Bermuda-listed Lazard Asset Management has launched an emerging markets managed volatility strategy. The Ucits fund aims to produce “stable” equity...

Sweden’s state pension fund Första AP-fonden, or AP1, has appointed Kristin Magnusson Bernard as chief executive, after her predecessor was...

Morningstar has put Franklin Templeton and Legg Mason ‘under review’ following the merger announced this week. Morningstar is digesting what...

High yield debt aided stock lending revenues at Aberdeen Standard Investments last year, according to the firm’s securities lending specialist....

Specialist fund administrator IQ-EQ has acquired US-based alternatives investor services provider Blue River Partners. The acquisition will let Blue River...

Real estate investor Hines has bought a mixed residential/office development in Amsterdam’s former shipping docklands, now an area of regeneration....

Ahead of its launch in January, Funds Europe discussed Singapore’s VCC framework with panels in Frankfurt and Paris. Participants:Fumin Feng...

Annie Shum, institutional business deputy head at CSOP Asset Management, examines the institutionalisation and internationalisation of China’s capital market, setting...

Gillian Tan, executive director, financial markets development department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, explains how it studied and adapted...

Franklin Templeton is to buy Legg Mason – a deal that will create an asset manager with over $1 trillion...