LGIM

DO WE REALLY NEED BANKS?

Legal & General IM's Ben Gill expects the Bank of England may be forced to intervene to weaken sterling as it explores other forms of QE.

Legal & General Investment Management's strategic bond manager Richard Hodges is sticking by his gilt exposure even though he sees 'little value' in the asset class.

Fidelity and Legal & General IM (LGIM) have given their support to Vince Cable's proposals to clamp down on boardroom pay and push for greater transparency.

An end may be in sight to the daily volatility which confounded investors last year, according to Ben Gill, manager of the £509m Legal & General Global Macro Themes fund.

Manager of £173m UK Alpha trust uses barbell approach to find unloved value and growth ideas against volatile backdrop and macro headwinds.

ON BONDS

As the deadline to RDR draws ever closer, Legal & General Investments managing director Simon Ellis talks to Kyle Caldwell about plans to expand the group's multi-asset suite and the inevitable rise of outsourcing.

LGIM is set to change the name and investment objective of its £487m Diversified Absolute Return Trust and move it out of the Absolute Return sector.

Michel Canoy, fund manager of FIT and MMIT at LGIM, examines the state of today's bond markets and looks at what investors can do to negotiate volatility as world order unravels.