Ignis

Rob Page is leaving Ignis to join Ardevora, the boutique set up by his former Liontrust colleagues Jeremy Lang and William Pattisson.

Ignis has revamped its Emerging Markets fund to allow the manager to take whole country bets rather than single stock positions.

Ignis has restructured its American Growth portfolio into a best ideas fund in an effort to boost performance and differentiate it from US tracker funds.

Negotiations to find a solution to the European sovereign debt crisis will end in a messy compromise that fails to resolve the peripheral solvency problem, says Stuart Thomson at Ignis Asset Management.

MPC SHOULD NOT RAISE RATES

Ignis Asset Management is launching an Absolute Return Government Bond fund at the end of March, targeting net returns of 2% to 3% a year in excess of cash.

The new Irish government could hit holders of bank debt with serious ‘haircuts', drying up bank funding and even derailing the European economic recovery, bond managers have warned.

Ignis is planning to launch a strategic bond fund for head of credit portfolio management Chris Bowie.

Ignis' Diamond Lee believes Asia will have a major inflation problem in the second half of the year, causing markets to become more risk averse.

Ignis has restructured its UK equity team resulting in the departure of the head of desk and four analysts from the team.