Axa

  • China strong currency wider reform agenda

    China strong currency wider reform agenda

    From an economic perspective China’s strong currency is hurting exporters but, as Mark Tinker argues, there is a far bigger reform agenda here.

  • AXA offers UK retail investors 54 offshore funds

    AXA offers UK retail investors 54 offshore funds

    A number of funds in the company’s World Funds range have been registered for sale in the UK.

  • Investors overbearish gilts Axa IM Nick Hayes

    Investors overbearish gilts Axa IM Nick Hayes

    While there is an improving macro environment either side of the Atlantic, Nick Hayes explains why he thinks they are moving at different speeds for different reasons and where he is looking to allocate as a result.

  • Axa Wealth posts 18 percent rise in AUM

    Axa Wealth posts 18 percent rise in AUM

    Axa Wealth has reported an 18% rise in overall assets, boosted by the Architas and Elevate platforms.

  • 100 year bond

    100 year bond

    Two one-hundred-year bonds have been introduced in the past week but is there a benefit to an investment with a time horizon that will outlast every wealth manager client?

  • axa im launches global multi asset income fund

    axa im launches global multi asset income fund

    Axa Investment Management has launched a multi-asset income fund called Axa WF Global Income Generation.

  • Switch from QE high yield equities Iggo

    Switch from QE high yield equities Iggo

    Chris Iggo’s view on various fixed income asset classes in 2014 is largely similar to what actually played out last year though he does warn of some critical risks that need to be avoided.

  • Theo Zemek to exit Axa IM

    Theo Zemek to exit Axa IM

    Theo Zemek will be leaving Axa Investment Managers at the end of the year with Barclays John Porter taking the reins as global head of fixed income.

  • Thomas backs ITV

    Thomas backs ITV

    ITV is now the top holding in Nigel Thomas’ AXA Framlington UK Select Opportunities Fund, part of a preference for stocks which he says are aligning themselves with total shareholder returns.

  • axa real estate alternatives management team

    axa real estate alternatives management team

    Axa Real Estate has widened its alternatives business's mandate and made three senior manager changes as it looks to expand away from healthcare and student accommodation.

  • emerging europe asian crisis of late 90s

    emerging europe asian crisis of late 90s

    The noise traders remain obsessed with tapering with their spokespeople queuing up this week to say that the Fed had lost credibility, which is market speak for the Fed not acting in the way I had positioned my book.

  • standard life super clean platform fund pricing

    standard life super clean platform fund pricing

    Schroders and Threadneedle are among the first group of fund houses to offer ‘super clean’ share classes to advisers through the Standard Life platform.