Multi-asset
Managed funds
The recent market downturn had negative consequences for many investors' portfolios. In an environment marked by severe macroeconomic stress and unprecedented volatility, both actively and passively managed investment strategies suffered. After a year...
23 November 2009
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Absolute Return
Jupiter is offering investors in Philip Gibbs' Financial Opportunities fund free switching into one or both of the manager's new Ucits III funds, which will launch ahead of schedule on 14 December.
20 November 2009
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Property
Skandia has appointed Cohen & Steers to manage its $300m Reits Global Property Securities fund in place of La Salle Investment Management, which had run the fund since its launch in 2005.
17 November 2009
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Managed funds
Beware of strategists wielding rulers. Decent third quarter GDP numbers have sent analysts scurrying off to increase their forecasts. We see this all too often, forecasts derived from extrapolating the newest trend, ratcheted up or down according to the...
16 November 2009
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Alternatives
The European Union is considering imposing tough new measures to curb the pay of private equity and hedge fund managers in a further clampdown on the sector.
13 November 2009
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Alternatives
Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers have been found not guilty of fraud.
11 November 2009
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Alternatives
GLG Partners will close the standard share class on its UK Select fund after reaching its £150m AUM capacity.
09 November 2009
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Absolute Return
The youthful absolute returns sector has had a meteoric rise in popularity, but what does absolute return actually mean?
09 November 2009
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