Financial services giant Standard Life Investments (SLI) has suspended all trading in its UK Real Estate Fund following an increase in redemption requests, triggering share sales in property and asset management companies.
In today’s era of low interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and economic uncertainty, most people are faced with either low returns or high risk on their investments. For this reason, interest in alternatives – with their ability to diversify investments, reduce risk and provide uncorrelated returns – has grown significantly in recent years, according to…
For the next five years investors with multi asset portfolios need to be thinking in terms of a 2.5-3.0% real rate of return and even then they will need to hold a lot more high risk assets, according to Pictet Asset Management.
Manulife Asset Management, the investment management arm of Canada’s Manulife Financial Corporation, has announced plans to expand across Europe and has boosted its operations in the UK.
Generali Investments Deutschland (GID) has been merged into Generali Investments, as part of the group’s strategy to streamline its global asset management operations.
A year after it was launched, the Irish Collective Asset Management Vehicle (Icav) has registered 157 new funds and recorded inflows of €8.4bn (£6.6bn, $9.5bn).
The EU has launched an investigation into the barriers blocking the distribution of Ucits and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in a bid to increase the take up of the products across its 28 member states.
Rock-bottom interest rates and plummeting consumer confidence saw a big drop in net sales of Ucits funds in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest figures published by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (Efama).
European exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors caught off-guard by the volatility at the start of the year, sheltered assets in traditional safe havens such as gold, according to analysis by Morningstar.
BMO Global Asset Management has launched the BMO Global Equity Market Neutral Fund.
Irish Funds, which represents the international fund community in Dublin, saw strong growth in the number of new Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in 2015 and expects that trend to continue.
Vaqar Zuberi, head of research at Mirabaud Asset Management, talks about the benefits of having alternative investments in portfolios.
