Multi-asset

The rising price of gold simply reaffirms investor scepticism about an apparent economic recovery and places the US dollar's position as the world's leading reserve currency further in doubt, F&C's Ted Scott says.

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.

Henderson New Star has appointed Ainslie McLennan to work alongside Marcus Langlands Pearse on the £635m New Star UK Property fund.

Multi-managers believe the equity rally still has further to go despite the strong recent run pushing markets towards pre-Lehman levels.

Tiburon Partners will launch its Ucits III absolute return Green fund next month, to be co-managed by Hexam Capital joint founder John Payne.

The commodities sector has endured quite a remarkable period since November last year, with demand for commodities rebounding strongly.

The necessity for reflation in today's market is a given, but the perceived success or failure by global authorities to revive their economies is an altogether different question, and one that is having a profound effect on investors' attitude to asset...

There has been a sea change in the climate for investing in equities since the beginning of the year. In January, credit spreads were pricing in a ‘Second Great Depression', banks were bust on mark-to-market accounting and companies had shut factories...

In a post-RDR investment world, exposure to index funds looks likely to expand, increasing competition in this space