fixed income

BlackRock's Daniel McKernan has joined Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) as head of European and UK credit within the fixed income team.

IRELAND IN NEED

There is a one in three chance the Bank of England will announce a further raft of QE in its February Inflation Report, says J.P. Morgan's Bob Michele.

Aegon is launching a retail share class for its Inflation Linked fund.

We round-up industry reaction to the Federal Reserve's announcement it will pump a further $600bn of stimulus into the US economy.

Former Threadneedle managers Peter Allwright and Stuart Frost have taken over management of the RWC Cautious Absolute Rate and Currency fund.

CURRENCY VIGILANTES

Standard Life Investments is planning to launch a fixed income version of its popular Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund.

Brevan Howard's Philippe Lespinard is joining Schroders in the newly created role of fixed income chief investment officer.

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