retail clients and Laurent Tignard as head of multi-asset for institutional clients.
French asset management firm Amundi has confirmed its interest in buying Pioneer Investment from Italian bank UniCredit but denied the €4bn (£3.6bn, $4.4bn) bid offer reported in the media.
The European market is actually more volatile than emerging markets, said the firm’s deputy global head of equities, Alexandre Drabowicz.
Last year saw record inflows into SRI funds yet the choice available is ok at best according to the buyers and potential buyers of said funds.
At our PA Emerging Markets event, we asked seven expert fund managers if investing across the regions was any more difficult than getting value from Europe; taking on Latin American bonds and banks; and getting the right Asian balance between India’s positives and China’s weaknesses.
At our recent PA Emerging Markets event, wealth managers told us they are incredibly positive on the developing world while the specialist fund managers were less so – we asked them why.
A great deal has already been written about the challenges facing asset allocators in a world where bonds yields have been pushing lower for the better part of 30 years.
Amundi is making its French market focused Multi Asset Global fund available to international investors by launching a UCITS-compliant SICAV version.
Nobody on the planet knows when the Fed is going to put up interest rates but Amundi has a fixed income proposition that is ready whenever the balloon does go up.