The European bond investor's world has completely changed thanks to the crisis, finds Fiona Rintoul. But there still are pockets of value and safety.
The European bond investor's world has completely changed thanks to the crisis, finds Fiona Rintoul. But there still are pockets of value and safety.
Exchange-traded products (ETPs) had their best start to a year on record with $67.2 billion (€50 billion) in net new assets during the first three months of 2012, according to Blackrock's ETP landscape report. Inflows were 50% higher than in the previous quarter and 57% higher than in the first quarter of 2011.
S&P Capital IQ said it had re-classified several hundred asset allocation funds because “other peer-group providers had failed to take full account of exposure to non-equity risk assets”.
JP Morgan Asset Management has won a mandate to manage an active global bond portfolio for Leicestershire County Council, a UK local authority.
Aberdeen Asset Management attracted net inflows of £1.4 billion (€1.7 billion) in the first two months of the year, according to a trading update in advance of its interim results for the six months to March 31.
Risk system vendors tell Funds Europe what the major risk-based challenges for fund manager are and how prepared they are to provide support. Compiled by Nicholas Pratt.
Many complications are involved with servicing physical ETFs that do not apply to synthetic ones. George Mitton reports.
Fund issuers will have to make a significant change to how they normally settle if they subscribe to Luxembourg's new central securities depository, finds Nick Fitzpatrick.
ING Investment Management has revealed mandate wins with Dutch health insurer CZ and Monuta, a funeral and insurance company, worth nearly €1 billion.
Principal Investment Management launched an investment-grade corporate bond fund last week that offers monthly income and targets an annual yield of 5% after fees.
