Tracker
02 April 2012
Standard Life Investments (SLI) has handed its tracker fund range to passive investment house Vanguard Asset Management as it looks to focus on its active fund offering.
13 February 2012
Net retail sales of tracker funds hit a record high of £1.9bn last year, up some £200m on 2010, according to the Investment Management Association (IMA).
31 October 2011
Leading funds and the ABI are working on proposals to prevent newly listed companies from entering the FTSE 100 or other leading indices until after a three-month cooling-off period.
15 August 2011
Sales of funds of funds reached record highs in the first half of 2011, the Investment Management Association (IMA) has said.
20 July 2011
BlackRock is to launch two passively-managed funds of funds investing in a selection of the firm's equity and fixed income tracker funds.
23 June 2011
Vanguard has launched the LifeStrategy range, a suite of five fund of index funds with low annual management charges.
03 June 2011
David McCraw, manager of the Edinburgh UK and US Tracker trusts, explains why passive strategies work well for investment trusts.
13 May 2011
Tracker funds reported their highest ever net retail sales in Q1, although inflows into ethical products were below recent levels, according to IMA figures.
10 February 2011
Tracker funds have seen the highest net retail sales since 2000, totalling £1.2bn last year compared with £406m in 2009, according to the IMA.
17 May 2010
Tracker funds experienced their highest ever outflows during the first quarter of this year, according to the Investment Management Association.
11 May 2010
Assets under management within fund of funds have reached a record level of £46.5bn, according to the IMA.
06 April 2010
Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has awarded three HSBC Global Asset Management tracker funds ‘AAA’ ratings.
17 December 2009
Standard & Poor’s has awarded four HSBC Global Asset Management tracker funds an AAA rating, including the recently merged American Index portfolio.
08 August 2008
Fund of funds under management continue to grow despite the credit crunch and Q2 saw a net inflow of ...
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