Multi-Asset

Architas CIO Caspar Rock has predicted 2012 will be another "bumpy year" with rising equity markets until the second quarter, when there could be another sell-off.

Aberdeen Asset Management is set to consolidate its multi-manager range, run by co-heads of MM Graham Duce and Aidan Kearney.

Baring Asset Management has hired Matthew Whitbread to work on the multi-asset team in Boston.

Close Asset Management fixed income head Mark Parry has joined Aberdeen as a senior investment management within its multi-asset team.

Volatile market conditions have presented a unique opportunity to gain exposure to assets previously considered "toxic", according to David Coombs, head of multi-asset management investments at Rathbones.

Aviva Investors' Justin Onuekwusi has increased his exposure to risk assets across his multi-asset portfolios in recent months, including taking his first positions in high yield debt.

Rathbone Unit Trust Management is preparing to add another product to its multi-asset range for David Coombs to appeal to the at-retirement market, Investment Week understands.

Octopus Investments has bolstered its multi-manager suite with two launches, adding a global absolute return vehicle and an emerging markets fund.

Multi-asset veteran David Jane is running a bias towards gold and index-linked bonds following the resolution to the eurozone debt crisis, warning the move by EU leaders will stoke inflation.

PIMCO has launched a Global Multi-Asset fund for chief executive Mohamed El-Erian.