AEGON Asset Management discounts ethical and bond funds

AEGON Asset Management is to offer investors discounts on both its ethical funds and a range of its bond funds.

The move is part of a wider campaign aimed at highlighting AEGON Asset Management’s expertise in both the ethical and bond sectors, which includes funds managed by its award winning managers David Roberts and Philip Milburn.

The discount period begins on February 1, 2007 and runs to April 30, 2007. The discounted funds are the Ethical Equity, Ethical Corporate Bond, Global Bond, High Yield Bond and Investment Grade Bond funds.

The discounts will reduce the initial charge on the bond funds from 4.5% to 3% and from 5.5% to 3% on the Ethical Equity fund.

The campaign aims to build on AEGON Asset Management retail team’s record 2006, which was led by the success of its Sterling Corporate Bond, Ethical Corporate bond and Ethical Equity funds.

As part of the campaign Fixed Interest managers Philip Milburn and John McNeill will be hosting a IFA conference call on Tuesday February 6, at 11am to discuss the micro and macro outlook for the global bond market in 2007.

Head of Sales (Retail) Steve Kenny says: “The campaign aims to promote greater recognition of our expertise in the ethical and bond fields where we have some of the UK’s leading fund managers. We had a record year for sales in 2006, and we have added new people to our retail sales team to allow us to meet and serve our growing customer base. We believe these will be key sectors for retail investment in 2007 as we build on our successes of last year.”