Legg Mason subsidiary Western Asset is launching two flexible fixed income funds for investors seeking returns from bonds in the current low rate environment while looking for some protection from principal losses.
Lombard Odier Investment Managers has broadened the product range it offers through its partnership with ETF Securities by listing a GBP-hedged share class of its Global Corporate Bond Fundamental ETF on the London Stock Exchange.
As Matthews Asia launches an Asia ex Japan Dividend Fund, chief investment officer and portfolio manager Robert Horrocks dispels headline fears over the future of economic growth in China.
Fixed income has been a dark place to live in the past couple of years but making active currency decisions proves there is light at the end of the tunnel – it is not just Amundi’s Lotfi Ben Lazrak holding a touch.
If you had invested all your cash in dollars as a euro-based investor this year, you would have earned a better return than if you had emulated the MSCI World. Moreover, equity returns seem to have become completely tied to exchange rate movements.
ETF Securities has reported a three-fold increase in ‘retail’ investors looking to hedge their currency exposure since the start of the year.
Emerging markets remain low down on wealth managers’ list of things to buy. But, judging by the news flow this week, they are now quite as low down as they once were and, for some, they are beginning to move much higher.
China and Greece are merely distractions, says Liontrust’s John Husselbee, and investors should be focusing on the US interest rate headline event.
Fund manager sentiment on emerging markets and energy stocks has hit a new low, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s August Fund Manager Survey.
There has been a lot of conventional wisdom bandied about over the past few days in relation to China’s loosening of the renminbi peg.
Brooks Macdonald has relaunched its multi-asset fund range, introducing three new currency share classes to help drive the growth of the firms international offering.
Coram Asset Management has finalised the details of its three flagship funds as the firm kicks off its 2015 expansion drive
