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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is spending to scoop up some of the world's least popular assets.

SWIP has launched its third multi-manager vehicle for duo Mark Harries and Simon Wood, the Optimal Multi-Asset fund.

In recent months, the corporate bond market has been firmly in positive territory. Relevant indices have risen to their highest levels of 2009.

Pothier-managed HSBC fund is eighth out of 86 vehicles in peer group over three years

Positive net retail sales over seven consecutive months show investors are shifting back towards sector

Swip's Gerry Ferguson has started to use cash reserves, purchasing a £260m property portfolio from Aviva Investors.

Increasing optimism over the future direction of the economy helped propel the UK equity market to a record quarter.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) has made a further hire to its global bond team, with the appointment of James Taylor as investment director, government bonds.

The European equity market rally shows no signs of abating. Bulls are in the ascendency, with their appetite for risk sending stock indices to new highs for the year in September. Banks have led the charge, as a number of lenders reported excellent quarterly...

Swip has hired former Old Mutual head of fixed income and global macro Andrew Tunks as its interim director of fixed income.