Morningstar fund managers of the year announced
Nigel Bolton has scooped the European equity Morningstar fund manager of the year award for his silver-rated BGF European and BGF European Focus funds, managed at BlackRock.
Nigel Bolton has scooped the European equity Morningstar fund manager of the year award for his silver-rated BGF European and BGF European Focus funds, managed at BlackRock.
BlackRock, Threadneedle and Axa are among the managers to have had their funds upgraded by Morningstar following the latest round of ratings updates.
Emerging market funds magnetised investment in January with some fund categories enjoying record monthly inflows, Morningstar data shows.
Total AUM for the investment company industry has exceeded £100bn for the first time, according to analysis by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC).
Pimco funds were among the most attractive in 2012, with three appearing in Morningstar’s top 10 long-term funds by net inflows.
On the face of it the arrival of yet another new ETF provider is not good news and goes against the trend of providers closing products, with at least two providers already up for sale.
European investors continued to pour money into bond funds last month, according to Morningstar, despite a continued rise in the popularity of equity portfolios.
Morningstar has taken the lead on resolving another ‘unintended consequence’ of RDR, one that you may or may not have considered.
After two-and-a-half years at Morningstar, Richard Romer-Lee and Nigel Whittingham are to leave the company.
That investors are still flocking to fixed income is nothing new, but what funds they are using to access this asset class warrants further analysis.
Mixed-asset funds across Europe attracted 2.5bn of inflows in July, bringing year-to-date sales to 13.5bn, according to latest fund data from Morningstar.
According to Morningstar’s latest fund flow research, European investors heavily sold out of equities in favour of fixed income funds during the second quarter of the year.