Funds Global MENA, Author at Funds Europe

ONSHORE TIES: Long-distance relationships

Guernsey is seeking greater ties with Luxembourg as the trend for dual fund structures emerges, finds Nick Fitzpatrick. Fiona Le...

ING IM mandate wins worth nearly €1 billion

ING Investment Management has revealed mandate wins with Dutch health insurer CZ and Monuta, a funeral and insurance company, worth...

Managers combine to create bond fund

PSigma Investment Management has started offering clients a bond fund that selects only securities expected to redeem by 2016. The...

iShares launches emerging market fixed income ETF

iShares has launched Europe’s “first” exchange-traded fund to target local-currency Asia emerging market sovereign debt. The iShares Barclays Capital EM...

Half of bonuses “beneath expectations”

A third of City workers in the financial sector were paid reduced bonuses, continuing the downward trend. Early reporting of...

Principal launches “unique” monthly income bond fund

Principal Investment Management launched an investment-grade corporate bond fund last week that offers monthly income and targets an annual yield...

Henderson SRI team resurfaces

The socially responsible investment (SRI) team that left UK-listed fund manager Henderson Global Investors in late 2011 has re-surfaced at...

Aberdeen appointed to manage Brazil funds

Aberdeen Asset Management will be the investment adviser to two Credit Suisse Brazil funds from April. The two funds are...

Pension funds run “economic” risk of sponsors

What else could be bad for pension funds as well as the current reign of volatility playing havoc with their...

Consultancy urges investors not to buy ten-year government bonds

Investment consultancy Towers Watson has warned against holding government bonds and inflation-linked bonds with about a ten-year maturity and downgraded...