FCA valuation rules to see more property funds suspend trading
Regulations will require suspension if there is material uncertainty about 20% of fund’s holdings
Regulations will require suspension if there is material uncertainty about 20% of fund’s holdings
Investors summarise what has changed since banking system entered meltdown in September 2008
Closed unconstrained fund range was available to retail investors despite complex derivatives and currency swaps
Unease comes as Gam freezes Tim Haywood’s absolute return bond fund
Investors in Neil Woodford’s flagship equity income fund have now lost money over the last three years, as 2018 brings more hardships for one of the UK’s favourite star managers.
With Neil Woodford’s equity income fund continuing to shrink amid hits to his holdings, investors and analysts are again questioning whether unquoted investments in an open-ended fund are a square-peg round-hole situation.
Celebrity fund manager Neil Woodford has been forced to cut his stake in Atom Bank after suffering more than £1bn in client redemptions this year.
Mismatches between the liquidity of open-ended investment funds’ assets and their redemption profiles could lead to “fire sales” to meet redemption requests in times of market stress, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) has warned.
Jupiter’s Jason Pidcock has begun 2018 in a more defensive frame of mind and has been bulking up the liquidity of his Asian Income fund in case of a “mini-credit crunch”.
On 22 August, doorstep lender Provident Financial hit investors with a devastating triple-whammy – a profit warning (its second in a matter of months), an FCA investigation into its credit card subsidiary Vanquis Bank and the resignation of disgraced CEO Peter Crook.
Jupiter’s respected Merlin team of multi-managers has sounded a warning on exchange-traded fund (ETF) liquidity, as part of a downbeat series of predictions for global markets.
“As a total return manager it is not the volatility that kills you it is the sheer drop,” said David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments at Rathbone Unit Trust Management.