Axa IM

AXA IM has hired a sell-side healthcare specialist as the permanent replacement for former Health fund manager Gemma Game, who left the group last year.

AXA Investment Managers has launched an investment strategy allocating to small- and mid-cap Chinese A-shares in an effort gain exposure to an untapped area of the market.

AXA Investment Managers has incorporated its structured finance assets into its fixed income arm as it reorganises the division.

Adrian Lowcock has joined AXA Wealth as head of investing after leaving his previous role at Hargreaves Lansdown in the summer.

AXA Investment Managers has hired former J.P. Morgan AM manager Bill Healey and former New Star manager Phil Roantree to boost its fixed income team.

Assets on AXA Wealth's Elevate platform rose 31% to £8.4bn in the first half of the year, as the wider business approached break-even point.

Gemma Game, manager of the £380m AXA Framlington Health fund, has resigned from the group, Investment Week can reveal.

AXA Investment Managers took in €12bn (£10.2bn) in net flows last year, well up on the €3bn taken in 2012, thanks to Framlington and its fixed income teams.

AXA Investment Managers has opened up 54 funds in its AXA World Funds Range to UK retail investors.

Fixed income managers are cutting back on duration after the risk-off environment seen at the start of 2014 pushed up government bond prices once again.