Funds Global MENA, Author at Funds Europe

ROUNDTABLE: Intelligent tracking comes of age (part 1)

The popularity of ETFs is booming and providers are having to supply unique and clever products to cope with demand....

Record’s fund to capitalise on views about euro’s viability

A specialist currency manager has launched a fund intended to generate positive performance over periods of stress in the Eurozone....

Financial sustainability key to better returns

Socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios failed to provide sufficient downside risk throughout the crisis, but Pictet Asset Management found that...

Quant models must adapt to strange times

Quantitative investment models must have the power to adapt to unusual circumstances, such as conditions after the financial crisis or...

Solvency II will transform insurers’ asset allocation

Europe's Solvency II regime will transform the way insurers decide their asset allocation when the regulation comes into force on...

Greece needs to default, but not yet

Greece should go ahead and default - but only once other peripheral economies and European banks have been allowed to...

ETF investors bank on gold and copper

Investors in exchange-traded funds expect gold and copper to yield the strongest returns over the next year. According to a...

Invest in high yield, says Barings/Schroders

Fund management houses Baring Asset Management and Schroders are advocating investment in high-yield bonds. Both issued separate press notices today,...

Investors to increase long-short Ucits allocation

Eighty-two percent of investors plan to increase their allocation to Ucits hedge funds in Q3 this year, with long-short equity...

iShares launches EM debt ETF

BlackRock's iShares business has launched a local currency emerging market debt exchange-traded fund (ETF) following 'sustained' demand from investors for...