Domestic reforms and global growth are opening India back up as an investor hotspot and Neptune India Fund manager Kunal Desai believes this is India’s new dawn and the recovery of its corporate earnings is just the beginning.
Investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown announced a major recruitment drive in its marketing team, while state-backed UK agency Nest poaches LV=’s head of pensions. Neptune hires former M&G head as a special adviser as Standard Life makes a round of promotions.
UK equity income managers are corrupting what is supposed to be a “safe sector” by taking too much dividend and capital risk, according to Neptune Investment Management chief executive Robin Geffen.
UK-based fund manager Neptune Investment Management is to launch a discretionary fund management business in partnership with Raymond James Investment Services under the moniker Equester Capital Management.
Old Mutual poaches ex-head of Aviva Life UK as its new customer champion czar, while Investec W&I promotes long-running executive for charities Louise Hall. Axa IM announces a casualty of its plan to merge its alternative solutions and structured finance teams as Neptune unveils a whole raft of changes to its US team.
Wednesday’s vote by the upper house of the Brazilian senate to impeach Dilma Rousseff is being seen as a significant step forward for the country, but could well be the end of the road for contrarian investors.
Retail investment platform Rplan saw a big increase in flows into emerging market funds over the last three months, with the notable exception of China-only investments.
For only the second time in its history the UK is to be led by a female prime minister. Old Mutual Wealth has appointed a chief risk officer, while UBS Asset Management has created a new sustainable and impact investing role.
Independent fund management company Neptune Investment Management has appointed a head of Switzerland as it looks to grow its business in the country.
Robin Geffen’s call for the Financial Conduct Authority to make the disclosure of active share mandatory is the latest shout in what is a growing clamour for better ways to provide evidence of what he refers to as ‘truly active’ management.
The world’s second largest economy looks poised for a sustainable period of economic growth and will be able to re-ignite it further, only if the Chinese authorities initiate big reform steps, said Douglus Turnbull, head of Chinese equities at U.K-based Neptune Investment Management.
Neptune Investment Management has signed a deal with a Hong Kong based investment boutique distributor in a bid to increase its sales in the Asia region.
