Managed funds

The number of finance professionals setting up their own investment management businesses is growing, according to Laven Partners.

HSBC Ucits AdvantEdge fund of hedge funds is due to launch at the end of November and will be available for investment from both retail and institutional investors.

Investors in the stricken Arch cru range face a further six to eight weeks wait to find out the value of the funds' assets.

Recent market swings have made it clear the rise and fall of our pensions or portfolios are directly proportionate to asset allocation. Investors need to pay more attention to how much of each market they have in their portfolio

PSigma Balanced Managed Fof head has negotiated the fund well through volatility

Changes are afoot that will likely lead to a sea change in money management. Core wealth management funds have flexible asset allocations and are designed to keep out of bad markets and stay in good ones

In a post-Great Moderation world, changes in the real economy have become a much bigger contributor to market volatility. Since March, this has worked in favour of investors as the global recession has shown signs of ending more quickly than first expected....

Notwithstanding the rallies that many markets have experienced over recent months, the current environment continues to offer a range of opportunities to multi-asset managers.

As the trend towards multi-manager/fund has gathered pace, there has been a premium on experienced teams with the ‘skills' to run these types of mandates. Perhaps the answer is a multi-multi/manager of manager of manager facility?

Henderson's Bill McQuaker, Schroders' Andrew Yeadon and Sarasin's David Vickers have been selected to run funds for IFA Foster Denovo's new investment company, Sequel.