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People who expected European banks to offload asset management arms to meet mandated 9% tier one capital ratios by mid-2012 may be disappointed, as Credit Suisse analysts barely named such an action as likely among nine banks they highlighted in a report yesterday.
09 Dec 2011
Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management has outlined its main investment advice for 2012, including warning investors should not shelter too much in safe havens such as cash, debt or precious metals, because these may be "less safe than they appear".
08 Dec 2011
Standard & Poor's has put most of the eurozone's countries on credit watch negative, meaning they risk losing their top notch rating if the ratings agency decides no remedies have been made.
06 Dec 2011
DWS Investment has given a reason for mild optimism in its outlook for 2012, by noting US leading indicators are improving again, while useful replacements have emerged for those managers seeking to trim exposure to 'safe haven' debt.
05 Dec 2011
Within the eurozone, Germany is most indebted to France, when all the region’s lenders are ranked by how much they have loaned to Europe’s biggest economy.
02 Dec 2011
Global high yield fund managers feel the strength of corporate balance sheets has reduced the risk of rising defaults in the next few years, barring a few large problem companies, according to a review by data and analytics firm S&P Capital IQ.
02 Dec 2011
AXA Investment Managers has registered its European short-duration high yield in Germany for local distribution. It is at least the second product the French management group has registered in the country this quarter.
02 Dec 2011
The yield investors receive for lending to Germany for 12 months has turned negative for first time in recent history, as high demand for safe harbours sends prices upwards.
01 Dec 2011
The Real Estate Credit Investments fund, run by Cheyne Capital, has taken a defensive stance in terms of geographic exposure and high cash holdings, given the deteriorating economic outlook for Europe.
30 Nov 2011
Allianz Global Investors has warned the mixture of global quantitative easing by governments and risk avoidance by investors has pushed fixed income instruments with medium- to long-term maturities to "significant overvaluation".
30 Nov 2011
The eurozone falling apart carries more risk of localised inflation than printing money to save it, while recent precedent for quantitative easing from America and the UK does not suggest immediate links to inflationary expectations, says Axa Investment Managers' fixed income chief investment officer.
28 Nov 2011
Sovereign debt risk and volatility have topped the list of risks investors are worrying about, but the danger of political meddling making investment goals unachievable is also an important concern, according to Allianz Global Investors' Autumn RiskMonitor survey.
28 Nov 2011
Tikehau Investment Managers, the French fixed income manager, has launched TK Rendement 2016, a dated bond fund targeting annual returns of 7% to maturity investing in euro-denominated corporate bonds.
25 Nov 2011
Hungary, the country seeking aid from the International Monetary Fund, has been cut to junk status with a negative outlook, despite having net debt to GDP ratios well below Italy and Greece.
25 Nov 2011
Some peripheral eurozone nations might call it ‘poetic justice'. Traders would no doubt call it a welcome relief. And Germans might call it a move of Realpolitik.
24 Nov 2011Regions
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Fund managers discuss the changee that may damage their offshore fund model, but not kill their industry.
Events
InvestmentEurope's country specific forum for France takes place in Paris on 22 May 2012.
InvestmentEurope's country specific forum for Italy takes place in Milan on 12 June 2012.
