Ucits

Castlestone Management is looking to expand its range of equity mandates with the launch of a specialist frontier emerging markets fund, as well as a UCITS version of its Next 11 fund.

One of India's largest asset management firms is bringing a UCITS-compliant Indian equity fund to UK investors in the late summer, hosted by T Rowe Price.

‘Idiotic' and ‘gratifying', are not adjectives commonly applied to financial markets, but they have been used recently to describe the state of FX rates.

Tony Stenning, head of UK retail at BlackRock, looks at the surge of new legislation set to hit UK investors.

The evolution of structured UCITS has seen collateralised investments come to the fore. Morgan Stanley's Sophie Barnett looks at how such plans have been adapted for the retail market.

Emma Louise Davidson, executive member of the UK Structured Products Association and Citi's head of cross-asset group for UK and Ireland, reveals how to pick the right structured product.

AXA's multi-manager firm Architas is planning to launch a series of Ucits ‘distributor' funds midway through this year as part of a push into Europe.

Sabre Fund Management is to launch a Ucits III absolute return fund of equity funds, designed to deliver a target return of 10%-15% per annum.

Charles Martyn-Hemphill and Will Kenney at Spencer House Capital Management (SHCM) are set to join JO Hambro Investment Management (JOHIM) in February.

The Treasury and the FSA are proposing to extend the regulator's powers to discipline firms who flout EU regulations or decisions made under UCITS IV.