04/11/2016

Institutional investors drive German fund flows

Open-ended real estate and multi-asset funds saw the highest sales, receiving positive inflows of €0.9 billion and €0.4 billion respectively, while equity and bond funds reported outflows of €0.7 billion and €1.8 billion.

04/08/2016

Dunedin Enterprise to wind up

Dunedin announced its intention in February as it exited from its biggest holding CitySprint, making a 180 per cent return on its original £10m investment six years ago.

04/08/2016

Investors ‘dancing on a volcano’, says Carmignac

Saint-Georges said monetary policy alone could not solve the current problems and expectations of rate rises, notably in the US, were not the encouraging signs many investors believed them to be.

04/08/2016

Closet trackers v. ETFs: Go compare – if you can

Yesterday’s news that the FCA found strategy descriptions lacking in a handful of closet tracker funds is hardly a great surprise. Few managers would admit they charge full-on active rates for doing very little real work.