Active managed funds
25 January 2012
The Investment Management Association (IMA) has launched its fourth managed sector, Mixed Investment 0-35% Shares, after 13 funds submitted applications to join the group.
04 January 2012
The IMA has re-launched its Managed sectors with new names and definitions, apart from the Mixed Investment 0-35% Shares sector which has been delayed.
15 December 2011
Nigel Legge's new firm Vinculum is intending to launch a second fund investing in US equities next year.
10 October 2011
The Active Managed sector has suffered from market volatility in the short term, but managers have held their nerve.
01 June 2011
Octopus Investment Management has become the latest fund management group to voice its concern over the IMA’s plans to overhaul the Managed sectors. Chief investment officer and head of multi-manager Lothar Mentel explains why the IMA has missed a valuable opportunity.
20 May 2011
Investors looking for low-cost solutions should not automatically go for the new semi-actively managed, open-ended funds, writes Charles Stanley's Stephen Peters.
20 May 2011
The closest we get to a really big argument in the world of investment is when passive is pitted against active management.
21 April 2011
PIMCO has put forward a SEC filing for the launch of an exchange traded version of Bill Gross' Total Return fund, the world's largest bond fund, CNBC has reported.
11 March 2011
Maria Merricks investigates the introduction of low-cost actively managed funds.
03 March 2011
Schroders is this month launching the UK Core fund, the first in a suite of low cost actively-managed products, for Richard Buxton's UK equity team.
11 February 2011
The IMA's Absolute Return sector could be linked to the Managed sectors and broken down into risk profiles, according to director of markets.
11 February 2011
The track record of active managers is being dragged down by the growing number of quasi-tracker funds in their peer group, according to recent research from the Yale School of Management.
26 November 2010
Alastair Mundy, manager of the Investec Cautious Managed fund, believes lowly valued blue-chip equities are possibly the best hedge against any future economic or market uncertainty.
01 October 2010
The RDR seems to have fired the starting pistol on the race for passive – new ETFs are launched almost daily.
16 September 2010
We ask industry figures.... Are low-cost tracker funds and ETFs a serious long-term threat to active management?
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