Brooks Macdonald has joined the growing rank of asset managers that have seen total assets contract for the first three months of 2018, but Amundi has just managed to buck the trend, posting assets under management (AUM) growth in Q1.
Fidelity has hired Amundi Asset Management’s head of equities Romain Boscher to be its new global chief investment officer, equities.
JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has expanded its ETF team with three hires.
Brian Clay has left his role as head of UK wholesale at Amundi Pioneer, Portfolio Adviser has learned.
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.
