Investment

Vestra Wealth has hired three investment managers, all specialising in global multi-asset portfolios, from UBS and Julius Baer.

Lawrence Gosling with Hollie Briggs of Loomis, Sayles & Company

Eagle Asset management's US equities manager Ed Cowart has called on investors to not ditch energy stocks, after the price of Brent crude oil plunged towards a six-year low.

Lawrence Gosling with Matthew Eagan of Loomis, Sayles & Company

Demographics continue to drive care home fund inflows

Old Mutual Global Investors' head of equities Richard Buxton has said he is 'deeply sceptical' of the impact quantitative easing will have on the eurozone.

Looking beyond gold’s weak points

Architas and technology firm BirthStar has launched seven retail funds that follow an age-based strategy more commonly associated with default auto-enrolment (AE) pension funds.

South-African firm Fundhouse has launched a fund ratings service for UK financial advisers, offering what it says are wholly unbiased and impartial comments on well-known funds.

Magnus Peterson, head of the collapsed Weavering hedge fund that took £354m of investor cash, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail after being found guilty of several offences.