Investment

Standard Life Investments has hired former Ignis manager Jonathan Fearon to manage its European Equity Growth fund.

Simon Redmond, director at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and Stuart Elliott, director at Platts, tell Investment Week how the future of global oil supply will be impacted as geopolitical risk threatens oil producers, and the bounty of US shale oil...

Platforms saw the rate of assets under administration (AUA) growth jump by almost a fifth in the third quarter of 2014, according to research from Fundscape.

Ratings agency FundCalibre has added six funds to its Elite Rating list after its inaugural investment committee meeting earlier this month.

Fewer than 20% of actively managed US large cap equity funds assessed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA ML) have outperformed their benchmarks so far this year, the lowest level in a decade.

A long Europe position has helped offset an otherwise "brutal year" for the Old Mutual Global Strategic Bond fund, according to manager Stewart Cowley.

Big on small

Markets may have been volatile as autumn approached, but the Smith & Williamson Enterprise fund has returned more than 3% over the three months to 3 November 2014, and beaten peers in the Targeted Absolute Return sector.

The Tenax Absolute Return Strategies fund, run by Church House Investment Management, was launched just before the financial crisis of 2008, but it has held up well during the subsequent market sell-offs because of its cautious approach.

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