For someone who does not run an income fund, Columbia Threadneedle’s Mark Westwood has a more-than-healthy respect for the dividend characteristics of companies in what has been an incredibly tough 2016 for UK equity managers
Columbia Threadneedle announced Friday it has decided to switch the pricing basis on its £1.4bn Threadneedle UK Property Authorised Investment Fund (PAIF) and Threadneedle UK Property Authorised Trust from offer to bid.
As Leigh Harrison puts mountaineering at the top of his to-do-list in retirement, can Columbia Threadneedle’s UK equities franchise continue to scale the dizzy heights without him?
Leigh Harrison, will step down from his role as head of equities, Europe at Columbia Threadneedle at the end of June.
Aberdeen Asset Management has appointed Campbell Fleming as global head of distribution.
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.
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.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ Leigh Harrison has handed control of Threadneedle UK Equity Income to Richard Colwell, the firm has announced.
Columbia Threadneedle has hired Neptune’s head of UK equities, Jeremy Smith away from Liberum to fill the post of head of UK equity research.
Conjecture over the timing of the first UK rate rise is becoming almost as routine as the industry’s misplaced adaptation to the ‘abnormal’ 0.5% rate presently in place.
Going short is one differentiating factor behind Chris Kinder’s extended alpha equity strategy fund and a skill not practised by many competitors in the UK All Companies sector.
Jupiter Asset Management has snagged Columbia Threadneedle Investment’s Nick Ring as its new global head of distribution.
