Investment manager AUMs hold steady
Invesco, Virtus and AllianceBernstein share their latest figures
Alliance Bernstein
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Alliance Bernstein bolsters Iberian distribution team
With hire of 20-year Franklin Templeton alum
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FE Fundinfo’s top 5 ESG funds
Mirabaud, Kames Capital, ClearBridge, AllianceBernstein and Janus Henderson ranked best Click through the slides below to see what they had to say.
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Exiting JPM bond head makes parting shot at industry
Private banker David Saab will join Generali and industry titan Peter Kraus at new low-cost investment manager
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Top rated small asset manager outperforms large peer
Scope’s top small asset manager Comgest outperforms group’s top large manager Kepler-Fonds, according to Morningstar data
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China A-shares inclusion set to light ESG fuse
The opening of the China A-shares market to foreign investors provides a window for China-focused funds to push ESG criteria into greater prominence in the world’s second largest economy.
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China A-shares pick of the litter for European investors
In the year of the dog shares of companies based on the Chinese mainland are set to emerge as leaders of the pack for investors in China as the world’s second largest economy enters the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in May. But European investors have already begun to move.
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Opportunities for US equities despite negative sentiment
The top European US equity funds returned between 15.14% to 25.63% over the sector average since US president Donald Trump took office in 2017, according to FE Analytics. But negative sentiment is leading many fund selectors to pull out the asset class.
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US equity fund managers pin hopes on Trump
US equity fund managers believe the S&P 500 can continue to add to a 26% rise over the past year. But barring good news to come out of Washington, there is little to cheer about for expensive US equities.
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Bitcoins – passing fad or new era of investment?
Bitcoins have attracted a tremendous amount of noise this year and are now firmly in the mainstream. But are cryptocurrencies a passing fad? Or should investors be paying attention?
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ANALYSIS: Has German election killed the European spring?
Many fund managers dismissed the historical German election results as “insignificant for markets”. But they fail to take into account the fact that these elections have upended the status quo, possibly triggering a reversal of recent political trends.
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ANALYSIS: It is time for active managers to leave benchmarks behind
Benchmarks are a vital part of the asset management sector. Funds are measured against them, bonuses worked out in relation to them and entire sectors of the industry predicated upon them. But, if recent trends are extrapolated outwards, the days of the benchmark in its current form should be numbered.