Blackrock expands global bonds range
Duration on the ‘go-anywhere’ fund will initially be around two years
Author: Sonia Rach
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Royal London AM intermediary inflows increase 33%
Funds under management reach £117bn
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Can India lure investors back in?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India is an ‘elephant that’s starting to run’
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Charles Stanley shifts platform fees up closer to Hargreaves
D2C investment platform had been considered one of the industry’s cheaper offerings
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Hargreaves raises Brexit fears as founder backs ‘no deal’
Peter Hargreaves pans Brexit negotiations as the investment platform publishes its annual results
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Volatility could hit entrenched DFM and adviser relationships
Advice firms could become more discriminatory in their wealth manager due diligence when the economic cycle shifts
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Blackrock beats Vanguard in passive ratings
Blackrock’s iShares has fended off Vanguard to retain the top spot in FE’s latest Passive Crown ratings list.
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SJP drops Aberdeen Standard as ethical manager
A sustained period of underperformance has prompted St James’s Place (SJP) to drop Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and appoint Impax Asset Management to run its £286m (€320m, $375m) ethical fund.
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Duration outperforms despite rate hike concerns
Long duration funds outperformed in the second quarter of 2018, despite investors’ ongoing concerns around interest rates.
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Trade war fears prompt equities cull
Fund managers have slashed their global equity allocations to the lowest level since November 2016, spooked by fears of a trade war.
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Blackrock and Schroders frontrunners for £109bn Lloyds mandate
Asset managers Blackrock and Schroders are the rumoured frontrunners to oversee £109bn ($144.3bn, €123.5bn) for Lloyd’s Banking Group (LBG), after its contract with Standard Life Aberdeen was terminated earlier this year.
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DFMs face safe haven dilemma on US trade war
Discretionary fund managers say asset classes rather than geographies will be the best source of safety if the US unleashes a full-blown trade war as Bank of England simulations show the geographic scope of rising tariffs.