If you hold a resources fund, chances are it will be First State Global Resources or JPM Natural Resources, or maybe, if you like to be a bit alternative, Barings Global Resources – I dare you to tell me otherwise.
Sarasin and Partners has launched an emerging markets fund offering equal exposure across 19 of the 21 economies in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
From an investment point of view, emerging markets have had a fairly tough time in the past couple of years, with funds in the IMA’s Global Emerging Markets category returning on average 7% in the past year compared to 9.3% from the MSCI World Index.
Grant Peterkin is joining Lombard Odier’s global and emerging fixed income team following his departure from Ignis Asset Management last year.
First Trust has made its first foray into the European ETF market launching a range of Ucits-compliant offerings benchmarked against UK, US and emerging market equities indices.
Ryan Hughes, portfolio manager at Skandia, is to leave the firm after seven years to “move on to something new”, Portfolio Adviser can reveal.
BlackRock's Russ Koesterich gives advisers advice on how to combat the snails' paced global economy and surprisingly that doesn't have to mean abandoning bonds…
A long-held suspicion of financial services firms was confirmed by a senior Bank of England official last night as he revealed a 600% increase in UK regulation since 1979, comparing the tide of red tape to the country’s unwieldy tax system.
Neptune has announced it is closing four funds due to poor investor demand and high running costs.
As recently as last year, Americans were seen as the pariahs of the international financial services world, with many non-US banks unwilling to have them as clients because new US legislation, known as FATCA, meant that they came with onerous tax information reporting obligations.
You will have noticed the front page portraits of Margaret Thatcher on Tuesday, crumpled up and soggy from the rain; her features distorted not unlike the famous Spitting Image puppet.
European bond fund sales tumbled to a nine-month low in February at just 9.4bn, in line with a general trend, according to Lipper data.
