Alternative investment boutique Future Capital Partners is to launch a Guernsey-listed income fund aiming to pay 7% from a portfolio of government-backed infrastructure projects.
The news a number of public sector unions are balloting their membership for strike action over reforms to pension schemes will see the coalition government face its first serious test of resolve, and importantly its first significant foray into major...
TIME TO DITCH INVESTMENT TRUSTS?
The fund management industry is doing its best to dig the IMA out of the rather embarrassing hole it constructed for itself with its alphabet approach to the Managed sectors. At last, common sense is in danger of breaking out.
Managers from HSBC, Aberdeen, Lazard and other top groups give us their views.
JPM, HSBC and Schroders among first big groups to look to low-cost active fund space.
That the IMA was surprised by the furore over its classifications of the Managed sectors speaks volumes for the mess in which the trade body finds itself mired.
The shortlists have been published for the group of the year awards and the specialist investment categories at the annual Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards, in conjunction with FundsNetwork.