Concentration of GARS’ return drivers remains a worry – Fundhouse
Rating firm Fundhouse has reaffirmed its concerns about the breadth of return drivers within SLI’s GARS fund.
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Investors keep pouring money into GARS – is that a good idea?
The SLI GARS fund was the best-selling mutual fund in Europe in November, taking in €1bn in net new money. However, there are multi-strategy funds that perform much better.
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absolute return market saturation
Standard Life Investments calls its new Global Focused Strategies fund an “advanced fusion” of macro and micro capabilities, which makes it sound a bit like one of those new-fangled shampoos. But will it deliver a clean sweep for the group’s absolute return capabilities?
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Avivas Munro mulls low volatility fund
A month after joining Aviva Investors, the Standard Life GARS creator Euan Munro is planning the launch of a similar product.
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SLI tops net retail sales for 2013
The annual Pridham Report selects Standard Life as winning fund group 2013 as measured by net retail sales.
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Sorting innovation from proliferation
It's a well-trodden path to say there are no certainties with absolute return, and with upheaval in the retail fund sector comes a chance to reflect, reassess and forecast its fortunes.
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four fund groups primed
Shares in all four asset managers who reported yesterday have had a tasty one-year run, so is now the time to take profits, or is their bull run just beginning?
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Gars under fire as founder Munro leaves
Aviva Investors has poached Standard Life Investments GARS founder Euan Munro as its new CEO, prompting questions about the stability of the fund's team and potential outflows.
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A right time to revisit absolute return
Absolute return funds have tallied their highest sales for more than three years, a sign of caution in the face of equity market gains or recognition that certain strategies are finally proving their worth?
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gars in a world of its own but for how long
As at the end 2012, Standard Life GARS had AUM of £21.1bn, roughly the nominal GDP of Kenya or Yemen in one fund, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not going to grow further.
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slis alternatives assets up as gars balloons
Standard Life GARS had grown to a staggering £21.1bn at the end of 2012, with alternative strategies counting for more than one-fifth of Standard Life Investment's (SLI) total AUM.
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rise of real assets as fund giants
John Husselbee looks at the giant funds of just five years ago and how they are faring today before asking how investment trends will shape the top-ten giant funds of the future.