Dan Jones
16 May 2012
Sterling has fallen against the dollar today after a dovish quarterly inflation report from the Bank of England cut growth forecasts and left the door open to further QE.
16 May 2012
Butterfield Bank's David Stewart has been named as CIO at Santander AM following the departure of John Berman, who is moving to a similar position at Thomson Miller Investment.
16 May 2012
Billionaire investor George Soros sold out of Google in the first quarter of the year but built positions in US financials, latest filings reveal.
16 May 2012
With the spot price of gold at year lows even as equity markets grow nervous over the eurozone once again, analysts are divided on the precious metal’s prospects as a safe haven.
16 May 2012
Vanguard Asset Management has launched its first UK exchange-traded fund range with a five-strong offering of physical ETFs.
15 May 2012
AXA IM has promoted Henry Lowson to become lead manager of its £54m AXA Framlington UK Smaller Companies fund.
15 May 2012
Richard Saunders, chief executive of the Investment Management Association, is to step down at the end of 2012.
15 May 2012
Neptune has named Andy Larkin as head of strategic partners as it restructures its sales team following the departure of John Lester.
14 May 2012
US markets have fallen to three-month lows during trading today as the eurozone worries that resurfaced last week show little sign of subsiding.
14 May 2012
Fund groups are scrambling to develop risk-rated propositions ahead of the RDR deadline at the end of this year, with major houses including Jupiter planning how to enter the space.
10 May 2012
BlackRock has promoted Ben Edwards to co-manage its Corporate Bond fund alongside Simon Blundell.
10 May 2012
Standard & Poor’s has said a ‘perfect storm’ may be brewing in corporate credit markets if a global economic downturn combines with credit rationing to thwart corporations’ $46trn refinancing needs.
09 May 2012
America Movil, the telecoms firm owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, is seeking to up its stake in Dutch company KPN as a starting point for expansion into Europe.
09 May 2012
Elena Shaftan, manager of the Jupiter Emerging European Opportunities fund, says Russian equities are trading at a 50% discount to other Global Emerging Markets.
09 May 2012
The return of Greek political risk should lead European equity investors to consider "defensives at a reasonable price", according to the global equity research team at UBS.
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