Bonds

Wasps, an English professional rugby union club, has launched what it claims is the first retail bond to be issued by a sports club.

Paul Abberley, chief executive at Charles Stanley, is considering taking a more hands-on role at the business by becoming involved in the management of one of the group's funds.

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) fixed income manager Sajiv Vaid is to join Fidelity later this year, Investment Week can reveal.

Old Mutual Global Investors' fixed income director Stewart Cowley is to leave the group in June.

Central banks may resort to 'helicopter drop' measures to stave off the threat of deflation, according to Investec's Alastair Mundy.

Jupiter has reported £872m in net inflows for the first three months of 2015, its highest quarterly figure since its initial public offering in 2010.

Are markets sleepwalking into rate complacency?

'Ruling out any investment is intellectually lazy'

Foreigner investors have been selling UK gilts at a faster rate than at the peak of the financial crisis in 2009, ahead of an unpredictable general election.

With over €1trn of euro area debt maturing in one year paying a negative yield, Thomas Samson, portfolio manager at Muzinich & Co, analyses the options for bonds investors in Europe