IMA

Happy 15th Birthday, Investment Week! My how time flies… By coincidence it is also 15 years since we founded our multi-manager team at Rothschild.

The IMA has changed its Global Emerging Markets sector definition, which will now be based on FTSE or MSCI GEMs indices rather than World Bank definitions.

This week's panel discuss the future of corporate bonds going into 2010

Formula-defined risk and returns - without active management risk

As its name suggests, the UK equity income sector provides exposure to companies that pay above-average dividends (the criteria for inclusion in the IMA UK equity income sector is a dividend yield of at least 110% of the FTSE All Share index yield).

Investor keenness in sector pushes prices up sharply but long-term case remains intact

Top five funds in IMA Strategic Bond sector all return above 4% over one year against an average of 23.1%

Launched in February 2008, the £127m Jupiter India fund has significantly outperformed its peers in the IMA Specialist sector over the past year, up 100.4% to January 11, compared to the sector average of 40.4%.

Natural Resources vehicle beats sector average by 73.7% over past 12 months

Schroders CIO Alan Brown has joined the IMA board following a number of changes at the trade association.