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Following the stabilisation of the global economy, Barings' flagship asset allocation product, the Baring Dynamic Asset Allocation (DAA) Fund, increased its risk profile in the final quarter of last year, taking equity holdings up from around 30% at the end of the third quarter of 2012 to 43%.
15 Jan 2013
Mario Draghi may have calmed fears among institutions about the ability of Eurozone states to meet their bills, but the financial repression necessary to buy indebted countries breathing room has put the problem of low interest rates near the forefront of large allocators' minds, new research finds.
05 Dec 2012
European fund sellers seem to be using fixed income products to gain entry to both retail and institutional buyers - slaking their shared thirst for yield - but the distributors are then unveiling very different kinds of strategies, depending on the client type.
16 Nov 2012
Investors do well in considering asset diversification focused on risk, not simply traditional asset or geographic allocation.
28 Sep 2012
Tristan Hanson, head of asset allocation at Ashburton, says more certainty about European and US growth prospects is required before equity indices break out of their trading ranges of the past year and a half.
17 Sep 2012
The popularity of the strategy of ‘multi-asset' has sparked an intense sales war in one of the few ‘hot' spaces of European asset management, but it has also initiated a recruitment race to fill teams with talented people.
10 Sep 2012
The practice of ‘sell discipline' should be exactly that - a ‘discipline' that investors follow strictly, even if it is painful - and even if in retrospect, it sometimes seems very painful.
06 Sep 2012
Schroders has hired two senior analysts to its multi-asset investment and portfolio solutions team, after recently losing its diversified growth fund manager Michael Spinks to Investec Asset Management.
03 Sep 2012
Schroders has hired two senior analysts to its multi-asset investment and portfolio solutions team, after recently losing its diversified growth fund manager Michael Spinks to Investec Asset Management.
03 Sep 2012
Trading any financial market is challenging and requires a particular set of skills to achieve success - foreign exchange is no exception.
31 Aug 2012
A strengthening Swiss franc might have hurt the country's exporters, but it helped its fund market hit new asset peaks of nearly CHF 700bn in July, after it already reached a five-year high in June.
20 Aug 2012
Schroders has won approval to distribute the fourth fund in its multi-asset range in Germany and Austria, offering set distributions to investors there at a time they are increasingly starved of yield.
16 Aug 2012
J.P.Morgan Asset Management's global liquidity department has hired Peter Pergovacz for German and Austrian sales, however he takes on the role in a climate so challenging for European cash funds that some managers, including at J.P. Morgan, have capped inflows.
07 Aug 2012
Hamburg-based manager Aquila Capital has extended its €1.2bn risk parity fund range with a new portfolio as allocators increasingly consider volatility of assets, not just their returns, when buying funds.
06 Aug 2012
Fidessa has become the latest investment software vendor to expand the reach of its multi-asset activities, as it was selected by broker Newedge for its global equity and derivatives trading.
24 Jul 2012
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Strong demand for emerging market debt and equity assets should remain, according to experts in the field.
Events
A selection of key moments caught on camera from InvestmentEurope's recent Pension Fund Forum in Zurich have been published.
A selection of key moments caught on camera from InvestmentEurope's recent Fund Selector Forum in Geneva have been published.
