Don’t expect Japan’s QE to end anytime soon
Fund managers remain bullish on Japan’s corporate earnings growth as stagnant inflation seems highly unlikely to spur its central bank into unwinding quantitative easing for at least another two years.
Fund managers remain bullish on Japan’s corporate earnings growth as stagnant inflation seems highly unlikely to spur its central bank into unwinding quantitative easing for at least another two years.
Jupiter Asset Management CEO Maarten Slenderbroek has said “we can and must do better” on eliminating its 38% pay gap between male and female employees.
Jupiter Merlin has shaken up its allocation to emerging markets in its Growth and Worldwide Portfolios, opening a position in the Invesco Perpetual Asian fund, managed by William Lam.
Jupiter Asset Management does not need to be acquired, CEO Maarten Slenderbroek has reiterated, but acquiring “talented” businesses in specific areas is not out of the question either.
Jupiter says it is eyeing growth in global equity and outcome-orientated multi-asset strategies to continue diversifying its business as inflows more than quintuple, according to its annual results.
Jupiter Asset Management has appointed JP Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM) Talib Sheikh as head of its multi-asset strategy.
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is focusing part of its fixed income portfolio on global convertible bonds due to expectations of higher interest rates and a stronger equity market over the next 12 months, but fund selectors are only mildly interested in the asset class.
Assets at Jupiter soared past the £50bn mark in 2017 the firm’s latest trading update reveals.
As the new year gets underway, Tony Yousefian, senior fund analyst at FundCalibre, identifies five fund managers to watch in 2018.
As 2017 comes to an end, FE has listed the funds that advisers have favoured and shunned over the past year.
Raymond James is opening a branch in Oxford led by three former Brewin Dolphin wealth managers.
The former M&G Dividend fund manager Alex Odd has joined the chartered financial planning firm Fairstone, taking joint ownership of its portfolio management service.