PA ANALYSIS: Indices are poor but funds are poorer
Funds in the IMA sector failed to keep pace with the two major indices with positive Q2 numbers.
Funds in the IMA sector failed to keep pace with the two major indices with positive Q2 numbers.
Conditions remain positive for ongoing strength in the gold price depite its recent rapid ascent.
Standard & Poor’s has said the US could lose its AAA-rating within the next three months.
Schroders is to launch a third low-cost “alternative to passive investing”.
Schroders has delayed the launch of the Opus Commodity Fund, a Guernsey-domiciled investment trust.
Ilario Di Bon, head of institutional global equities at Fidelity, has joined Alliance Trust.
Bob Jolly has left UBS to take on a newly created position in Schroders fixed income team
Laxey has lost its bid to force changes at the UK’s largest investment trust.
If fund launches are a guide, investors are asking for a largely passive approach to UK exposure.
Fund managers are taking advantage of undervalued earnings multiples in the UK consumer sectors.
Schroders has launched an inflation hedged euro corporate bond fund.
Schroders’ head of UK equities Richard Buxton has outlined “comfort points” for UK investors.