HSBC Global Asset Management and Lloyd George Management have soft-closed their popular frontier markets strategies as the asset class sees a surge in inflows, Investment Week can reveal.
Multi-asset managers have begun to add exposure to emerging market debt (EMD) after yields on dollar-denominated debt rose above those on junk bonds for the first time since 2005.
ETF flow data from iShares reveals investors have been selling equities and buying bonds in the first quarter of the year, with the five top-selling ETFs all belonging to the fixed income space.
Standard Life Investments' EM managers Alistair Way and Mark Vincent are looking to stocks in the ‘fragile five' countries to generate performance in their funds.
Cofunds' chief executive David Hobbs has told Investment Week the platform has not written off plans to introduce investment trusts to the platform, and may look to include them in future.