Old mutual asset managers
26 April 2012
Old Mutual said the merger of its two UK asset management businesses could result in job losses – but denied the move is a "cost-cutting" exercise.
26 April 2012
Old Mutual is unifying its two UK asset management businesses, Old Mutual Asset Managers UK (OMAM UK) and Skandia Investment Group (SIG), into a single business with the view to rebrand under one name.
23 April 2012
Old Mutual Asset Managers' Christine Johnson, manager of the £483m Corporate Bond fund, asks whether investors would be sensible to hold 'risk on' and 'risk off' fixed income assets in the same portfolio.
30 January 2012
Bond heavyweights have begun shorting UK gilts ahead of an expected correction, warning yields have reached ‘extreme’ lows.
23 January 2012
OMAM's Christine Johnson explains why low growth and gradual disinflation will be good for fixed cashflows, and what this means for corporate bond investors.
06 January 2012
Old Mutual Asset Managers' bond fund manager Stewart Cowley has warned investors in gilt funds face major headwinds in 2012, after falls in yields to record lows left them with little protection from coupons if prices start to come down.
24 October 2011
Paul Feeney is set to join Old Mutual's Long-term Savings divison (LTS) as chief executive of asset management.
17 October 2011
Bond fund manager has made a number of changes since returning to Kames.
10 October 2011
F&C Thames River bond duo Peter Geikie-Cobb and Paul Thursby have warned German bunds are ‘extraordinarily’ overvalued and in line for a major correction.
06 September 2011
Old Mutual Asset Managers has poached RLAM's European star fund manager Kevin Lilley to head up the group’s £71m European Equity fund.
11 July 2011
Despite last month’s significant price movements in US treasuries, yields are still below the levels seen at the end of last year.
28 June 2011
Old Mutual Asset Manager’s Stewart Cowley and Fidelity’s Trevor Greetham have clashed over the success of the measures being undertaken to aid the recoveries in the UK and US.
03 June 2011
Old Mutual’s Richard Watts believes soaring commodity prices are causing the sluggish growth seen in the UK and US in Q1.
12 May 2011
Old Mutual Asset Managers' head of fixed income Stewart Cowley has slammed the US for failing to rein in its growing budget deficit, warning it risks ingraining inflation in the nation's psyche.
12 May 2011
Old Mutual saw a net outflow of £2.6bn in the first quarter of the year, although assets under management edged up and Skandia saw growth in new business volumes.
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